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Honestly, my first thought on seeing this headline, and the first couple of sentences of the article was "Well sexist, yes... but misogynist?" or something alon
by mindcrime 4y ago
Honestly, my first thought on seeing this headline, and the first couple of sentences of the article was "Well sexist, yes... but misogynist?" or something along those lines. I've always taken "misogyny" to mean something like "hatred (or intense dislike) of women." If that were the case, misogyny would seem to be a bit off.
But... I got interested and decided to look up the dictionary definition to see if there was something I was missing. That yielded:
mi·sog·y·ny /məˈsäjənē/ noun: misogyny - dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.
So, "dislike of" and "contempt for" don't really seem to apply. But I guess ingrained prejudice might if you equate sexualization as "prejudice against." I'm not convinced that is a valid position, but I can see a plausible path to somebody holding that position at least."
So yeah, I can definitely see how this could be interpreted as offensive, sexist, etc. I'm still less than convinced on the "misogynist" bit, but OK. Besides, as a guy I'm probably not allowed to have an opinion and now I'll be accused of "mansplaining" or whatever.