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Apr 29, 2009
This week's themeWords for him and her This week's words maritorious patrocliny misogyny materfamilias pseudandry 
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with Anu Gargmisogyny
PRONUNCIATION:
(mi-SOJ-uh-nee)
MEANING:
noun:
Hatred of women.
NOTES:
The opposite of misogyny is philogyny
and its male counterpart misandry.
An equal opportunity hater would be misanthrope.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek miso- (hate) + gyne (woman).
USAGE:
"This event [the Montreal massacre of 1989] has, of course, come to mean
something more than the horrific killing of 14 female engineering students
at Montreal's L'École Polytechnique by disturbed gunman Marc Lépine, who
said before killing them and eventually himself that he hated 'all
feminists'. A ritual observance of the event every year on its
anniversary, Dec. 6, enshrines it as our most potent symbol of misogyny
and male violence against women."Judith Timson; Let's Stop This Talk of Cowards; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Apr 7, 2009 . See more usage examples of misogyny in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)
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