Word for the day misogyny

[Josiah]

• 
  mi·sog·y·ny
  
  
  məˈsäjənē/
  
  
  noun
  
  
  dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.
  
  
  "she felt she was struggling against thinly disguised misogyny"

 

[Vivjen]

Still widely practised; unfortunately; therefore still in common use!

 

[Josiah]

I would like to think that misogyny is limited only to a relatively small population of emotional damaged men, but I'm now beginning to wonder if the remarkable expansion of women's role in western society hasn't prompted a backlash on the part of many men who feel that their status has been lowered.

 

[Vivjen]

I think you are right to a degree; but the backlash tends to come from men who always were that way inclined; now the tend to become demeaning, and controlling, IMO.
To be avoided like the plague!

 

[Josiah]

There appears to be no word (I may be wrong) comparable to misogyny which means dislike or prejudice against men. And yet the phenomenon certainly exists. I wonder why?

 

[Lon]

I would like to think that misogyny is limited only to a relatively small population of emotional damaged men, but I'm now beginning to wonder if the remarkable expansion of women's role in western society hasn't prompted a backlash on the part of many men who feel that their status has been lowered.

What a coincidence. I just watched a good doco about Susan B. Anthony last night.

 

[Josiah]

xxx

 

[AprilT]

There appears to be no word (I may be wrong) comparable to misogyny which means dislike or prejudice against men. And yet the phenomenon certainly exists. I wonder why?

The word equivalent for the female is misandry.

 

[Josiah]

Thanks April.