Misogyny vs Sexist - What's the difference?
misogyny | sexist |
Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
* 1999 , Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (ISBN 0762304839), page 29:
* 1999 , Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century (ISBN 0300076045), page 84:
* 2005 , Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender (ISBN 0786420626), page 122:
* 2006', Jack Holland, '''''Misogyny : the world's oldest prejudice (ISBN 0786718234)
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Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.
As nouns the difference between misogyny and sexist
is that misogyny is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women while sexist is sexist (person).misogyny
English
(wikipedia misogyny)Noun
(en-noun)- Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.
- His misogyny , like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice;
- This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny . By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.
Synonyms
* misogynismAntonyms
* misandry * philogynyDerived terms
* misogynic * misogynist * misogynistic * misogynistically * internalized misogynysexist
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Robert and Jessica both lost all respect for their father when they found him to be sexist .