What's the difference between misogynist and misogyny?

Misogynist


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman hater.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Oliver on Donald Trump: ‘A Klan-backed misogynist internet troll’ Hang on a minute: who am I as a Briton to interfere in the internal affairs of a foreign country?
  • (2) He’s a misogynist, and he’s phobic of everyone who isn’t like him,” said Juliet Herman, a 52-year-old strategist.
  • (3) And the presence of actively engaged men was another sign of what seems to have been new and transformative this year – which is key, because changing the world for women means changing what is acceptable and admirable among men, where misogynist behaviour has long been, in some circles, something to boast about.
  • (4) Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West since 2015, has described misogynistic attempts to smear her by local party members.
  • (5) Cubitt, who has defended the show against criticism before, told Mackichan: “I don’t know how you could possibly argue The Fall is misogynistic .
  • (6) And with Trump– the most overtly misogynist politician in history – in office, we have our work cut out for us.
  • (7) And though films like Scott Pilgrim can feel positively regressive in their sexual politics, BTTF is not misogynistic.
  • (8) Women’s protests against this have featured dancing, singing, miniskirts and placards proclaiming: “My body, my money, my closet, my rules.” Despite the repressive government, which has been responsible for homophobic as well as misogynistic new laws, grassroots resistance is growing .
  • (9) Decency is one of those lines.” Erickson also told reporters: “I don’t want to put words in [Trump’s] mouth and I hate using the label misogynist because I think its used too much but he’s suggesting a woman as a lady asked him a question and did so because it was her time of the month.
  • (10) If you follow Twitter regularly, it's easy to believe that many of our fellow citizens are cruel, mean, misogynist and foul-mouthed.
  • (11) In the often misogynistic climate that exists online, anything with the word women in the title can attract hostility ranging from the snide to the offensive, but Mayer said the worst abuse has come from Radio 4 fans.
  • (12) May wasn’t emeralds; it was the massacre of six people in Isla Vista , California, by a young misogynist and the birth of #YesAllWomen, perhaps the most catalytic in a year of powerful protests online about women and violence.
  • (13) The left would call it misogynist “mansplaining” if a man talked that way to a woman.
  • (14) When women can be misogynist trolls, we need a feminist internet | Polly Toynbee Read more “We have got a very real problem with online abuse in this country,” she said.
  • (15) Under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart frequently published stories with misleading and partisan bent, often with racist and misogynistic tones .
  • (16) Trump may say misogynist things, but other Republican candidates do them | Jessica Valenti Read more Indeed, Trump appears to have successfully endured a controversial weekend after many believed he implied that Kelly asked tough questions during the first Republican debate because she was menstruating.
  • (17) Peter Slipper's resignation followed a heated debate in parliament during which the prime minister, Julia Gillard , and the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, traded insults over the use of misogynistic language in politics.
  • (18) Her strategy is likely to involve attack ads that highlight Trump’s misogynistic and xenophobic statements and question whether his temperament is suitable for commander in chief.
  • (19) When I handed in my notice, I was told there was no budget to give me a pay rise, yet the guy who replaced me (and had less experience) was offered £10k more.” Lipstick and lap-dancing Beyond structural gender disparities, many respondents complained of a “macho, misogynist culture”, with bosses organising events at strip clubs, and frequent commentary on women’s bodies the norm.
  • (20) That “trollumnist” Mark Latham, that “misogynist”, “venal”, “crazy-eyed moron” whose views should be “rejected and dismantled and kicked into the gutter where they belong” has resigned from the Australian Financial Review.

Misogyny


Definition:

  • (n.) Hatred of women.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For me, this is what needs to change - we need a cultural shift in our attitudes and behaviours and that needs to see all of us standing up and calling out harassment and misogyny, whether it is in the street or the workplace, to erode that normalisation that makes perpetrators feel safe doing it again and again.
  • (2) And as the world adjusts to a Trump presidency there is also a danger that his misogyny and virulent anti-immigrant narrative will become normalised,” she added.
  • (3) Australian PM Julia Gillard cuts her opposite number, Tony Abbott, down to size, after Abbott criticised another MP for misogyny "Stop talking about how you care about people.
  • (4) From flippant offensive comments about women to serious allegations of assault from those he has encountered through his relationships and career, Trump stands accused of misogyny to a degree that has not been seen in mainstream American politics for decades.
  • (5) It not only stigmatizes the mentally ill – who are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it – but glosses over the role that misogyny and gun culture play (and just how foreseeable violence like this is) in a sexist society.
  • (6) Feminists, myself included, focused on the killer’s misogyny, his furious sense that women owed him something, that he had a right to whatever pleasure and adulation they could deliver.
  • (7) Those who tell you the left has to somehow “reconnect” with people whose minds are full of white supremacy and misogyny must finish the sentence.
  • (8) It is Daryush Valizadeh, also known as Roosh V, self-styled leader in the “neo-masculinity” movement , author of a suspicious stack of sex travel guides and headline-hunting nano-celebrity in the world of ritualised internet misogyny.
  • (9) A court deposition of remarkable misogyny didn’t even get him suspended .
  • (10) Their high-profile campaigns – to have women on banknotes , challenge online misogyny and banish Page 3 , for example – though necessary and praiseworthy, do not reflect the most pressing needs of the majority of women, black and minority-ethnic women included.
  • (11) Gillard hit back, saying she "would not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man [Abbott].
  • (12) How Richard Spencer's home town weathered a neo-Nazi 'troll storm' Read more The Daily Stormer, which takes a millennial, meme-driven approach to racism, misogyny and virulent antisemitism, also spun-off 31 active “real-life, on-the-ground clubs” across the country, the law center analysts found.
  • (13) If he was to add that women are only good for a fuck and should be confined to servicing men and their children, it is misogyny.
  • (14) Similarly, Laura Bates's recent article on victim blaming should act as sufficient retort to anyone who thinks police chief KP Raghuvanshi's advice that women should carry chilli powder to prevent rape is symptomatic of a specifically Indian brand of misogyny.
  • (15) What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and not have gender nestled in its beating heart – especially in a country replete with misogyny, religious fundamentalism (of both the Islamic and Christian kind) and which for 60 years has chafed under a hybrid of military-police rule?
  • (16) "I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man, I will not.
  • (17) Mirrors (2016) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Over plaintive piano and a slurry of Trump misogyny, a group of young girls comb their hair before a question is posed.
  • (18) Long before the Syria vote, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper complained of misogyny, and not just from the Mail , which was more interested in Kendall’s “lithe figure” than her politics.
  • (19) That these two possibilities could be expressed in one breath showed that the misogyny of the average Afghan family was perhaps not vastly different from that of a Taliban state.
  • (20) We just saw Hillary Clinton deflect misogyny and hatred and sexism at every turn during her campaign from the guy who won, no less – but they are still in many ways so protected and favored and privileged.

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