What's the difference between misogyny and philogyny?

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.

Philogyny


Definition:

  • (n.) Fondness for women; uxoriousness; -- opposed to misogyny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Misogyny, and philogyny for that matter, seems to imply an essential state of being, perhaps an inability to change an outlook, a claim about what that person is.
  • (2) I presumed it would be something like "philogyny" and it was indeed – "fondness towards women".

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