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#51658 01/03/02 08:40 PM
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Does anyone know what it is? Misanthropy seems to apply to "mankind", but not just men. Misandry (sp?) may apply, but I think I made it up.


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Philogyny.

Seriously, misandry sounds good to me. And parbly you ain' the onliest person to have made it up.


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you didn't make it up; the Greeks had a word for it.

misandry - after MISOGYNY n.

Hatred of men as a sex.
 
1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1946 Scrutiny XIII. 249 In the absence of feminine
precedents, she [sc. Beatrice] could do no better than what she very sensibly does do: follow
masculine example, and answer to their affected misogyny with the affectation of misandry.
1960 B. KAYE Upper Nankin St. xii. 232 Such women are common in..Kwangtung
Province, where there is a tradition of misandry. 1991 New Art Examiner Apr. 35/3
Although Surrealism could survive the excision of its misogyny, if SisterSerpents shed their
‘misandry’, their ideological fangs would prove artless

Hence misandrist n., one who hates men, a man-hater (esp. in feminist usage).

1978 Observer 23 Apr. 8/3 The respectable feminist equivalent for the word misogynist is
misandrist. 1993 Guardian 3 Dec. II. 4/5 Strictly speaking, neither misogynist nor misandrist
specifies the gender of the person who hates: you should be able to be both female and to
hate women.



OED2, updated


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I vote for philogyny, as in what's recapitulated by ontogyny?


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ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny... or was that juvenescence mocks hermeneutics?

-joe (antogeny recapitulates philogeny?) friday


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Nobody is allowed ontogyny here.


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I vote for philogyny, as in what's recapitulated by ontogyny?

Are we confused? I am!

...Darwin's theory, mapped a genealogical tree relating all animal life, and developed the maxim Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny....

http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col61&query=ontogeny&x=10&y=10



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Warning! This is a very stupid post, even for me.

This am purty cool about derivations of gyny, the trail reaching backwards to 'gwen':

ENTRY: gwen-
DEFINITION: Woman. 1. Suffixed form *gwen--. a. quean, from Old English cwene, woman, prostitute, wife, from Germanic *kwenn-; b. banshee, from Old Irish ben, woman; c. zenana, from Persian zan, woman. 2. Suffixed lengthened-grade form *gwn-i-. queen, from Old English cwn, woman, wife, queen, from Germanic *kwniz. 3. Suffixed zero-grade form *gw--. –gyne, gyno-, –gynous, –gyny; gynecocracy, gynecology, gynoecium, from Greek gun, woman. (Pokorny gn 473.)


The transmutations and fabrications are endless! Just think...Guineviere, Queen Guineviere could be thought of as 'Queen Queenviere"--or even "Gun Gunviere," a shot in the dark and then another one, too.

And, if misogyny, is hatred of gyny, and gyny can be shown to be derived from "gun," why, then, a misogynist could be a person who hates guns. Terrific! And hates cwns, too! And queens! And wives! And banshees! So much hatred! So little time!

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Whitewave, welcome to the board. I hope you'll excuse us for not welcoming you sooner. Good question!Pssst!Some members sign on with different names. Are you going to investigate those frauds?


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Welcome aBoard, whitewave. My husband wanted to name our daughter Guinevere, and I vetoed it in the belief that she'd get teased too much. I do love it, though.
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REED [exasperated look e]: now, dag nab it , I just finished reading your "Who wrote this poem" thread, and you didn't post there, but you did here. It's nice to see you back, but...didja ever find out the author?? I'd almost bet money it was written by a female, for what that's worth.



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