Sexism v Misogyny

What is the difference between sexism and misogyny

Google definition of sexism: prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.

Google definition of misogyny: dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.  In Australian dictionary: entrenched prejudice against women

  

                                                                                               

MISOGYNY

SEXISM

       

According to *Naomi Wolf: A public figure who tolerates the systemic under-prosecuting of rape is guilty of serious and unforgivable sexism; making rape jokes or explaining away the damage of rape in public as Congressman Todd Akin did recently recently in the US, or legislating, as over a dozen US states are now doing, transvaginal probes that are medically unnecessary, simply to sexually punish women for choosing abortion – well, that is misogyny.

*Naomi Wolf author of The Beauty Myth,  Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, and others is a graduate of Yale University and New College, Oxford. 

 

 According to *Rahila Gupta: Sexism is when men let you jump the queue and get on a crowded bus first in Delhi (to confuse matters further, that's called chivalry) and then the poor dears, willy nilly, get crushed up against you as their hands "accidentally" cup your breasts in a frenzy of misogyny.

*Rahila Gupta is the  author of Enslaved: The New British Slavery as well as a journalist. 

According to *Bidisha:  When boarding a flight from Geneva to London a man followed his wife on to the plane and said at the top of his voice to her, "The plane went down when you got on it," which prompted gasps from everyone around including the cabin staff, while he smirked and the woman looked like she wanted to drop in to a hole in the ground and die. That's sexist.
On a train from York to London a woman was talking on the phone in the quiet carriage. A couple near me got cross. "I'll go and tell her it's the quiet carriage," said the man to us all nearby. "Ooh, don't," muttered the wife. "OK then, I'll go and punch her," he said. That's misogynist.

*Bidisha is an author, contributor to The Guradian, and a regular guest on BBC shows Front Row, The Review Show, and The Word.

According to *Nicholas Kristof:   Sexism, discriminatory attitudes toward males and females, and misogyny, the hatred toward women.  Maybe the distinction between sexism and misogyny is artificial. Wife-beating may be rooted in the male desire to control a mate and ensure that she passes on his genes and no one else’s, and such behavior isn’t driven by hatred of women in the way that lynchings were driven by racism or that attacks on gays were driven by homophobia. But for the woman with multiple broken arms, that may seem a meaningless distinction.

*Nicholas Kristof is an author and a columnist for The New York Times since 2001and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1990 and 2006.

According to *Kimberle Crenshaw:  I will briefly define misogynoir here: Term coined by Moya Bailey, its etymology = hybrid word, -e not currently used on the end. From the word misogyny: miso-: hater, gyn-: woman, noir: Black. Specific anti-Black misogyny. Race and gender, together, intersectionally are factors. This type of misogyny has a binary with White women (who still face general misogyny) where White women represent “good” womanhood and Black women do not or has hierarchical levels that include other women of colour, but only insofar as Black women are placed at the bottom because of anti-Blackness. (Crenshaw) 

*Kimberle Crenshaw is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School.

Reference:
Sexism and Misogyny: What’s the Difference? (2012). The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/17/difference-between-sexism-and-misogyny

http://www.theguardian.com/profile/naomiwolf

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 http://www.theguardian.com/profile/bidisha?guni=Article:in%20body%20link

Kristof, Nicholas. (2008). "Misogyny Vs Sexism. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/misogyny-vs-sexism/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

 http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/kendal-washington-white-interim-dean-of-students-university-of-arizona-hold-dean-saxton-accountable-for-promoting-hatred-towards-women

Crenshaw, Kimberle. (2013). Black Men and Patriarchy, Intraracial Sexism and Misogynoir. Gradient Lair. Retrieved from  http://www.gradientlair.com/post/64757627822/black-patriarchy-intraracial-sexism-misogynoir-essay-lis

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