Something making you feel bad isn't the same as Misogyny [View all]

[Bonobo]

Misogyny is a cultural attitude of hatred for females because they are female.

This OP should be read as a plea to stop using the word wrong.

We should make a list of things that are NOT misogyny but are actually just things that "make people feel bad" so we can get a bit clearer.

Granted, some of these things might be borderline "sexist" in some cases, but "sexism" is not synonymous with "misogyny" and frankly the phrase "misogyny" is thrown around so completely frivolously that it seems to have lost its meaning.

I'll start:

-Finding performance art in which a woman knits with menstrual-blood stained yarn.
-Watching pornography
-Suggesting that men bear their own unique burden in society by virtue of being male.
-Taking offense at statements like "All men are potential rapists"
-Laughing at people who think that all penis-in-vagina sex is rape.
-Looking at women lustfully
-Opening doors for women
-Warning women not to walk in parking garages alone late at night
-Even denying that "rape culture" exists is NOT misogyny (it just makes you "feel" bad)
-Saying "don't throw like a girl" (again, the whole "feel bad" thing, but not HATRED of women)
-"Objectifying" (whatever that means) -also not the same as hating women so NOT misogyny.

Etc, etc. This list would be huge.