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		<title>Misdefining misogyny</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I looked up misogyny on onelook after seeing what I considered an inadequate definition somewhere.  I found a glut of inadequate definitions.  I think misogyny, and in fact all miso- and -phobia words, need more attentive corpus analysis in order to reflect the full spectrum of their use.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I looked up <a href="http://www.onelook.com/?w=misogyny">misogyny</a> on onelook after seeing what I considered an inadequate definition somewhere.  I found a glut of inadequate definitions.  I think misogyny, and in fact all miso- and -phobia words, need more attentive corpus analysis in order to reflect the full spectrum of their use.</p>
<p>Consider:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00311727">OED</a>:      <!--start_def-->Hatred or dislike of, or prejudice against women.</p>
<p><a href="http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861630481">Encarta:</a> <span class="ResultBodyBlack"><strong>hatred of women: </strong></span><span class="ResultBody">a hatred of women, as a sexually defined group</span></p>
<p><span class="ResultBody"><a href="http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/misogyny?view=uk">COED</a>: hatred of women.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&#038;va=misogyny">M-W</a>: a hatred of women</p>
<p><a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=51059&#038;dict=CALD">CALD</a>:<span class="cald-definition">the hatred of women </span><span class="cald-definition">[misogynist: a man who hates women or believes that men are much better than women]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Misogyny">Wiktionary</a> 1. The <a title="hatred" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hatred">hatred</a> of, or <a title="pathological" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pathological">pathological</a> <a title="aversion" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aversion">aversion</a> to <a title="women" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/women">women</a> 2. Discrimination against women</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&#038;matchent=misogyny&#038;matchtype=exact">Wordsmyth</a>: intense dislike of women</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/61/95/M0339500.html">AHD</a>:  Hatred of women:  <em>“Every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny”</em> (Robin Morgan).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/misogyny">RH</a>: hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women. Cf. <strong><span class="sans">misandry.</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=misogynist*1+0&#038;dict=A">CDAE</a>: [-ist] <span class="def-contents"></span><span class="def-definition">someone, usually a man, who hates women or believes that men are much better than women. [-y example: </span><span class="def-contents"></span><span class="def-example"> <em>There's a disturbing misogyny in his films.</em>]</span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=misogyny">1913 Webster</a>: Hatred of women <em>Johnson</em></p></blockquote>
<p>I think the A++++  WOULD CONSULT AGAIN here has to go to AHD just for the illustrative quotation.  Just to make sure I wasn&#8217;t confused about &#8220;hatred&#8221; I looked that up, too, but it hasn&#8217;t really evolved to mean anything about systematic societal oppression or ideologically enforced inequality.  So take misogyny in the OEC: (the first column of numbers is a count of co-occurrences; the second is a measure of salience that I believe <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk">Sketch Engine</a> bases on several measures.)<br />
<img alt="misogyny - oec - sketchengine" id="image29" src="http://www.mdcclv.com/log/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/misogyny.png" /></p>
<p>Some of the corpus collocations are clearly hate-based: vicious, extreme, violent, bigotry, antisemitism, rape.   But many of them are clearly things on a larger scale: institutionalize, rampant, casual, usual; materialism.  And some of them are more individual in nature, but not essentially hateful: objectification, machismo.  It is these latter two categories that are largely unaddressed by the dictionaries that are easy to cut and paste.</p>
<p><img id="image30" alt="misogyny - oec - collocations" src="http://www.mdcclv.com/log/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/misogyny-colloc.png" /></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t mean to argue that misogyny is not <a href="http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/patriarchy-blaming-the-twisty-way/men-2/">hatred</a>, nor that most people who speak of misogyny don&#8217;t believe that it&#8217;s hatred.  But &#8220;misogyny&#8221; spends time in the company of words that are not really covered by weirdness like &#8220;pathological aversion&#8221; and &#8220;intense dislike&#8221;.  The connection with &#8220;objectification&#8221; shows it fairly well, as does &#8220;inequity&#8221;.  Xenophobia, homophobia,  &#8212; these words are not really suggestive of &#8220;intense dislike&#8221; or &#8220;irrational fear&#8221;, but with learned behaviors, nation-scale phenomena, What&#8217;s Wrong With This Country.  &#8220;Materialism&#8221; is not intense or irrational; &#8220;misanthropic&#8221; is closely associated with &#8220;genius&#8221;, &#8220;intelligent&#8221;, &#8220;comic&#8221;, &#8220;muse&#8221; &#8212; not really qualities of a &#8220;person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society&#8221;.  It looks like a good many of these miso-/-phobia words are often defined very skimpily, every dictionary&#8217;s essential &#8216;evidence&#8217; being nothing more than the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy">etymology</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s necessarily appropriate for every dictionary to define misogyny as an epidemic, sometimes unconscious ideology that oppresses or subordinates women to men; but compare with the nuanced definition of &#8220;slavery&#8221; in NOAD:</p>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px" class="noad_specUse"><span class="noad_hw">the state of being a slave [<em>sc.</em> a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them].</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px" class="noad_specUse">• the practice or system of owning slaves. • a condition compared to that of a slave in respect of  labor or restricted freedom. •  excessive dependence on or devotion to something.</div>
<p>This is a reasonable starting point for better definitions of &#8220;misogyny&#8221;, &#8220;homophobia&#8221;, etc.: in the language there are all sorts of ways to be a slave or a misogynist beyond being the legal property of someone, or having any explicit/conscious hatred, aversion or dislike.  Simplistic definitions lead only to oversimplistic misunderstanding.</p></div>
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		<title>spot-on spam subject</title>
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		<title>Yet Another Unfortunate GMail Ad: &#8220;Slanty letters&#8221; ==  かんたんな英作文で メキメキライティング能力向</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure the reason this ad for an English language course was put across the top of this message was because the body talks about an English course: all the other ads are for language resources. But it is an unfortunate juxtaposition, at least for polysemaniacs like me. [Click to enlarge]

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure the reason this ad for an English language course was put across the top of this message was because the body talks about an English course: all the other ads are for language resources. But it is an unfortunate juxtaposition, at least for polysemaniacs like me. [Click to enlarge]<br />
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<p>Maybe the real shocker here is that I haven&#8217;t turned off that little advertisement area.</p>
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