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What a load of manure is Macquarie's decision to revise the meaning of the word 'misogyny'.
The origin of the word, according to the Oxford Dictionary which does not suffer from a similar colonial bias, is that it is derived from the Greek words misos or 'hatred' and gunē or 'woman'. Thus the Oxford dictionary still has the meaning of the word 'misogyny' to be 'a hatred of women'. This remains its meaning in my eyes.
A reminder that Gillard used both the words 'sexism' and 'misogynist' to describe Abbott. She was very clear about the context in which she used misogyny; Tony Abbott has a hatred of other successful women. Why else then did they focus on student politics in the 1970s in the lead up? It was a story designed to make Abbott appear like a character from a 'Clockwork Orange'.
The state of Australian political dialogue at the moment is simply unbearable. That is why that canny old fox, K Rudd, has been in the media of late asking both sides of politics to 'tone down the rhetoric'.
The origin of the word, according to the Oxford Dictionary which does not suffer from a similar colonial bias, is that it is derived from the Greek words misos or 'hatred' and gunē or 'woman'. Thus the Oxford dictionary still has the meaning of the word 'misogyny' to be 'a hatred of women'. This remains its meaning in my eyes.
A reminder that Gillard used both the words 'sexism' and 'misogynist' to describe Abbott. She was very clear about the context in which she used misogyny; Tony Abbott has a hatred of other successful women. Why else then did they focus on student politics in the 1970s in the lead up? It was a story designed to make Abbott appear like a character from a 'Clockwork Orange'.
The state of Australian political dialogue at the moment is simply unbearable. That is why that canny old fox, K Rudd, has been in the media of late asking both sides of politics to 'tone down the rhetoric'.