Public Comment
The Difference Between Sexism and Misogyny: A Helpful Guide
When people only listen to suggestions when a man makes them that is sexism. When people only listen to suggestions when a man makes them and personally disparage the woman who made them originally, that’s misogyny.
When people have a different set of rules for men and women allowing men to speak without interruption while women are interrupted constantly or not allowed to participate, that is sexism. When people personally disparage the women who make note of this, that’s misogyny.
When men only allow the participation of women who agree to sit silently in admiration while men pound on the table and give repetitive, self-serving diatribes, that’s sexism. When they publicly disparage and question the sexual identity of those women when they leave the room, that’s misogyny.
When men in a workplace are allowed to wear comfortable, functional clothing but women are required to wear revealing, uncomfortable clothing that is sexism. When the women who raise an issue about it are publicly disparaged as frigid bitches who aren’t getting enough, that is misogyny.
When the men in a group assume that all the women in the group are dying to sleep with them, that’s sexism. When they disparage, fire, or sexually assault the women for refusing to date them, that is misogyny.
When men’s feelings or passion about an issue is treated with dignity while women’s feelings or passion about an issue is treated as a weakness which disqualifies her from discussion, that is sexism. When the people who subsequently exclude her trade exotic sexual insults about her later, that is misogyny.
