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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

598.0. "Hatred of Men?" by SKIVT::ROGERS (But Otto, what about our relationship?) Mon Dec 19 1988 20:51

I almost hesitate to enter this one, remembering how long it took the flamings 
in the "Is Man Sexist" note to die out.  However...

Is there an adjective which corresponds to "misogynous" when referring to men?  
"Misanthropic" is not correct; it implies a hatred of mankind in the general, 
non-gender specific sense.

I'm thinking of a term which could describe the novels of Alice Walker, for 
instance.

Larry

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
598.1	to start off...	WMOIS::B_REINKE	Mirabile dictu	`Mon Dec 19 1988 22:47`	1
	something like 'misandrous' ?
598.2	uurrgghh	WELSWS::MANNION	A' for the girdin' o' it!	`Tue Dec 20 1988 14:56`	4
	Someone who doesn't like the works of Alice Walker might be described as Aunty Alice...at least in Lancashire. Phillip
598.3	You got it!	WECARE::BAILEY	Corporate Sleuth	`Tue Dec 20 1988 22:12`	8
	Very good, .1! "Misandry", according to the (4-inch thick) Webster's Third New International Dictoinary, is a hatred of men. I wouldn't have looked there except for your clue! Not in the thesaurus! Cheap rag! Sherry
598.4	definitely thumbs donw on the thesaurus	DOODAH::RANDALL	Bonnie Randall Schutzman	`Wed Dec 21 1988 14:21`	5
	I never could figure out how the thesaurus became so popular. All it seems to do is give you a big Latinate word to replace the perfectly good everyday word you already used . . . --bonnie
598.5		YIPPEE::LIRON		`Wed Dec 21 1988 14:30`	2
	re .0 The exact same question was discussed in 167.11 and following replies.