Sexism Versus Misogyny
Eliane Mitchell

20 February 2018

“厌女症”(misogyny)和“性别歧视”(sexism)这两个词经常互换使用。但它们的意思真的是一样的吗?

In an interview withVox，康奈尔大学哲学教授凯特·曼恩对这两个词进行了区分。She argues that sexism is "a body of ideas that exists to justify social relations," whereas misogynyenforcespatriarchal social relations when they come under threat. In this way, misogyny exists as the "moral manifestation" of sexism, for it punishes women who subvert male expectations and do not "serv[e] male interests in the ways they're expected to."

Read the interview here:

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/5/16705284/misogyny-trump-sexism-...

And tune into the show this Sunday for our show onMisogynywith guest Kate Manne.

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Harold G. Neuman

Thursday, February 22, 2018 -- 11:31 AM

It's funny, now that I really

It's funny, now that I really think about it, and after having lived long enough to form some of my own ideas. When I was younger, I was informed that misogynist was a term describing men who hated women. No further explanation was offered; no psychological profiling; no armchair psychoanalysis---nothing. As a young and impressionable(?) man, alone and defenseless in the world, I was content to let things stand at that. I mean, it seemed facially straight-forward; no facades, scams or mumbo-jumbo. Years later, when I was introduced to the word sexism, I began to finally wonder about misogyny and what that really meant. Now, after all these years, I offer this much, in response to Manne's distinction:

实际上，性别歧视和厌女症是兄妹关系(用一个隐喻的人工制品)，就像“社会关系”和“男权社会关系”是对同一套传统的看待和对待女性的方式略有不同的短语一样。这些都是通过“圣经”著作和宗教教条流传下来的，哦，几千年了。也许这些实际上是“道德表现”?或者，它们更有可能(而且仅仅)是男性主导社会的表现，而不考虑道德或道德的缺失?你可以用任何一种适合你学科位置的包装来包装它。但是，归根结底，人还是人，该死的鱼雷，全速前进!.．.在我看来。

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