You know that trope about the expansion of or meaning-shift in the word “misogyny”? The one that says it’s being used to mean the same thing as sexism? I don’t use it that way, but I’ve found an example that, I think, does.
It’s a petition to the White House asking the Obama administration to
Stop using the “wives, mothers, & daughters” rhetorical frame that defines women by their relationships to other people.
The petition is hopeless of course, but it’s a good point. But I think the word “misogyny” doesn’t belong. [Read more…]