Rumination on misogyny.

[mythology]

22. Are you speaking legally or personally?

Because legally we can't presume guilt in one crime when the basis of our legal system is that there is a presumption of innocence. If you are saying in terms of being supportive of a woman in one's personal life, then yes.

I also don't know that I agree that it's enough to say that if a woman feels as though she's been the victim of misogyny that she has by default. I wouldn't say that if a man says he has been the victim of discrimination that he has been by default. Even if you discount that because you believe a man can't understand the position due to the fact that our society has been male dominated for years, you still have to deal with the fact that misogyny means many things to different people.

Take for example the recent clip from Fox News where a bunch of female hosts said that cat calling was a compliment. I think most people here would say that cat calling qualifies as boorish misogynist behavior. If we simply use any word to mean whatever the individual who is saying it means, then words becomes meaningless. Words only have meaning if they are adequately and consistently defined. Saying that it's up to any one individual's perspective is kind of pointless to me.

It stands to reason that if I could be wrong that something is misogynistic when I think it isn't, then a woman can be wrong about something not being misogynistic when she thinks it is.