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Old June 20th, 2005 #86
Mr. T.H. Outis
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Originally Posted by Jim Crowe
Who is "we". I'm not sure there are too many others on this forum that would like to exclude white women.
No, but a few have agreed with me on excluding "womyn", and others would appreciate it ex post facto. I am all for mild, agreeable women who can either ignore a bit of light misogyny or compel us by their demeanor to adopt a more chivalrous attitude.

I should say again that misogyny is improperly understood by moderns. The sort of hatred we know was foreign to the Greeks; an all-consuming, passionate hatred of "Woman" would have struck them as quite insane, the moreso as their society precluded the basis for such hatred. This misein should be understood as "dislike", or aversion. So when I say misogyny, I mean - as the Greeks probably did - simply disliking women. On the other hand, you can be sure that the rough-minded Dorians, and even their sober Athenian descendants, also loved their women in measure, but they never let them into the forum—literally.