A question about the terms sexism and misogyny...

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4. I'd heard it before then, but never really thought about it much...

I so know what you mean about not being able to spell it correctly. I always get my y's and i's in the wrong place! Living in a culture where shortening words for convenience is a part of life, I've always been why do four syllables when talking if there's something exactly the same that only takes two to get out.

Thanks to all three of you for yr replies, especially ancianita whose explanation of where the difference lies was something I went back and read twice because it made sense to me. In real life (not DU) I'm going to stick with 'he's a sexist wanker' though coz if I said 'he's a misogynistic wanker' all I'd get would be blank looks, not at the wanker part which everyone understands, but the misogynist part