I think this is just the sort of claim that would be extraordinarily difficult to support.
1. The word "mysogynistic" means "reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women." This means women in general, mind, not just specific women who've treated you badly.
2. A person's age never effects whether or not they are a woman. No one starts out as a man, then later becomes a woman, due to getting older, or vice versa.
C. So the mentioning of age is not relevant to the issue of mysogynism.
This is also the kind of name-calling I was talking about in my last reply.
This is thought policing, plain and simple. You can't find anything really wrong with using these words, so you're pretending to know what the other person is thinking, to incriminate them for no misdeed.
1. I think you're confusing a misogynistic person with a misogynistic statement. Certainly a misogynistic person demonstrates a dislike, hatred, disrespect, etc. of all women. A misogynistic statement, however, is contextual and can be isolated.
2. This is reverse logic. We're not talking about ageism, so the age isn't the operative factor here. The fact that people attach adjectives to statements about women that have things to do with their appearance or other factors irrelevant to the situation is the operative factor.
C. (Your switch between numbers and letters, not mine). I respectfully disagree with your conclusion based upon the above.
Now, the thought policing thing. I think that phrase gets tossed around a lot, but it doesn't really mean anything. I'm not telling anyone they can't think as they wish. Let's take the example I used above. A woman cuts you off in morning traffic on your way to work. When you get to the office, you start ranting about "the fat bitch" who cut you off in traffic. For what other purpose would one insert the word "fat" into that sentence? Surely, your co-worker doesn't need that information to empathize with your frustration. I understand that you, as someone hearing someone make that statement, may not infer any hate or misogynism from it. I, however, would. It's not thought policing. We're all just allowed to (and to a certain extent must) make reasonable inferences about what we see, hear, and experience. When I hear a statement like that in such a context, I infer the speaker has a problem with fat people or women, or, at the very least, thinks "fat" is a very negative thing just from the context in which he/she chose to use it.
I also didn't call anyone any name.
I apologize if my statements rubbed you the wrong way (which, obviously, they did). Like I also tried express in my above posts, I like to be involved in supportive, positive spaces where there is fun and interesting conversations. I would rather carry that message forward from this and hope you do too.
And there are trolls and people you don't get along with everywhere. And they don't just look like one thing.
