Word of the day: misandry
I thought that the matricide episode was some sort of a Mother’s Day special. But then some awfully violent treatment of Lois came up again tonight during reruns. And it got me thinking that despite Family Guy’s frequently extreme misogyny, my delight with the show continues to increase. This got me wondering: what would this show be like without the hatred of women?
And then I thought, what’s the word for hatred of men? I looked it up: it’s “misandry”. Why don’t we know it? Perhaps because women aren’t that hateful towards men? Or if we are, we haven’t had the power in the last few centuries to exercise it?
I suppose that rather than longing for an increase in the familiarity of the word “misandry” in our culture, I should hope for a decrease in the prevalence of misogyny. Meanwhile, I can’t get enough of little Stewie. Damn men.
