How to spot a misogynist

[redqueen]

2. These are 'debate' tactics that all feminists must be prepared to counter, *not kowtow to*...

let alone start to parrot such nonsense themselves out of some misguided sense of 'fairness'. Gosh, wouldn't the repigs love for us to start to treat their hairbrained, idiotic exuses for 'arguments' as if they had any validity whatsoever?

It also reminds me of Little Star's OP about misogynist language, from Shakesville, where we see this nugget of golden, shining truth:

http://www.shakesville.com/2007/11/on-bitch-and-other-misogynist-language.html

B. Not a Misogynist. How often does one have to use misogynistic language before one can be identified as a misogynist? Twenty times? A hundred? An infinite number of times, as long as he doesn't beat women? During the "cunt/whore" dust-up recounted here, Piny wrote a great post addressing this very question:

I wholeheartedly agree that there is a difference between someone who posts an ill-conceived blackface photoshop caricature and, say, Nathan Bedford Forrest. I will also happily concede that there is a difference between someone who openly identifies as feminist but casually uses misogynistic slurs and graphic misogynistic riffs to deride people–women in particular–and, say, John Knox.

This does not mean that it’s a good idea to restrict “a racist,” “a sexist,” and “a misogynist,” to the very worst of the worst. … It reduces complaints about all of these words to matters of personal affront, such that “sexist” and “cunt” are equated. “Sexist” becomes not a criticism of someone’s demonstrated beliefs, a term like “reactionary,” but an epithet as crude as the slurs to which it responds. It’s mean and unfair to call someone a sexist.

Emphasis mine.