womanhating

womanhating

English

Etymology

woman +‎ hating

Adjective

womanhating (comparative more womanhating, superlative most womanhating)

1. Hating women.
   • 1962, Doris Lessing, quoted in Liberating Literature, page 83:

     But these attitudes in male writers were taken for granted, accepted as sound philosophical bases, as quite normal, certainly not as womanhating, aggressive or neurotic.

   • 1972, Konrad Kellen, The Coming Age of Woman Power, page 133:

     And as Germaine Greer points out, the “lay,” if finally granted, or an endless series of them, tends to make the womanhating man even more hateful and contemptuous.

   • 1993, Pearle Cleage, Deals with the Devil, page 177:

     I was walking across the campus of Howard University with my boyfriend, a possessive pre-med student, who later revealed himself to be a womanhating thug, when I saw his older sister, also a Howard student, coming toward us, arm in arm with her boyfriend who was visiting for the big weekend.

   • 2001, Nancy Auer Falk, Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives, page 203:

     My own favorite is the story of Fat Tissa, who noisily celebrates the nuns’ monk patron Ananda above the much more distinguished—but also womanhating—Mahakassapa, thus bringing down the latter’s wrath on poor Ananda.

Noun

womanhating (uncountable)

1. Hatred of women; misogyny.
   • 1984, Audre Lorde, "I Am Your Sister", in Let Nobody Turn Us Around, page 520:

     Meanwhile, womanhating as a recourse of the powerless is sapping strength from black communities, and our very lives.

   • 1993, Pearle Cleage, Deals with the Devil, page 18:

     Remember when you think about sex that men often use it to express power, control, womanhating and violence.

   • 1993, Sheila Jeffreys, The Lesbian Heresy, page 161:

     Men bond through the womanhating they display in each other's presence through jokes or sexual harassment or stories of conquest.