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The term 'misogynist'


KEV67

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Interesting to me, if not to you, I was reading letter 40 (only 497 to go) of Clarissa by Samuel Richardson, 1748, when Clarissa uses the word 'misogynist' in relation to a Sir Oliver. Sir Oliver who? The notes do not say. Mr Solmes, a fictional character, used his arguments, so presumably Sir Oliver was a real person. I thought the term 'misogynist' was a recent lab release from a social science faculty. When I first started hearing it, I looked it up and it meant someone who hated women, although now it seems a synonym for 'sexist'.

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