What qualifies as a misogynistic attack? And what doesn’t?
Is every attack directed at a woman necessarily misogynistic?
So, what is misogyny? I only ask because someone who couldn’t tell the difference between a dictionary and thesaurus tried to teach Sonam Kapoor the meaning of the word in a Twitter exchange recently.
And also because I suspect that most of us are a little bit hazy on the concept. We know it exists. We know it when we see it or feel it.
But the boundaries between what is misogynistic and what is simply a gender-neutral insult seem to lie on constantly shifting sands, so it is sometimes difficult to nail down what exactly is misogynistic and what is not.
First off, let’s make one thing clear. Every attack on a woman is not misogynistic by default. For instance, if you pillory Indira Gandhi on the imposition of the Emergency and the human rights abuses that followed, you are not being misogynistic.
