Official Recognition that Hatred of Men is REAL

Yes, it  belongs to the mother tongue now. I mean that the Official Bigwigs of Erudition who write the Oxford English Dictionary have deigned to rubberstamp the word MISANDRY as a regular, real part of the English language.

But hey, they're just doing their job as lexicographers. They have kept an eye on things, and they have noticed that a lot of people are using this word. And with upstanding professionalism they have made note of it, recognizing what ought to be obvious to anybody, that dictionaries don't create language, but language creates dictionaries.

In other words, that a word becomes a word the minute it pops out of somebody's mouth. And that the only criterion for including a word in a dictionary is that enough people use it often enough that it merits the expenditure of ink and paper.

Non-inclusion doesn't make a word any less of a word, of course, but its presence in the dictionary can powerfully silence people who do entertain such superstitions.

What goes for new words, goes equally for definitions of existing words. Thus, you will see many words with more than one definition. And when enough people start using a word in some new way, the alert lexicographer will make note of that usage and add it to the list. So, for example, the word "feminism" might be defined as "the project to increase the power of women", or even as "female supremacism" if people in sufficient numbers started using it that way. Mind you, not that you must wait for the lexicographers to catch up. But it's right handy when they eventually do.

So, here is the OED definition of misandry:


http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/misandry?q=misandry

Please note, however, that the Learned Bigwigs got something wrong. They claim that the word 'misandry' dates from the 1940s, but in fact it has been noted as early as 1878 (in English), and  the word misandric (also in English) as early as 1871. 

And the word misandrie (in German) has been traced clear back to 1803.

See the following at the Unknown History of Misandry blog:

http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/search?q=misandry