When accused of misogyny for hating the wickedness in which some women indulge under the guise of women’s rites, be sure to correct the accuser. One is guilty of misoponeria, and one might be reasonably described as a misoponerist, not a misogynist, as it is the wicked that one hates, not women.This is not a neologism, but a classical Greek word. The Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon defines it as “hatred of evil,” citing its use in Hippocrates, Aristotle’s Virtues and Vices, the Septuagint, and Plutarch’s Life of Timoleon. The related verb, misoponēreō (“to hate the wicked or wickedness”), appears in Lysias, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, and again in the Septuagint. The ancients generally treated this one as a virtue rather than a slur, since hating wickedness and wicked people was considered a mark of good character, not a pathology.Note for the pedantic: the correct term for an individual is actually misoponēros, but since we are speaking English and not classical Greek, misoponerist is the more useful term.Misogynist is the term that wicked women hurl defensively at misoponerists.On a related note, St. Efan has a dark thought. Has anyone checked whether an unusual number of babies died under Lindsay Clancy’s care as a labor and delivery nurse?DISCUSS ON SGThe post The Misoponerists appeared first on Vox Popoli.