What is misogyny? What is misandry?

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I liked light pink as a kid
As an adult I like cartoons including mlp as the characters are cute and the stories are sweet. People are super judge of men who like it though so I hide it and if I ever get a gf I’ll have to get ride of all my rainbowdash stuff and fox stuff

Do the "sciences" include biology? Then the overall ratio would be probably comparable here. But I noticed a funny thing: there were not many girls studying IT at my husband's faculty, maybe 1/15 of all the students. They did well, graduated and then... none of the ended up actually coding. They got to management and designing in IT projects but not to coding.
I know actually coding girls, I do coding myself (but I have no formal IT grade) but the number is even smaller than female IT students.

I remember exactly one incident of sexism in my university life. A young female matematician had to give an invited seminar and one older guy in the audience started giving comments about her skirt and devaluating what she was saying. She got enraged, stopped the seminar, the chairman tried to silence the guy but he wouldn't stop. Then she got furious and left, the guy was asked to leave too and two professors hurried to ask the speaker to finish her lecture.
She did finish, luckily, now everybody could focus on what she was saying and it was interesting.
That guy is notorious for interrupting lectures, he is not a part of the faculty body but we don't want to give up the open doors politics because of one annoying visitor. But that time everybody hated him for ruining an interesting talk and being rude to a guest. This should never happen.

Good for her for not putting up with it. Why not simply ban that one man who keeps causing problems?

Usually he was not that bad, just asking one or two distracting questions, so he was tolerated. That time... like her pencil skirt and stilettos (not typical to a matematician but come on! It's mathematics, focus on the equations!) took the worst from him, really.

I bet he is a pervert loser.

This is exactly in agreement with my observation: if a girl likes cars and plays a pirate, it is ok. If a boy likes Barbie, he needs to hide it.

I think at least part of a reason is still how homophobic even our modern society is.

Is a man who says he likes women for their looks misogynist?
Is a woman saying she looks for an employed man misandrist?

I see these terms used here but don't exactly get what people mean using them.

why are you interested in the subject. do whatever you want and can . no worries.

It's because there are some gay people who blatantly play the "female" role.

It's a way of saying that a homosexual is "less of a man." It "offers," to the bigot, a way of emasculating and just dismissing all gay people.

I majored in Speech Pathology in college/university. I was the only male out of 45 people in my graduating class.

Quite possible.

I noticed that many women in the graduation scene and the miss candidates alike have obviously male middle names. Is it a local custom or are they their fathers' names, a bit like in Russian tradition?

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