"Misogyny," & other nonsense

So now that the League's Avery verdict has been announced, the last thing we're waiting on is whether Dallas will take him back or not. I'm guess that they probably will, but with many conditions attached to it - mostly because they won't be able to trade him and they won't have the courage to buy him out. We'll see how that goes, tho.

Now, there's still one offensive issue that hasn't been addressed by all of this media blitz. I'm a little surprised that no one else has brought this up yet. And that's the rampant overuse of the word "misogyny."

Did anyone really knew what that meant before this Avery fiasco? Does any know now? Seriously, out of all the words you could use, why bring up some SAT word like that? And why use it all the frickin' time?!

I have a pretty extensive vocabulary myself, and I wasn't sure what the word meant. (It means "woman hating," in case you weren't sure. I had to look it up myself.) I mean, that's like saying something like "that discriminating shot was chronologically correct" instead of "that was a nicely done one-timer."

Seriously, if you're going to go there, then go there. Don't say things like "his misogynistic words were disrespectful." Instead of "disrespectful" go ahead and use "crass," "vulgar," "unrefined," or even "churlish." Instead of saying "his words are digusting," why not say they're "foul," "crude," "debasing," or "repugnant." If you've got to grab the dictionary, anyways, you might as well grab the thesaurus as well.

Can we finally get over the word "misogyny" and all of its derivatives? Please? Because I don't want to have to saddle up my vocabulary while writing hockey blogs. No one would enjoy reading it - although writing it might be fun at first. It'd get old quick, tho. Life is hard enough as it is without having to drag out the dictionary every other sentence. I can read scientific journals if I want to do that, thanks.

...And now back to your regularly scheduled blogging....

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