Misogyny"Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."Semonides, seventh century B. C. Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afarand to take better aim at them for the purpose of derision. Why is this paradoxical response to women so widespread, so far reaching, so all pervasive? Misogyny, David D. Gilmore suggests, is best described as a male malady, as it has always been a