Misogyny or what?

Karen Soole  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Nov 2016
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Misogyny or what?

NEITHER COMPLEMENTARIAN NOR EGALITARIAN
By
Michelle Lee-Barnewall
Baker Academic. 220 pages, £14.99
ISBN 978 0 801 039 577

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof faced a backlash recently following an article he wrote expressing concern about the growing intolerance of liberals.

He was accused of not addressing the horrors of ‘patriarchy, misogyny, complementari-anism, and hateful, hateful bigotry against the LGBTQ community’. The shock of this for me was the insertion of the word ‘complemen-tarian’ in this list of offensive behaviours. Are complementarians now persona non grata?

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