<p>British justice minister Dominic Raab on Wednesday came under fire after saying that "misogyny is wrong, whether it's a man against a woman or a woman against a man".</p>.<p>His confusion about the definition arose during an interview with the BBC in which he was asked why the government rejected calls for misogyny to be made a hate crime in the wake of the murder of London woman Sarah Everard.</p>.<p>"If you don't know what misogyny is then you're never going to find it," Nazir Afzal, who has prosecuted grooming gangs and celebrity sexual abusers, wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p>Misogyny is hatred aimed at women, while misandry targets men.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/right-in-the-middle/round-table-of-misogyny-978905.html" target="_blank">Round table of misogyny</a></strong></p>.<p>"What I meant was... if we are talking about, effectively, insults with a sexist basis, I don't think that criminalising those sorts of things will deal with the problem that we have got at the heart of the Sarah Everard case," Raab said.</p>.<p>"Criminalising insulting language -- even if it's misogynistic -- does not deal with the intimidation, the violence and the much higher level of offence and damage and harm that we really ought to be laser-like focused in on," the former foreign secretary said.</p>.<p>The government on Tuesday announced an independent inquiry into "systematic failures" in policing, after an officer serving in London was jailed for life for Everard's kidnap, rape and murder.</p>.<p>The death of the 33-year-old marketing consultant rocked the country and led to an outcry over violence against women and girls in Britain.</p>.<p>Wayne Couzens, 48, who served in the Metropolitan Police diplomatic protection unit, falsely arrested Everard as she walked home from a friend's house, on the pretence that she had broken coronavirus restrictions in place at the time.</p>.<p>Raab was speaking at his Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester, northwest England, shortly before Prime Minister Boris Johnson's keynote speech.</p>
<p>British justice minister Dominic Raab on Wednesday came under fire after saying that "misogyny is wrong, whether it's a man against a woman or a woman against a man".</p>.<p>His confusion about the definition arose during an interview with the BBC in which he was asked why the government rejected calls for misogyny to be made a hate crime in the wake of the murder of London woman Sarah Everard.</p>.<p>"If you don't know what misogyny is then you're never going to find it," Nazir Afzal, who has prosecuted grooming gangs and celebrity sexual abusers, wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p>Misogyny is hatred aimed at women, while misandry targets men.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/right-in-the-middle/round-table-of-misogyny-978905.html" target="_blank">Round table of misogyny</a></strong></p>.<p>"What I meant was... if we are talking about, effectively, insults with a sexist basis, I don't think that criminalising those sorts of things will deal with the problem that we have got at the heart of the Sarah Everard case," Raab said.</p>.<p>"Criminalising insulting language -- even if it's misogynistic -- does not deal with the intimidation, the violence and the much higher level of offence and damage and harm that we really ought to be laser-like focused in on," the former foreign secretary said.</p>.<p>The government on Tuesday announced an independent inquiry into "systematic failures" in policing, after an officer serving in London was jailed for life for Everard's kidnap, rape and murder.</p>.<p>The death of the 33-year-old marketing consultant rocked the country and led to an outcry over violence against women and girls in Britain.</p>.<p>Wayne Couzens, 48, who served in the Metropolitan Police diplomatic protection unit, falsely arrested Everard as she walked home from a friend's house, on the pretence that she had broken coronavirus restrictions in place at the time.</p>.<p>Raab was speaking at his Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester, northwest England, shortly before Prime Minister Boris Johnson's keynote speech.</p>