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I disagree, because 'hate' does not have to be a violent, Knoxian diatribe, but can be much less overt, but I think we will just get very frustrated if we go on about the semantics of it. I think that one can dislike the character without being misogynistic, yes--one can dislike anybody they wish, really--but that a lot of the reasons a number of people use for disliking her or justifying that dislike are misogynist. Not all of them, surely, but I really think saying that the OP was a moron is a bit drastic. ;) In terms of feminist literary theory she didn't even say anything terribly controversial, and her points were well-addressed. And there was a conversation later on in the comments where someone with very little grasp on the text that existed outside their own head really illustrated all those points--it's like how there are plenty of people who legitimately think Obama is doing the wrong thing/not enough/too much, and then there are those who swear up and down he's a Muslim communist terrorist from Kenya who sacrifices babies to Satan and yet refuse to entertain the notion that this might be ever so slightly fueled by racist tendencies. :p