Did you know that there is a specific word for worshipping your wife? There is, it's...
gyneolatry: noun; the worship of women.
What smart man would practice this art? How about these sentences...
The tenderness and heroism of his own mother left Herman with a deep sense of gyneolatry.
OR
Clarise sighed for the olden days of chivalry and gyneolatry; her jockish belcher had none of the finesse and refinement of a Mr. Darcy.
I wish that my children had a deep gyneolatic urge when they thought of their mother.
ReplyDeleteWow ~ wish I would of known this word when taking my Women's Studies classes ~ would have come in handy for writing papers. Instead I used the word "gynocentric".....vs "phallocentric"...so is the antithesis phalloeolotry...? He He :>)
ReplyDeleteOops, spelled that wrong...phalleolatry!! I am actually still amazed that I have never seen this word ~ you would think from reading hundreds of feminist literature from top scholars they would have mentioned it.....see, universities are bogus!! :>)
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