Sexism is unwarranted bias or prejudice against somebody because of her or his gender. Note that "his". Men can be targets of sexism. Gay men are often the target of sexism: people are biased against them because they are men who are attracted to other men. That's sexist.
It is not, however, misogynistic. Misogyny in its simplest form is a brute feeling: hatred of women. As a brute feeling it tends to be motivating. You can be be irrationally biased against somebody or a group of people without ever acting on that bias. But it is harder to to avoid the action-provoking effects of brute feelings. Fear, for example, makes people take flight or fight. Misogyny is a species of hatred. Hatred produces violence, contempt. (With regard to gays, the right analogy might be to homophobia - a fear of gays so intense that it leads people to shun them or try to rid them from their environment.)
The opposite of sexism is to take account of sex or gender only when sex or gender is appropriate: for example for people with male genitals, health insurance should cover prostate exams; for people with female genitals health insurance should cover PAP smears.
When people unthinkingly equate sexism and misogyny it suggests that due to the prevalence of misogyny in the background, so to speak, they immediately assume that chauvinism on the basis of gender always takes the form of assuming the superiority of men to women. But one can be a female chauvinist, and assume that women are always better than men. And one can be a chauvinist about people of any race or sex or gender orientation without hating anybody.
But hatred of the sort that leads to calling successful women "ho's" or beating up women or groping them - figuratively or literally -- that's misogyny. And it is what 51 Percent is going to combat.
If one bears in mind the etymology of the word misogyny it helps to keep it distinct from sexism. The word misogyny comes from the Greek and first appeared in English in the 17th century. The word sexism comes from the 1970s, via the the 19th century word, chauvinism, which referred to blind patriotism in its original French root. In other words, chauvinism is unthinking preference or allegiance to one group for no warrant; misogyny is hatred of women.
I do not mean to suggest that people never conflate the meanings of the two words, misogyny and sexism. But I think the conflation is misleading and should be resisted, because the phenomena of misogyny and sexism are different. Sexism is more equal opportunity; misogyny more dangerous.
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