![]() ![]() “ Women’s self-harm is being fueled by misogyny,” read a Guardian story last August. “Unfortunately, violent misogyny is nothing new in politics,” ran a 2018 CNN headline. ![]() On one end of the spectrum, the term is used to describe societal inequity, evidenced by things such as the gendered wage gap in the United States, the difficulties women have in finding adequate medical care and the career-destroying prerogatives of men like Les Moonves. It’s now unremarkable to find “misogyny” in a headline, much less a tweet. But recently, it seems to have eclipsed the gentler “sexism” and “chauvinism” in popular use. The word, which conventionally means hatred of women, was once a radical accusation. ![]()
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