misogyny

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West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

Boutcher said he believed there seems to be an "acceptance around misogyny" which he had not seen before.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

"Someone has hijacked your digital body," the philosophy lecturer at Cardiff University told AFP, adding it was an "assault" and "extreme misogyny".

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

The author says she wrote her books "to work out a lot of my feelings about rampant misogyny, homophobia, violence" in the sport of which she had been a life-long fan.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

Hillary was Barack’s opponent, which meant that I wasn’t inclined to feel especially warmly toward her just then, but I couldn’t help but admire her ability to stand up and keep fighting amid the misogyny.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama