Why won’t the media use the word misogyny?

Misogyny is at the core of these smear campaigns targeting women, yet news coverage consistently avoids naming it.

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Throughout the press tour for the movie It Ends With Us, star actress Blake Lively was villainized. Once seen as a wholesome and popular celebrity, the public turned on Lively. In a seemingly endless stream of articles, tweets, TikToks, and other online posts, Lively was painted as controversial. She was deemed rude, ungrateful, a high maint…