“Misogyny” is a loaded word. And its prevalence in news headlines has been increasing recently.1 But so has disagreement about its meaning and its reference. “I can’t be the only man confused about misogyny,” wrote Tom Fordy in The Telegraph (London), on July 2, 2014.2 Fordy is clearly right. But men are not the only ones who are grappling with the notion. At stake is how many girls and women are grappling, in various ways, with the actual phenomenon. “Is there a misogynist inside every man?” Fordy wondered, bleakly. And are all women really subject to misogyny in some form, as was seemingly
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