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  • Same reason that they don’t accuse anyone with any social capital of being racist. There has been enough social progress that we know that being a racist or a misogynist is a very bad thing, though not enough to draw any conclusion beyond it being a bad thing to accuse anyone of these things unless they already have a self-tattooed swastika on their forehead and are serving multiple consecutive life sentences for being a weapons-grade piece of shit. Anything less than that and it’s never racism, just racially charged economic anxiety or whatever. And along the same lines, the white college boys with bright futures who send rape threats are never misogynists, just deeply concerned about integrity in game journalism or whatever.

  • I’d say, off the top of my head, two reasons:

    1. They are avoiding litigation
    2. They don’t want to bite their own hand

  • My bet is, that because it's a really harsh word ... ok, put the pitchfork down please ... What I mean is, that it literally means "hatred of women". And like wow, unfortunately I know some assholes who disrespect women but to hate? Uff, that's something. So my guess is media avoiding it because the response would be "Well I don't hate women! Where did you get that? I sue you!"

    Side note: I remember watching on youtube an american lady living in Czechia and she said that Americans are alway exagurating their emotions. Like you're not hungry, you're STARVING! You are not tired you're EXHAUSTED! So is this the same situation? You're not disrespecting you're HATING?

  • Because all the terrible people have been working the refs. They’ve been accusing the news media of bias, so now the news media avoids words that might make them seem biased, which actually makes them biased in favor of the terrible people.

  • Because most of the population doesn't know the word, or what it means.

    Honestly, it's an 'elite' word and using it will drive viewers away. Sadly.

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