With surveys reporting that an increasing number of young men are subscribing to these beliefs, the number of women finding that their partners share the misogynistic views espoused by the likes of Andrew Tate is also on the rise. Research from anti-fascism organisation Hope Not Hate, which polled about 2,000 people across the UK aged 16 to 24, discovered that 41% of young men support Tate versus just 12% of young women.

“Numbers are growing, with wives worried about their husbands and partners becoming radicalised,” says Nigel Bromage, a reformed neo-Nazi who is now the director of Exit Hate Trust, a charity that helps people who want to leave the far right.

“Wives or partners become really worried about the impact on their family, especially those with young children, as they fear they will be influenced by extremism and racism.”

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    8 hours ago

    A not-insignificant amount of women think using the term “female” is derogatory.

    many anglophones disagree with you

    And a nonsignificant amount don’t. That doesn’t establish a generally accepted convention of the language community.

    Language is alive - it evolves, it changes.

    True: still not a conventional definition per earlier remarks.

    English words are based on common usage.

    Exactly: convention.

    Women who feel that way are part of the “language community.”

    Incomplete evidence or composition fallacy.

    whose use of English is less valid than yours.

    Nope, it’s about established convention: see earlier remarks (noticing a pattern yet?). My arbitrary opinion isn’t “valid”, either, per same remarks.

    all we’re doing is pointing out that it’s used in this way

    And plenty of innocuous instances exist as discussed before. That doesn’t make a word itself derogatory:

    If a word requires a particular message to be derogatory, then the message (not the word) is responsible.

    I don’t deny derogatory instances. Do you deny nonderogatory instances?

    Just because you don’t feel a derogatory sense from a given word doesn’t mean those that experience it that way are wrong.

    People can draw wrong conclusions about their observations, especially if they disregard conflicting observations (incomplete evidence fallacy). Observing derogatory uses while disregarding nonderogatory uses doesn’t justify any conclusion about a word’s conventional definition.

    It varies by message, so it’s not the word itself.

    get to the point you’re really saying, which is that women’s experiences and opinions are somehow worth less than yours.

    Straw man fallacy. Not implied.