Normally, I don’t consider myself much of a trendsetter, especially when it comes to the online discourse among middle-aged cosmopolitan liberal women. To the extent that these people talk about me at all, it’s usually to call me a misogynist or to praise my brief appearance on “Dancing with the Stars.” In any event, on a typical day, they certainly aren’t reading my social media feeds and watching my podcast in order to pick up new lingo. We can be certain of that much.
So I was more than a little surprised to see an article that was just published by The Guardian, entitled, “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican.” According to this article, the “womanosphere” is:
“An organized effort to create … an alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few…
