Throughout March, I was hit over the head with social media posts attacking Chappell Roan, an LGBTQ popstar who’s often labeled as ‘difficult’ or ‘aggressive.’ It’s transparently misogynistic: young women are always ‘difficult’ when they set boundaries or ask for respect, while male artists face none of the same backlash—even after committing abuse.
Predictably enough, a BuzzFeed report showed that many of the users behind sexist content about Chappell were bots or social media accounts quite literally created to drive the online smear campaign. Don’t get me wrong—social media is a sexist cesspool. But these public orgies of misogyny aimed
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