Discorso d’odio ed erosione democratica: Il vocabolario escludente della misoginia online
Hate speech and democratic erosion: The exclusionary vocabulary of online misogyny

Summary/Abstract: From incels to red-pillers, this article provides a view into the exclusionary vocabulary of online misogyny. It illustrates the anti-democratic potential of these misogynistic social media labels on two fronts: (a) for the wider research community, these labels become a way to describe, classify, and make sense of these new communicative spaces and the actors operating in them; (b) for the general public, they serve as a pathway for individuals to self-identify and affiliate themselves through cognate labels, for example as part of, in opposition to, or solidarity with particular social groups. Through these processes, the language of the manosphere normalises misogynistic concepts, stereotypical social roles, and gendered disinformation and contributes to hierarchical and exclusionary gender dynamics.

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