Patricia Posner: "When Did 'Woman' Become a Dirty Word?"

There's an easy answer Posner doesn't give: since progressives took over the culture.

   Thing about progressivism is: it's a fusion of bad philosophy, bad politics, and bad social theory. And part of the badness of its philosophical side: it's Lysenkoist and opposed to not just free expression but even free inquiry. It's also radical and totalitarian. This radioactive stew of errors produces a set of ideas that are radically at odds with reality, but which are imposed upon society by the force of frenzied radicalism, including political correctness and "cancel culture." Which is to say: opposition to or even critical discussion of the insanity is met with shrieking character-assassination campaigns against the unbelievers.