The Term 'Charo': New Weapon of Digital Misogyny in Spain?

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The Women's Institute, an autonomous body attached to the Ministry of Equality, has...

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The use of the word "Charo" or "ok Charo," which originated in the digital sphere as a meme, has become entrenched as a mechanism of digital misogyny that delegitimizes and silences women on social media and acts as a generational barrier to the public participation of younger women, according to a report by the Women's Institute. The report, "Analysis of Misogynistic Discourse on Social Media: An Approach to the Use of the Term 'Charo' in the C…

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A study reveals that the term acts as a mechanism of "despreciation" towards women who occupy public spaces from feminist positions The PSOE brings together those responsible for Equality to deal with the complaints to Salazar