Many, however, may remember something else entirely: Young women shouting out misogynistic abuse, as though vulgarity itself had become a badge of courage. These are fair points, but they miss a more fundamental one: Why are young women proudly using the language that patriarchy invented to humiliate women? Which is why hearing young women use these abuses as though they represent empowerment is so deeply ironic. But toxic patriarchy cannot be replaced by toxic feminism. Freedom begins when women stop mistaking the vocabulary of patriarchy for the language of liberation.