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The Women’s March on Washington: Pink Pussyhats—Enantiodromia
By Jean Shinoda Bolen — 2017
Until the marches, “pussy” was treated like a four-letter dirty word. What followed, as women responded to the crass reference to them as a body part, became an enantiodromia—a derogatory and shameful word became transformed into its opposite.
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