“misogyny?”
LOL, you must be a liberal. Rush Limbaugh invented the word as a not so subtle put down of reporters and their profession.
I am definitely not a liberal, but I have no tolerance for misogyny. Women are 52% of the population, and it’s long past time for the diminutive treatment of them to cease.
Think about your (and Rush’s) basis for the rationale for this word - “ette” is a “feminizer”, so by using it to put down reporters, of either gender, you are saying that likening someone to the feminine implies inferiority.
It’s no different than putting down a man by calling him a “pussy” - you’re saying he is “less than” because he is like a woman - that very clearly implies that women are inferior.
And that, very clearly, is inaccurate.