There have been some great triumphs, such as the Women's World Cup - and then there have been some hugely retrograde steps, like Donald Trump's numerous sexist remarks including the denigration of Hillary Clinton on the basis of her gender rather than her policies.
There is a whole education industry that is flourishing because it is built on the denigration of public schoolteachers.
The minister utterly rejects and finds repugnant the denigration of any minority on the basis of their sex, race, sexual orientation or beliefs".
Trump struggled to defend himself against attacks by Clinton over his denigration of women, insensitivity on race relations and an assertion that he avoided paying federal taxes for years.
There's been less discussion though, on the way that Harley's transformation into the Joker's boy-toy homicidal sexpot is based on a denigration of, and nervousness about, her professional accomplishments.
Tunisians dealt a sobering blow to the remnants of Ben Ali's regime and to the old and new parties that based their entire electoral campaign on the denigration of the Islamic party, Ennahda.
With Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre refusing to budge on his denigration of the Milibands this week, it does seem as if the only way to get action is to contact the owner directly.
In my nearly 40 years as a book editor and publisher, I never witnessed the denigration of a book on the basis that it had been praised by eminent writers and historians.
On Monday, a panel of more than a dozen judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit will consider whether to leave in place the Maryland decision siding with challengers who say the order violates First Amendment prohibitions on government denigration of a particular religion.
As for Mr. Felder's public denigration of Donna Hanover on Mother's Day weekend, she traces it to the other side's retraction of an order-of-silence agreement: "I don't think he was belittling women, he was belittling the spouse of a client".
