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Used, Mentioned, or Condemned? A Controlled Contrast-Set Diagnostic for the Use-Mention Distinction in Code-Mixed Hinglish Misogyny Detection

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 6, 2026 · UTC

Lexicon-driven misogyny detectors cannot, by construction, distinguish a slur used against a woman from the same slur mentioned in counter-speech ("don't call her that") -- yet exactly this distinction governs whether moderation protects or silences the people discussing abuse. We study this problem in code-mixed Hinglish and make three contributions. First, we diagnose two evaluation artifacts on a publicly available redacted corpus: category-encoding anonymization placeholders leak the label (a no-learning rule scores 1.000), and even after they are neutralized misogynistic and benign commen

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