Same over here although less as punctuation, pretty common though. I could talk for hours about the difference in misogyny though, there’s a distinct cultural difference in its use that stems from men calling themselves the word as a sort of honorific, “I’m a right nasty cword”. This is absolutely not something the americans would use it for, when they say it they explicitly mean WAHMEN whereas that usage around brit/aus was erased by its gangster slang usage. You can see it humourously in stuff [slur warning] like lock stock where it’s used self-descriptively by hard man types. I suspect going through that phase linguistically erased its usage as direct intentional misogyny in our culture.

Can you imagine someone like Tate calling themselves this word? No, absolutely not. Because to them it’s a different word entirely and this usage would make them uncomfortable. To self describe as the word they apply to weak inferior women? No. They simply wouldn’t do it. The linguistic phase we went through in Brit/Aus culture is what generated the difference of opinion here compared to the rest of the world on usage of it.