History of Feminism

calimary

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6. This is another example of how our words have been turned against us.

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 01:49 PM

Mar 2014

Not only has "liberal" been turned into a dirty word. "Feminist" has been turned into a dirty word as well. We have allowed the enemy to pervert the very meaning of it. Whether it was the load of visuals of george herbert walker bush at the CONvention, visibly curling his lip in disgust every time he almost literally spat out the word "liberal," or the derisive words that automatically are laminated onto the word "feminist" - like bra-burners, uppity women, man-haters, and worse. Guilt by association.

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Whoa-----from "Seventeen" magazine "Are You A Feminist? [View all] ismnotwasm Mar 2014 OP

Friend of mine... 45 year old guy... made an interesting point malthaussen Mar 2014 #1

In what way is feminism not inclusive? Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #2

Depends on whom you ask. malthaussen Mar 2014 #3

Feminism arose out of an unequal paradigm that still exists. ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #5

That's basically a slight against feminism to say it doesn't need to exist because of humanism. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #7

Which would tend to indicate that feminism is not inclusive. malthaussen Mar 2014 #8

I don't understand your need to have every movement cater to everyone else. That's ridiculous. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #9

But I have to reiterate, I make no such argument. malthaussen Mar 2014 #10

Many Black Feminists use the word ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #4

I was considered to not be a feminist back in truedelphi Mar 2014 #11

This is another example of how our words have been turned against us. calimary Mar 2014 #6

So many positive concepts have been tarred by media GeoWilliam750 Mar 2014 #12

+100,000,000 ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #13