Quoting Anders Holmstr??m (anders.sputnik@gmail.com):
On 14/04/2014 2:31 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
If you believe in, support, look fondly on, hope for, and/or work towards equality of the sexes, you are a feminist. Yes, you are.
Superb article! Right on the money for those who try to redefine the term to suit their own argument. Thanks for posting it.
I hope you scrolled down to my thank-you feedback comment. When I came of age in 1976, I joined several political groups including the main feminist NGO in the USA, the National Organization for Women (NOW). My anecdote described an occasion circa 1984-ish or so when a really good local politician was addressing my local NOW chapter and made a very common parsing error - leading to my calling out the necessary correction from the back of the crowd, in my baritone: 'That's "_for_ Women".' It got a big laugh. Out of nostalgia, I just now looked up said pol's current doings: http://www.cetfund.org/aboutus/board/McPeak-Sunne (I notice she's one of us Scandihoovians.) More seriously, it should be noted the core meaning of the term 'feminist' is strongly contested, these days. I would generally be classed[1] as a 'Second-wave feminist' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-wave_feminism) as opposed to Third-wave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-wave_feminism) - two terms that attempt to distinguish two different camps on the basis of focus, objectives and world-view. Rather than risk being unfair in characterisation of one of those or the other, I'll let you follow the links and read how Wikipedians describe that divide. Scholar/author Christina Hoff Sommers see the divide as being, instead, what she calls 'equity feminism' vs. 'gender feminism' - though her approach is so polemical that many reject her analysis out of hand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_feminism [1] Please note that I'm not choosing sides, and prefer to assume all parties may have excellent points. I'm just saying that I am often buttonholed as a 2nd-waver. Personally, I see the influence of clique jargon at work, i.e., I fail to keep up with trendy vocabulary birdwhistling of this or any other decade, so get classed as not-one-of-us on those grounds before I say much more than 'hullo'. -- Cheers, HULK LIKE OXFORD COMMA VERY MUCH. HULK WANT TO DATE, Rick Moen BUT OXFORD COMMA GO OUT ONLY IN GROUPS OF THREE OR MORE. rick@linuxmafia.com -- @EditorHulk McQ! (4x80)