Merriam-Webster is trolling the Trump administration. Again.

[kpete]

Link to tweet

Lookups for feminism spiked on February 23, 2017, following an appearance at the annual CPAC conference by Kellyanne Conway, who both called for equal pay for women and said that she didn’t identify herself as a feminist:

It's difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male and it certainly is very pro-abortion, in this context.

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Conway then offered her own definition of feminism:

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices...I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances. That's really to me what conservative feminism, if you will, is all about.


Merriam-Webster:

Feminism is defined as both "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities" and "organized activity in support of women's rights and interests." It entered the language in 1895, at a time when efforts for women's political equality were becoming organized and widespread in England and the United States.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/conway-its-difficult-for-me-to-call-myself-a-feminist-20170223

[miyazaki]

1. Was Medusa a feminist? n/t

[KittyWampus]

3. I am almost certain if we google that question someone will have done that thesis already:

Hold on while I check....

Oh, yeah. Lots of stuff.

[miyazaki]

4. Oh do tell... n/t

[Panich52]

2. Repub ideologues are masters of Orwellian spin.

English, & proper definitions have especially been prob f/ Trump cult. Latest example was CPAC speaker bitching about "left-wing fascists."

[mnhtnbb]

5. Oh, yes, Kellyanne, your choice to work for a misogynistic, pussy-grabbing, rapist

was such a bold choice as a conservative feminist! Bully for you!

[erpowers]

6. What Happens When You Do Not Have Choices

The problem with Conservative Feminism is the fact that it fails to realize that there was a time when women did not have choices. It also fails to acknowledge how those choices were gained and who fought for the right of women to have those choices. There was a time when even if women were smarter than men they were not always allowed into the same colleges and schools as men. Even when women were allowed into those school women were discouraged from attending those schools so men could attend them. Brooksley Born, who once lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, recounted the story of when she told a college counselor that she wanted to go to law school. The counselor told Born that she should instead go to nursing school because if she went to law school she would be taking a place from a male student.

How much choice does a woman have if she had no control of her money? How much choice does a woman have if she cannot inherit her parent's fortune? How much choice does a woman have if she does not have the right to vote? How much choice does a woman have if she is not allowed to go to school, or is barred from certain schools, especially advanced schools? How much choice does a woman have when someone claims she is not smart enough to perform a task because she is a woman? Yes, women have all those choices today. However, there was a time when women did not have those choices. The women who came before today's women fought for modern women to have choices. Without someone fighting for our right to have choices we might either not have choices, or we might have less choices.