EXACTLY. Feminism itself is an initiation. It's a conscious effort and desire to have your worldview completely altered. It's like you see how gendered things are, you cannot unsee it.

THANK YOU. You've said it. Amen.

You're so right about Cordelia turning on Fiona. Now that she can supposedly touch someone and see through their bullshit.

I agree. Badness isn't always underhanded manipulation. It is when it's super intelligent and strategic, but in Fiona's case it's a little on the sloppy side (thanks, drugs) and shortsighted (Queenie can still out her.)

What we DO know is that Myrtle Snow was hiding out in New Orleans for quite some time. But all the evidence against her is circumstantial. It looks suspicious, but it never outright explains what had really happened.

This could be a case of Rashomon, with having Fiona as the unreliable, drugged-out narrator who THOUGHT she saw Myrtle Snow's face and red hair at the hospital. Remember, there was a woozy fisheye camera lens and blurred perspective on everything and anything that Fiona saw while stumbling around the hospital, looking…

What, Myrtle gets no points for saying she'd rather burn than boil? She didn't even try to run away or talk the council out of her own burning. That's pretty badass in my book. And what about her xtreme cat eye glasses and awesome triangular hair?

I'm not a fan of Shonda Rhimes' over-written dialogue, where self absorbed characters are constantly talking over one another and are pretending to be talking to each other but are really only talking to themselves with a +1 audience, but I am a fan of the idea of creating a character that is "watchable" as opposed to…

::slow clap::

YES. We don't need another watered down "Lean In," but after banging my head against the wall in frustration (wasn't it the NYT book review or some other Highbrow publication that called it "the NEW Feminine Mystique"??? - I was like, no, no this is NOT the new Feminine Mystique), I'm coming to a place where I'm okay…

Ah, this post was meant for the conversation thread at large, though I DID mean to click the discuss bubble at the top. :) Totally my mistake. Nothing gets past you, HermioneStranger.

I discern a difference between feminism and the dominant feminist conversation, just like a see a difference between the idea of democracy and the dominant Democrat conversation.

"TAKE BACK" the word feminism? Reeducate people on what it means?

The problem with fighting hard to carve out a word to identify with is that one day, when the grievances are less brutal and more subtle, it will be hard to convince popular discourse to get behind your ideologically-based issues. One decade seen as a decent cause and "the right thing to do" can in another generation…

It's funny that the above excerpt is exactly the part of the piece that I take issue with.

Throwing out feminism is exactly what truly sexist, awful people want women today to do. Let's not be that naive.

1) It's not that famous ladies are misguided, it's that Feminism with a capital F has been in dire need of a marketing overhaul.

I was facepalming the entire time reading the tweeted responses.

It's funny how the comments section of a terribly-written piece more than make up for the general terrible-ness. I am having WAY too much fun.

This is more suitable for an "It Happened To MEEE" piece on xoJane than Jez. Siiiigh. Come on. WHERE is the editing?