One of the most respected actresses of our time who advocates for equality between men and women doesn’t choose to identify as feminist and somehow she’s misinformed or talking out her ass? Okay, semantics, she said “humanism” when it was probably closer to egalitarianism that she meant, but don’t her actions mean…

Well, no. It’s been turned into a slur by the shitshow that is modern feminism.

It’s Jezebel. There doesn’t have to be an actual problem for their to be outrage.

The problem is that some people are mistakenly under the impression that feminism has a monopoly on equality.

Soggy knees are not sexism, darling.

Yeah. And I think people are willfully ignoring that humanism in its classical definition is not what people are drawing upon when they talk about it. I mean it does and it doesn’t. It’s a rather new label meaning fighting for equality between all peoples but it also means putting humans first with the intention of…

#NotAllFeminists?

This deserves all the stars. I always answer that I fully support feminism, but I’m not a feminist, because “feminist” has a lot of baggage and self-identifiers I’d rather not be defined by/grouped with.

I totally agree! If women just stopped being such slutty bitch whore twat cunts, we wouldn’t need feminism at all.

It was an elegant dodge. Let’s face it, feminism has a PR problem. Mostly because of its detractors, who have done a good job of portraying us as man haters in the media. But I also think feminism is partly to blame for why it’s now considered such a loaded term.

Feminism as it exists here and now is frequently associated with certain policy positions that someone could disagree with while still agreeing with the statement that men and women should be equal in society and currently are not.

Caitlyn Stacey is basically a modern Dworkin, yet she is revered on this site. That’s a prime example of why the word feminism has not gained acceptance. Don’t even debate that she’s not a total cunt on Twitter, cuz she is basically frothing at the mouth 24/7

Because many people don’t have the time or inclination to get a true picture of any given subject, and receive the full sum of their information on that subject from the Loudest Shouters On Tumblr or equivalent. “Oh jesus, ‘feminism’ is apparently all about man-hating harpies putting dudes down and destroying 5,000…

I’ve had the No True Scotsman argument thrown in my face enough and with enough vitriol about just what is or is not feminism (I’m no expert, but I suspect it comes down to different schools of feminism - or should I say waves?) that I’m inclined to be more charitable in response.

Eh, I’m not hurt. Many women I know (including myself) do not use the feminism label because, while they do agree with gender equality, they do not agree with all that goes on under the feminism umbrella.

I have always considered myself a feminist because I know what it means and I’ve read my feminist history, and frankly I bristle at the term these days, too. Sarah Palin called herself a feminist FFS. Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Miley Cyrus have all used feminism(ism) in various ways, all about as deep as a puddle.…

Does it ever occur to Jezebel that the reason so many women go out of their way to avoid identifying as feminist is because Jezebel, Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti, everyone who made the astrophysicist-in-a-shirt cry, everyone who got Tim Hunt fired et al have tarnished feminism & made people unwilling to be…

They want her to specifically emphasize her work for women’s equality instead of saying that she is fighting for equality overall. The word “Feminist” has been tainted by associations with people who either fight for women’s superiority or just hate men*, so some people shy away from it by not seeing it as a fight for…

Why are you surprised though? Feminist is a loaded word, because

It’s almost like, if you don’t want to do it, don’t join. If you don’t want to participate, don’t go. SJW FTW