Oh, they’ll try. But here’s the difference between Stalin and Hitler and Trump. Stalin had to deal with Russians. Hitler had to deal with Germans. Trump has to deal with Americans.

. I may not write books, but I feel like just saying I’m a feminist is confrontational enough to make a point.

This is perfectly said! Feminism isn’t dead as long as there are people like you to carry the banner in your own way.

I’ve never considered myself an incendiary feminist. I’m not loud and in your face, I’m married and decided that children were not for me. I was the bread winner in my marriage for several years. I wanted to forge my own path in work and life that worked for me.

I use it reluctanctly too.  It begins to feel like to be a feminist you must be the perfect feminist, with the “right” opinions. The number of times even Jezebel has built someone up (i.e. Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling) and then tears them down because they don’t do the “feminist thing”. It’s fucking exhausting. Women are…

Same, and I disagree with her that women who are very retrograde are using it. The suburban mom set I know is mostly still very against the term. I actually had a friend I like a lot blurt out in the middle of a sentence, I’m not a feminist or anything, but . . . And she meant it in the “I’m not some man-hating…