My Theory About Why Feminism is Currently Irrelevent to Millenials

[loramin]

Originally Posted by mtb tripper the 2nd [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You are so full of shit dude. Don't tell me to read a history book. How on earth could you argue your point? Ask a linguist, or a professor of first or second wave feminism what they think of the word feminism you fucking shill.

Hope liberal arts is treating your checkbook well, loser.

I would assume English isn't your first language, if it was you would likely understand the prefix and suffix of the word FEMINISM

I was actually an English (well, Modern Literature, same diff) major ... but what you're talking about is Linguistics, not English.

Luckily however I lived with multiple linguists (and had even more in my D&D group; yes we had a character named "!xabu"). If any of them were here I promise they would tell you that words are not in fact defined by their Latin roots (prefix, suffix, or otherwise), but rather by what people think they mean. What you're referring to is commonly known as the etymological fallacy.

Getting back to the topic at hand, I think it's pretty clear what (most) first- or second- wave feminists meant when they used the word, but since you didn't like Susan B. Anthony I suspect you'd just dispute any feminist scholar I could quote, so let's let Wikipedia settle the debate. Here's the very first sentence of the "feminism" article:

Originally Posted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

P.S. Now just to be clear (so that I don't get accused of making an etymological fallacy myself [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] ), I understand "feminism" means different things to different people, and it legitimately means "man-hater" to some people. I'm not trying to dispute that, I'm just arguing that for most feminists, today or historically, feminism refers to the fight for gender equality.