Why do I hate the word Feminist?
I am a woman, I care about women’s issues, yet somehow history has made “Feminist” a dirty word and one that I am reluctant to identify with. I asked some men in my life what they thought of when they heard the word “Feminist” and their responses were all crude: bitch, man-hater, lesbian…etc. I am none of these things, I LOVE men…relatively indescriminately at times…so why can’t I come to terms with this word? Continue reading