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> Given that feminism is the advocation of social and political equality twixt genders, what is extreme feminism? People who don't define it that way. Or peopl

• EliRivers 13y ago
  People who don't define it that way. Well, if we're going to just redefine words we can say anything. I hate those ultra-vegetarians insisting that static typing is the only way to go. In the face of people redefining words to mean whatever they want, all I can do is suggest that without a clear definition, communication becomes meaningless anyway because I will just redefine "feminist" to mean "a kind of blancmange popular in the former Yugoslavia", so in the absence of anything better I'll use a series of dictionaries as my first stop. In this instance, they're pretty clear on the definition.
  • brazzy 13y ago
    So who gets to make the official definition of what "feminism" means? And how do you enforce that nobody uses it any other way? Good luck with that... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription
  • kaoD 13y ago
    The goal for some self-proclaimed feminists is not gender equality, but raising women above men. They still call themselves feminists for political reasons, so some deserve the hate. The problem is real feminism got stained.
• nailer 13y ago
  The normal term is 'radical feminism'. Andrea Dworkin for example has said: "Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women" From her Wikipedia page: In the book, she argues that all heterosexual sex in our patriarchal society is coercive and degrading to women, and sexual penetration may by its very nature doom women to inferiority and submission, and "may be immune to reform".[59] Wikipedia citation for that is a b Dworkin. "Occupation/Collaboration". Intercourse. Retrieved February 14, 2013.