Why are we continuing to use biased language?

  • @Cryophilia
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    -38 months ago

    Academic feminism, much like any other “-ism”, has little connection to real life and what everyday adherents of the “-ism” believe or do.

    I don’t factor academic feminism into my thinking at all, because it’s so far removed from today’s reality on the ground. Feminism is what the majority of feminists make it.

    • @[email protected]M
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      fedilink
      48 months ago

      The majority of feminists are at least drawing from feminist works (even if the knowledge comes secondhand). When progress is made, it is made at the academic level.

      • @Cryophilia
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        -18 months ago

        I disagree. I think progress is largely made at the ballot box and on the airwaves. Academic feminists are not scientists in a lab discovering new things. They’re also not leaders of the movement. They’re just academics. Over time, some academic points do filter to the broader movement but it’s a trickle compared to the action of everyday feminists.