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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

I don't like that word: feminist.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.