[petuniasevan]

Point is, there's feminists, and there's strong women. I come from a line of strong women. No feminists. They're not the same.

[Lorianne]

I take your point, and I agree many women don't wish to call themselves feminists even though they are in principle feminists because they believe in the core value of women as autonomous human beings. It is their perogative to label themselves however they wish, but it doesn't change the core beliefs.

I respect that while I personally disagree on strategy. To me this is a sign of weakness; allowing yourself to be pushed around by a small group of women who want to usurp that name. Why abandon the hill you're on and retreat to a new hill with a different name? All this is semantics, really, the core beliefs are what matters most.

By the way there are lots of Conservative women organiziations who use the word "feminist" in the their name and subscribe to the core principles of feminsm for exactly that reason.

[weikel]

Great point.