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PeepinGoodArgs ,

What would you prefer and why?

Sizzler ,

There’s already a word, egalitarian.

LibertyLizard ,
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This doesn’t specify you’re discussing issues around gender though.

Personally I am not bothered by the word feminism but in general I find this type of minute language critiquing to not be very useful. I care more for the meanings and intentions behind words than their etymology. Feminism is a word that is almost universally used to mean egalitarianism regarding gender, and it has a long history and deep literature in support of that idea. For those reasons, I don’t think there will be consensus around changing it but if there was I would go along with it. As I said, it doesn’t seem like a very important issue here.

Sizzler , (edited )

Agree, it is a waste of energy to argue semantics.

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