The term is used as a weapon to attack women’s rights,but we can fight back by reinforcing the potency of feminism and exposing misogynyMost people will know me as the feminazi lawyer. The Daily Mail labelled me a feminazi after I had the temerity to challenge sexism, a crime that apparently justifies invoking the terminology of national socialism. It is rather fitting that the term has gained traction among the rightwing media, or as it was popularised by right-leaning polemicist Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s (although he credits economics professor Thomas Hazlett for coining the term).
Feminazi is not an innocuous insult. According to Limbaugh a feminazi is “a feminist to whom the notable thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur”. In comparing feminists to the Nazis,Limbaugh is cynically deploying iconography of the most odious kind.
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Source: theguardian.com