Why are we continuing to use biased language?

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    8 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.

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      8 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.

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        8 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.