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Why Society Still Needs Feminism

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No need to let the gender essentialists and overly jargon-ridden own the term "feminist." There are plenty of gender essentialists on both sides of the divide who are all too happy to see us not own the term. It belongs to us, too.

After all, some people would see our use of the term "gender essentialist" as overly academic as well. While there is plenty of dreadful academic writing that over-uses jargon, and academic editors who allow this to persist, some of the jargon is handy enough to become part of more general usage in time. And there are fewer gender essentialists in feminism now than a few decades back.