feminist

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She also makes it clear that for her, feminists by definition must believe what she believes, writing on her blog, "to call [Palin] a feminist is as laughable as calling evangelicals 'Christians,'" a warm and fuzzy, open-armed double punch that she continues by crassly suggesting she'd also like to have explicit sex with Palin.

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  1. noun A person whose beliefs and behavior are based on feminism.
  2. adjective Relating to feminism.

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  • However, if being a feminist is a label that comes attached with being Team Jacob, than I'll wear that badge with pride. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • We were on a train from Kassel-which, despite the castle for which it is named, is known most for its ugly postwar-industrial downtown where Uli lives with Urte, a scholar in German feminist literature-to Marburg, a medieval university town not far from Bad Arolsen. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Well I wouldn't say it's ironic for the feminist - for the true feminist, at least. —  Veiled Glory
  • Since I generally identify as a feminist (on clear sky days, with a low bullshit count) I couldn't believe that something as important as —  feminist blogs
  • She wants to outlaw abortion -- so to call her a feminist is as laughable as calling evangelicals 'Christians.' —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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  1. French féministe, from Latin femina, woman, + -ista, English -ist.
 

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