Monday, 4 July 2011

My favorite feminist word is not "patriarchy" or "privilege." It is not "sisterhood" or "womyn." It is not even "respect" or "consent."

My favorite feminist word is "person."

I've been trying to use it whenever gender isn't relevant to the story. "There was this person walking down the street..." "I'm reading a book by a person who..." "There's a person I work with..."

"Man" and "woman" shouldn't be nouns. They should be adjectives. Man person and woman person. And when none of that has anything to do with anything, person.

Feminism is the radical notion that everyone is people.

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