Eskelsen Weekly Participation

This week's chapter and class discussion was on the gendered media. The interviewee chose to respond to the question, "Is feminism a dirty word?" She said that the word "feminism" is overused, and that the word itself should not be banned, only the overuse of the word. She says it has become a word that gets too much attention, such as "bae" and other words that made it on the Times "2014 words to be banned" list, so it has lost the proper meaning. She says she feels that the word scares people, and if the word "feminism" was renamed to something like "gender equality," then people would be more likely to embrace it.

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Cara Eskelsen