Brandon Guthier
Timothy Kubal
Sociology: Sex and Gender
November 23, 2014
This week's weekly participation question had to do with one simple word: feminist. A recent article was found that "Time" magazine was forced to apologize after it considered the word feminist to be one of the words to be banned from the English vocabulary in 2015. It was deemed to be a dirty word that had no need to be in the dictionary. In order to see what others felt, I interviewed a Fresno state student and asked what his view was on the matter. He stated that the thought on such a word like "feminist" being considered a "dirty word" by some people was absolutely "preposterous." This interviewee backed up his claim by saying that what people ought to do is focus on the history behind the word "feminist." The word itself is tied to many women's rights movements that have an important place in our American history. according to the interviewee, calling feminist a dirty word would be like calling a civil rights activist a dirty word. Both words have the same type of important historical backgrounds. The only difference this interviewee said is that one has to do with women's rights and women's suffrage and the other deals with race, but just to think that the word feminist could even be thought of as "a dirty word" is "preposterous" in the eyes of my interviewee. My interviewee concluded by saying that something that could start a turn of events would be support from a meaningful male figure. According to my respondent, people seem more likely to support somebody who sounds like a male rather than one who sounds like a female, so if a meaningful male figure were to support feminist acts and perspectives, then perhaps we could start seeing significant changes in the upcoming future.
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