PC my ass.

Our peoples at In These Times featured “A Politically Correct Lexicon” where they go over a number of terms, and experts give their perception of what the appropriate language is to use nowadays. But I have to admit I was extremely pissed to see that these folks believe the politically correct usage of the word “feminist” is pointless because the word itself doesn’t really exist anymore:

Feminist: “A word that the younger generation doesn’t always embrace,” is how Baim, 44, describes it. A lot of young women, she says, are “feminists but they don’t want to be pigeonholed.” “Feminist somehow became a tainted word along the way,” says Hill. “I have heard a lot of people say, ‘this sounds feminist’ or ‘I used to be a feminist.’ ” (Emphasis mine)

What the fuck?!? I understand and respect that some women don’t want to identify themselves as feminists, and I think these statements would be appropriate in a conversation about evolution of the word “feminism”; but for these two “experts” to suggest that the very term is being phased out of the younger generation is pretty misleading.