Femi-what?

Feminists have been called some pretty nasty things. Rush Limbaugh is quoted as saying, "Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society" and with popularizing the term "feminazi." Pat Robertson is quoted as saying at the Republican National Convention in 1992, "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."

I'm finishing a paper for my class at Brigham Young University on feminist legal theory and I don't see the witchcraft. I agree that there are some extremists who call themselves feminists, but I don't think all feminists should be tainted by the extremists any more than I would want all Christians to be stereotyped by Warren Jeffs.

Christina Sommers wrote, in 1994, Who Stole Feminism? Originally, and maybe more authentically, feminism meant the right of women to participate fully in society and has stood for such noble causes as women's right to vote, the abolition of slavery, and women's access to education. I'm in favor of those things.