People have no idea what "socialism" or "fake news" mean, but no one tells me off for using those terms. But I feel like in this corner of Twitter people are sensitive to feminist terms, to the point they'd rather I not use them b/c they could be misunderstood. Is that accurate?
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The other big problem is that, particularly on the internet, I think people (especially men, but in general) are used to a lot of feminism and SJ stuff being basically used to shut down discussion and argument. "You must agree with this or you're a bad person" rhetoric.
This is a corner of the internet where people *really* like discussion and argument and want to be able to challenge you on your ideas - not because they disagree, but because that's how you engage with an idea to understand it better.
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Signalling that you hold norms which will treat that as illegitimate is going to get people to regard you with a lot of caution.
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Generally speaking I think most people here will be fine with feminist terminology *if* you're prepared to engage with them on these sorts of terms and possibly define what you mean more precisely if it comes to that, but they might be prickly until they know you'll do that.
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