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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Hmm. I think in my understanding of it it was the opposite. It's not that nobody believes the narrow definition, it's that virtually everybody does, and the ambiguity between the two is used to defend the broad version by claiming to only need to defend the narrow version.
(I think the degree to which feminism does motte and bailey has been greatly exaggerated TBH - it definitely does happen with some individual feminists, but I think it's a misdiagnosis of the way overreach of feminist concepts tends to actually happen)
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I guess a central example of feminist motte and bailey would be: * "You're a feminist if you believe women are people" (whichever one the defensible one is I never remember) * "If you're a feminist you must then believe in concepts like privilege, patriarchy etc" (the other one)
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That one definitely does happen.
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