StrixTechnica

I, too, would like to ask that question, though I'd slightly rephrase it: Do you still consider yourself an (equity) feminist?

Is the equity/gender feminist dichotomy still useful in a world where equity feminism seems apparent only by its absence[1], and where the notions of patriarchy, rape culture and male privilege have become ossified and elevated to the status of article of faith in that religion that is gender feminism?

Or is it time to dispense with the distinction (one that gender feminists never liked anyway), and just concede that for practical purposes, 'feminism' now means 'gender feminism'?

[1] there are equity feminists around, but I so rarely ever hear from them they seem to be a vanishing minority.

Ed: I've just seen your reply, Dr Sommers, but would still be interested in your thoughts on whether you think the distinction is still useful, and why.

Thank you — excellent point re. foreign applications (and I agree, there will always be the need for equity something, whatever it gets called) — follow up question, then:

Given how tarnished the word 'feminism' has become, is it worth finding a new name for what is/was known as equity feminism? Or does the phrase still have some life left in it?

(Exactly what that new phrase could be is tough. Humanism, for example, carries so much other baggage that that word would be out of the fat and into the fire.)