feminism by any other name

• the origins of the term were in women’s liberation movements but it grew as a greater movement for equity
• at every point in its history conflict rises on whether to retain the title to acknowledge the history of to offer something more semantically accurate and diversely representative
• ultimately these discussions aren’t particularly productive, but are also a wider question of semantics, politics by language, exclusion through grammatical accuracy, etc, that arises in many spheres