Edit: The term feminazi was once used as a shorthand for “feminist nazi” for those that don’t know.
IME the term “feminazi” never meant “female Nazi”, but was meant to insult feminists who stood up and strongly defended feminism, sometimes even going to extraordinary lengths to do so… a term often used by those who disagreed with them.
Nazis, who were female were always just called “Nazis“.
Yes. It fell out of use because when the chuds hearing the term online started trying to use it in real life they got a reality check. Its not so much a dog whistle someone’s a mysogynist so much as a shouted confession.
Not because Nazis are more prominent now or something.
trying to use it in real life
Lmao, who?
This. Plus we don’t need to attack Nazis further because they’re women. The delineation is pointless.
I was thinking moroso female nazis that hide behind feminism, such as transphobes pushing harmful legislation under the guise of “protecting women and girls”
So the “femi” part refers to feminist nazi, not necessarily just female nazi
There also were fascist „feminists“ right back to Suffrage. Many white women at the time explicitly campaigned to not make Suffrage universal to Black and indigenous peoples. 3rd wave feminism was in reaction to the continued shortcomings of the 2nd wave who came after Suffragettes - TERFs in fact are a resurgence of the worst of 2nd wave dogma around gender.
There also were fascist „feminists“ right back to Suffrage.
Suffragettes, aka “proto-Feminists”. Acting like Feminism has ever been “a force for good” is just ignorant.
Pretty sure “feminazi” was used to describe women who dyed their hair and went on to talk shows to blame men for all their personal issues, and literally verbally said men should be treated like second class citizens and only exist to provide for women.
It’s been a while so maybe people have forgotten how first-wave and second-wave feminists were disgusted at third-wave feminists.
Edit: Now that I think about it, weren’t some of these women also TERFs?
Pretty sure “feminazi” was used to describe women who dyed their hair and went on to talk shows to blame men for all their personal issues, and literally verbally said men should be treated like second class citizens and only exist to provide for women.
It’s been a while so maybe people have forgotten how first-wave and second-wave feminists were disgusted at third-wave feminists.
for the record, and RIP.
Ah, maybe I’m just trans, but I assumed OP was specifically talking about TERFs (who often end up hanging out with Nazis eventually), not the general concept of women being fascists
It’s like russians using “ukronazi” to push the narrative of “liberating” the ethnic minorities in Ukraine.
Wow, that is some next level dumb propaganda they come up with in Russia. I guess whatever works.
meant to insult feminists who stood up and strongly defended feminism
Huh, here I thought it was used for those the Feminists that had those “male tears” mugs, and were generally acting misandristic.
It fell out of use because that pill popping piece of dog shit Rush Limbaugh finally died.
Ahhhh ❤️ thank you. I needed that reminder today.
It’s always a good day to remember Rush Limbaugh is dead ❤️ 🌈
Amen lol
prolly the first time I saw this meme:
The wrong people were calling the wrong women that term for the wrong reasons and ruined it for everyone.
That was back when Nazi was a slur for (often authoritarian, or just loud) people you didn’t like, see Soup Nazi on Seinfeld.
It’s also why Godwins Law was written.
Now that actual Nazis are back in power, we need to reserve the term or risk dilution, also Godwins Law isn’t relevant when there are real Nazis involved.
Now that actual Nazis are back in power
“Socialism” is a dirty word to them. Why would they want the national variant of it?
TERFs is a more accurate description anyway.
Except in the case of Joanne Rowling. She’s spouting off actual Nazi sympathies and is an avid holocaust denier.
Always use her legal name, not her preferred name.
Just call terfs what they are: transphobes. They’re not feminist.
I always thought it was kind of a terrible term even in my early days on the internet, but TERFs would indeed fall under this nowadays. But alas, the only people who used it were angry anti-feminists, so I think it’s never going to come back again.
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They didn’t, they just don’t think Nazis are bad anymore
Oof, the reality of this statement caught me offguard.
It’s more like they evolved. Conservative opposition to feminism has become institutionally entrenched, so there’s not really a need for the ecological niche of “White Guy who Makes Cringe Reaction Videos to CRAAAAZY Feminists” anymore
Nah, I don’t think they did. The thing is that nowadays anyone who claims to be an anti-feminist gets instantly clocked as a misogynistic incel, so they hide behind the “protecting women” idea now.
are you saying:
people used to use word “feminazi” as a short for “feminist nazi” but, ha ha, there were no actual feminist nazis back then but now there are?
if so, is it either:
- people used a short form of a phrase that referred to something that did not exist (an extraordinary assumption which i find hard to believe)
- people used it for real Eva Braun-loving (?) chicks that were real nazi’s and real feminitsst … and now there is another group of people that we need this term for?
that’s blindingly insightful and infuriatingly incoherent: the purest form shower thought, indeed 🙃
Modern feminism is not compatible with Nazism. This is because Nazi ideology has baked in discrimination.
You are right that it did coexist in the past.
I think the term’s roots are misogynistic and the meaning is a militant feminist. So no actual Nazi ideology.
Always thought it wasn’t for feminist that were nazi but just crasy feminist that claim stupid shit on part with nazism, which they are still a lot today
I mean, the Suffragettes (proto-feminists) already firebombed some places, like a bunch of terrorists, so it’s not like Feminism already had a good name.
In case you think only feminists fought for suffrage: There already was a larger, unnamed, suffrage movement that fought, without violence, for universal suffrage.
Important Notice: Feminism does not have a monopoly on universal suffrage.
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