In response to Eugene Volokh, who argues that conservatives should not

reject feminism per se, have no problem affirming the “equity feminism” backed by folks like

Christina Hoff Sommers. It’s the left-leaning feminism sponsored by folks

like Gloria Steinem and Susan Faludi (what Sommers calls “gender feminism”)

that I have a problem with. The difficulty is that when academics and

liberals talk about feminism, they don’t mean the equity feminism affirmed

by Christina Hoff Sommers. I agree that we need to do more to take the

word back. Having said that, in common parlance on today’s campus, the

word feminist means the sort of left-feminism that considers someone like

Sommers to be a non-feminist apostate. So it’s a complicated word that

gets used in different ways by different folks in different contexts.