Again in Helsingin Sanomat someone called for the Finnish political parties to include the term feminism in their political manifestos. And in the very same article the very same person wrote, "there are as many feminisms as there are feminists".
I'm dying to ask her, "What good would it do to include in official party politics another term that no-one can really define? Don't we already have many enough of those fuzzy concepts? Why should political rhetoric be even more ambiguous than it is now?"
Why not call for political parties to include well-defined things that are entailed in modern 2000s Finnish feminism, such as preventing domestic violence, fighting income differences, and reconciling motherhood with working life? Why is the term so much more important than the things it represents?
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