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Edit: The term feminazi was once used as a shorthand for "feminist nazi" for those that don't know.

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[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, is the gender of the person really the focus? We already have a fantastic term for Nazis of all genders: Nazis.

Adding fem to the front just makes you sound like an incel.

[-] homes@piefed.world 7 points 1 week ago

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“.

[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

This. Plus we don’t need to attack Nazis further because they’re women. The delineation is pointless.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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?

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

It's like russians using "ukronazi" to push the narrative of "liberating" the ethnic minorities in Ukraine.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

The wrong people were calling the wrong women that term for the wrong reasons and ruined it for everyone.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It fell out of use because that pill popping piece of dog shit Rush Limbaugh finally died.

[-] homes@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago

prolly the first time I saw this meme:

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[-] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Ahhhh ❤️ thank you. I needed that reminder today.

It's always a good day to remember Rush Limbaugh is dead ❤️ 🌈

[-] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

There never was a time where there were no female Nazis around.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Wait are you implying some of the first particles to exit the big bang were nazi's?

It's room for discussion of whether non human animals could exhibit fassist characteristics. But time started over 13 billion years ago, and the earliest life that we know of can be estimated to be under 4 billion years ago. No matter how you slice it, even if another planet that we don't know of, formed as fast as possible, and evolution took a beeline to the first viable species capable of having nazi ideology. there has to have been at least a billion years of no nazis.

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