Edit: The term feminazi was once used as a shorthand for “feminist nazi” for those that don’t know.
The wrong people were calling the wrong women that term for the wrong reasons and ruined it for everyone.
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“.
It’s like russians using “ukronazi” to push the narrative of “liberating” the ethnic minorities in Ukraine.
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
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.
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.
It fell out of use because that pill popping piece of dog shit Rush Limbaugh finally died.
prolly the first time I saw this meme:
Ahhhh ❤️ thank you. I needed that reminder today.
It’s always a good day to remember Rush Limbaugh is dead ❤️ 🌈
Amen lol
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.
It seems more encompassing than TERF. The fem part refers to “feminist”, like in TERF, not female.
i think what you mean, which other comments may have misunderstood (or im wrong and other comments are closer to op’s true meaning), is a usage of this term similar to terf, like misappropriating feminist ideals for a Nazi-like agenda.
kinda fun, could totally be misconstrued as misogynistic though.
Yeah you got it. TERFs are pretty much feminazis (feminist nazis) in the literal sense lol
Someone using the term “feminazi” is absolutely someone who is misogynistic.
The term has nothing to do with Nazis and everything to do with criticizing and tearing down outspoken feminists.
i completely agree, im sorry if my comment made it seem like i have the same sentiment, was just hoping to explain what i read that others may have missed.
kinda fun, could totally be misconstrued as misogynistic though.
I read into this line a bit much, apologies if I came off a little harsh. I did think you agreed with me!
Yeah. The point of my post is pointing out the irony of this. Hence the way it was written.
It really depends what you mean by “real” feminazi.
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.
But alas, the only people who used it were angry anti-feminists, so I think it’s never going to come back again.
What makes you think that angry anti-feminists have gotten quieter over the years?
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
They didn’t, they just don’t think Nazis are bad anymore
Oof, the reality of this statement caught me offguard.
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.
There never was a time where there were no female Nazis around.
Not female, feminist. I’m honestly surprised how many people are unfamiliar with this term lol
Maybe Lemmy has a younger demographic than I had assumed.
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.
