Comment by pimlottc
6 days ago
I don’t know what you mean by the “official” definition of “feminist”. There’s no single authority that decides what an English word means or how it should be used like there is for French (which has the Académie Française).
Perhaps you mean to say the “original” meaning of the word, but language is not static. Meanings change over time and vary from place to place.
I’m not trying to be pedant. Reasonable people can disagree on what being a feminist means, it doesn’t mean one side is automatically correct or another side is cynically acting in bad faith.
You can find one of those definitions in the dictionary and not the other one.
But it's not two people disagreeing about the definition anyway. It's the same person trying to use different definitions in different contexts in order to conflate opposition to an unreasonable position with opposition to a reasonable one.