defining feminism (for the record)

I'm not going to go too far into this right now... but I just wanted to state this, for the record...

(Internally) I react the same way to hearing words like "chick", "honey" and "babe" coming from a non-feminine person as I do to the word "nigger" coming from a non-black person. It pisses me off, and I actually bring the person down a notch, in so far as my opinion of them is concerned.

I think those "Gender Wars" left some pretty permanent scars on me... and actually, I'm pretty glad they did.