Definition of feminism

[jack]

Feminism means:

"Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes." (The dictionary definiton.)
People who think women are still mostly opressed, who most people think are loonies.
Comments:

ETA:

5 people ticked both
1 person ticked the second
9 people ticked the first

Comments:
"It means the first. feminist, on the other hand, is usually the second."
"You can't spell oppressed! And there are ways in which women are still oppressed. And indeed men are also constrained by gender stereotypes. Woman's hour this morning was talking about the patriachy being a cause of men's shorter life expectancy"

I need to rephrase the second, perhaps.

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[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

rhymed with combine (harvester, not the verb)

Eh?

Surely if it rhymes with combine as in combine harvester, it rhymes with combine as in the verb, as they're pronounced the same (or at least they certainly are when I say either of them)...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

When I say it:

"combine harvesters" = put two harvesters together

"combine harvesters" = several items of agricultural machinery

The stress is softer in the second as well as in a different place.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

fairy snuff

would personally pronounce them the same, ie same word different context.

ie your combine harvester is a result of when you combine harvesters

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

then again...

it is a legal requirement to pronounce "combine harvester" in a west country accent

and not being from thw West country, I generally don't have a west country accent so wouldn't pronounce combine in one

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Where do you put the stress, then?

(It's also a noun, e.g. business combine; in that case I pronounce it the same as the adjectival form, combine.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

combine

then again some people have told me I have an odd accent, but the on other hand others have told me I haven't got any at all...