{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Point: Feminism Without Women?","description":"Handmaid\u2019s Tale author Margaret Atwood became a feminist icon for her dystopian novel in which women are enslaved for the purpose of childbearing. Her writing is both the basis for a hit Hulu series and the unofficial mascot of the #MeToo movement. Recently, Atwood retweeted an op-ed criticizing the use of phrases like \u201cpregnant person\u201d instead of \u201cwoman.\u201d \u201cWhy can\u2019t we say \u2018woman\u2019 anymore?\u201d the article\u2019s author asked. And the backlash to Atwood\u2019s retweet was swift and vicious. Opinion pieces in USA Today and the Independent called her everything from \u201cmisguided\u201d to \u201ctransphobic.\u201d She was compared with Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, who has consistently rejected the trans narrative, and each of these onetime progressive heroines are now labeled a \u201cTERF,\u201d or \u201ctrans-exclusionary radical feminist.\u201d This conflict between the \u201cF\u201d and the \u201cT\u201d in the acronym is real. The feminism of Rowling and Atwood assumes that women are real and are oppressed by men. But those in the camp of T claim that \u201cwoman\u201d is a self-identifying construct, which men can fairly appropriate. So what\u2019s coming in this narrative? Will feminism eventually be edited to exclude women? ","author_name":"Breakpoint","author_url":"https:\/\/breakpoint.org","html":"