NEW/Updated: Statement From Al Franken:

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98. Ms. Toad, feedback from a real, lifelong feminist,

different viewpoint evidently.

I don't think I've used that ugly word in 50 years, not even when it supposedly became stylish for women to call their friends that. That's because I am a feminist and in my bones I don't believe in what it implies. Our rights to live our lives as we wish, just like men's, stop where other people's noses begin but otherwise are pretty much unlimited.

Reminds me that I've also never in my life said, "I'm not a feminist, but..."

Toad, what you need to understand is that feminism is not license to attack men viciously for absolutely anything that displeases some woman while letting women get away with even the shabbiest behaviors if they seem somehow gender or sex related.

Which this one does.

Now, I repeat, I believe you should retire that ugly word. From what I've read today, I'm guessing you're the only one here using it.