Reply #2: I think it says something about the person using it

[VelmaD]

I once had Karl Rove call me a "fundamentalist Shi'ite feminist" and my feelings about that insult and "feminazi" are the same. A lot of it is projection. The person saying it wants to harken back to a time when men had absolute power over women. If they could they would use force to hold us in our place. And since force is the ONLY thing they know...they assume that women feel the same way and if they let us have any power at all we'll use it to hurt them. So they equate us with one of the most oppressive and violent regimes in history.