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[ismnotwasm]

But I don't see Obama announcing himself that he's a feminist anytime soon.

Michell Obama has declined to identify herself as a feminist although she says "she would agree with a large portion" of a feminist agenda. I'm not complaining, exactly It's the politic thing to do.

"So is she a feminist? "You know, I'm not that into labels," Michelle Obama said in the interview. "So probably, if you laid out a feminist agenda, I would probably agree with a large portion of it," she said. "I wouldn't identify as a feminist just like I probably wouldn't identify as a liberal or a progressive"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/10/AR2007051002573_pf.html

However, I'll take what I can get, I guess I have to. Good for little sister for laying it out. As someone pointed out up thread, "Feminist" has had too many bullshit connotations from the left and the right.