I just watched this incredible movie called "Suffragette". I am full of thoughts on it.
First of all, how amazing is that term? The Suffragettes. It is a beautiful, mellifluous, clever innovation. We need to invent more words like that. There is too much co-opting of existing words, reducing them to one connotation - instead of finding better ways to express something new, we lose something old. When trying to explain that one is opposed to human trafficking it is necessary to string a bunch of words together. Why the heck? Aren't 99% of us opposed to this? Why isn't there a way to express that in the positive? "I am a Suffragette." beautiful, simple, clear. "Feminist" doesn't even have the same clarity of meaning.
Human Rights Activist: not concise enough, also vague.
We need to create new specific terms so that we can gather in opposition to the horrors in the world. We need to be able to talk about these topics and be understood. The first step to change is identification and understanding of the problem. The problem has a name, why doesn't the solution?
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