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Someone has commented 'barf' on reasind about the word Shevolution, which is of course unutterably witty and I hope everyone falls about laughing. Someone with that word-power and imagination ought to be writing Tolstovian novels.
But it raises a serious point: because we men by fist and fiat (usually fist) have dominated the sexes for thousands of years, everything we created was designed by men for men, including politics, economics, the workplace, societal norms, acceptable behaviour etc. This means most men simply see a natural order in things rather than the entirely artificial construct designed by/for men and not by/for women. And let's face it, we have such a wonderful, peaceful, well-managed world we don't need any such concept as Shevolution, now do we, Mr Barf?
April 25, 2009
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The neologism 'shevolution' was invented by Lesley Abdela sometime in the 1980s as part of her campaigning for women's equality. Her use of shevolution was 'the outcome of a process where women and men work together as equals'.
Sometimes it appears as a synonym for 'feminism', as in the use in the Financial Times 4 or 5 years ago.
April 24, 2009