Yeah, it was popularized in the nineties by right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh, who defined it as referring to someone who made it her goal to see that as many abortions were performed as possible--a goal which virtually no one ever actually endorsed. It's obviously a portmanteau of feminist and nazi, so it has generally been favored by those with little or no good will towards the feminist movment (though sure, there are some who will say that they are feminists but not feminazis). I wouldn't go so far as to say it's not a "valid" word to use--I'm not even sure what it would mean for a word not to be "valid" in a conversation like this--but I do think it tends to make the user sound hostile towards feminism as a movement.
Yeah, the movie whitewashes Achilles, thereby obscuring the realities of the misogyny with which so much of the Western tradition is intertwined. I'm not a fan.Using you example here, it is very easy to see how and why the story was changed for the movie "Troy." Here Achilles, one of the heroes of the movie, does NOT force Brisies, and in fact rescues here from the lecherous attentions of the wicked Agamemnon. Clearly the movie makers understood what I was talking about - that you cant have a character raping and murdering women and then have him turn around and be the good guy, redeem himself, and have feminists happily go along with it. Not without truly extraordinary circumstances like mind control or possession.
Even if that's the case, what does Azzarello's run do by ascribing this view to women who are (or were, until the last few issues) almost literally stuck in the past? I think it suggests that this defensive hostility, either as an actual reaction to patriarchy or a perception of strong and liberated women, belongs to the past, and that modern empowered and liberated women--like Wonder Woman--want nothing to do with it.The problem with the Amazons in the Azzarello run is that is actually describes them to a tee - which means that these women now embody the very worst view of what empowered and liberated women are all about.
That may be the bretionary definition of counter-intuitive. Here's Google's dictionary definition:In this case, I was simply referring to the ability of the readers to follow how you describe your assumptions about Azzarello's convoluted logic. The theory of relativity might be counter-intuitive, but that was written by one of the greatest minds of human history and should not be taken as the yard stick by which the term is commonly measured - in other words, something that makes no sense and fails in its purpose. [except to make money, I suppose].
I get that a feminist reading of Azz's run seems counter-intuitive and strange to many. That doesn't mean it can't be perfectly valid. It's certainly possible to negatively critique it from a feminist point of view; that critique may not be the reading I find most compelling, but that doesn't mean it's flat-out wrong or that I can't respect it. It would be nice if everyone could realize that more that one reading is possible--but if they can't, they can't.coun·ter·in·tu·i·tive
adjective
contrary to intuition or to common-sense expectation (but often nevertheless true).