“Everyone in political life can expect to encounter criticism, perhaps especially on Twitter,” NBC News reports, adding: “But when you wind up getting repeatedly publicly corrected by one of America’s most respected dictionaries, that’s a bit out of the ordinary.”
As Time reports, “Kellyanne Conway spoke about running President Donald Trump’s campaign, working in the White House and shunning the “feminist” label during the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday.
Political commentator Mercedes Schlapp conducted a question and answer session with Conway on the first day of the CPAC meeting and asked Conway her thoughts on “conservative feminism.”
“Well, I believe this generation, particularly the younger people don’t really like labels. And we don’t — we’re not necessarily joiners or liking to label ourselves. And I — that — that’s great in its own right,” Conway began before getting to the substance of her definition of “feminism.”
“For me, its difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male and it certainly is very pro-abortion in this context. And I’m neither anti-male or pro- abortion, so. There’s an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices. Mercedes, I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances. And that’s really clearly what conservatives, feminism, if you will, is all about.”
Merriam-Webster begged to differ, posting their own definition a few hours later:
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