[Ads-l] Wordplay: feminisn't - not feminist

[Ben Zimmer]

Is "feminisn't" something practiced by an "American't"?

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:56 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
>
> Date: January 29, 2015
> Website: In These Times
> Article: If You Tweet This, Jonathan Chait Wins
> Author: Sady Doyle
> http://inthesetimes.com/article/17584/jonathan_chait_pc
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Cover Girl ads now come with feminist hashtags. Plenty of sites now
> trade in a sort of substance-free "feminisn't" designed to catch the
> SJ traffic wave.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Year: 2013
> Title: White Whine: A Study of First-World Problems
> Author: Streeter Seidell
> Publisher: Adams Media: Division of F+W Media, Avon, Massachusetts
> Quote Page 182
> Database: Google Books Full View
> https://books.google.com/books?id=8VdTAAAAQBAJ&q=feminisn%27t#v=snippet&
>
> [Begin chapter title]
> Feminisn't
> [End chapter title]

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