Until my friend emailed me an article the other day - In Defense of Zooey Deschanel - I had no idea how much hate Zooey was getting for calling herself a feminist.  One of the great, and not so great things about feminism is that it's such a broad and all encompassing term, and it can mean pretty much whatever you want it to.  There's no one solid definition - I suppose the most basic way of describing feminism (in the words of Nona Willis Aronowitz) is that it's "a code word for having gender awareness." I know feminists that think stripping is a way of owning your sexuality, feminists that are anti-abortion, and then there are women like Sarah Palin that claim feminism as a path back to traditional family roles.  I still find it strange that if someone says they're a feminist, the media feels like they have the right to debate whether said person actually is or isn't.  It's so abstract, there's just no sense in trying to unclaim the term for someone else.