"What's your definition of Post-Feminist?" asked a friend of mine.

Post-feminist: (n. adj, Am E) A rhetorical flourish of the backlash offered as a compliment or sign of historical chic, but functionally a rightist conservative term meant to short circuit actual feminist cultural work. Know uses: She's nice to men so she's a post-feminist. He speaks to women respectfully, so he is a post-feminist. In the post-feminist era we have addressed the complaints raised by feminists concerning parity, education, safety from intimate violence, and the commodification of women as tools of the entertainment and advertising industries. In the post-feminist era, women are not abused, not sold into sexual slavery, not paid less, not suspected of emotional unpredictability, professional ineptitude, or intellectual handicap. Everything's ducky now, so hush. Oh, and post-feminist pornography is all images of hot lust in reciprocal and mutually satisfying sexual partnerships.