to their feet and say "that's exactly like feminists!", you'd have to live in a Bizarro version of Earth to think that today's feminists are in the same position of power that white men in North America have been in... ever. Such a characterization is reminiscent of those who claim that the Occupy folks are "holding Wall st. hostage" or that anti-war protesters are "oppressing the military". when you refer to "white men" without any distinctions. Your analogy limps mightily. Today's educated, politically-connected, influential feminists do in fact have more power than the average working-class Joe. This is not to deny the existence of sexism (since educated, politically-connected, influential men have more power), only to deny that it is in every case more powerful than classism. You would do better to say that the degree of oppression faced by the average working-class Joe today is less than that historically faced by blacks or women. Nevertheless it is only a difference of degree, not of kind. And there is another analogy fail here: "Nigger" is a word used to describe a person based on an inherent belief that black people, by their very nature, are inferior to white people (although it has expanded rapidly since its original coining) and thus deserving of whatever treatment the culture was trying to justify at the time. "Misogynist", on the other hand, describes a set of behaviours or beliefs that are consistent with a belief that men are superior to women. Yes but that is