Like I said before although the article has been cleaned up a lot and is significantly less offensive than it was it still subtly reinforces some negative and false stereotypes about spinsters Yes some feminists I don t know about many embrace the term in the same way that some disadvantaged racial groups have embraced terms that were before considered derogatory That doesn t discount the fact that the term is still associated in the minds of many with derogatory stereotypes The word spinster does exist and does define a set of negative stereotypes about older unmarried women Many derogatory racial epithets also exist and define a set of negative stereotypes about certain racial and cultural groups That doesn t mean that we shouldn t be careful the way we present those epithets in public encyclopedias