A national survey by the Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation finds 6 in 10 women and one-third of men call themselves a feminist or strong feminist, with roughly 7 in 10 of each saying the movement is empowering. Yet over 4 in 10 Americans see the movement as angry, and a similar portion say it unfairly blames men for women's challenges.

Younger women are more optimistic about movement across a variety of measures, and more than 4 in 10 say they've expressed their views about women's rights on social media.

When asked at a press conference why he was passionate about a gender-based cabinet, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, responded with the now-legendary line "because it's 2015." Again, short and simple, but painfully obvious to everyone who understands what feminism is really about.

Oxford Dictionaries has said it will review the example sentences it uses for the adjective “rabid” after being accused of sexism over its current example: “a rabid feminist”.

The dictionary publisher, part of Oxford University Press, was taken to task by the Canadian anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan, after he noticed that the word “rabid”, defined by the dictionary as “having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something”, used the example phrase “rabid feminist”. Oman-Reagan tweeted about it to the publisher, suggesting they change it.

This is all just in the last week.

I am proud to be a feminist. I'd love for the Gotham Blog to be about interesting, thought provoking topics that would get responses from more that the 15 people who generally respond.

May just write about this every week...

How many feminists in Gotham? How many think it is a relevant concept today?