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A professor at Northwestern doesn’t know the meaning of the prefix PROTO.

On his webpage, he announces his commitment to a “proto-feminist” “collective good.” Proto means ‘Primitive: … a basic or undeveloped state.‘ Zat really what you want?

There is something I know you want, and that’s attention. Man, you just waggled your dingus in front of an academic audience!

Margaret Soltan, June 23, 2025 10:18AM
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2 Responses to “A professor at Northwestern doesn’t know the meaning of the prefix PROTO.”

  1. Frances Says:

    DEI baby?

  2. Dmitry Says:

    It appears to be an accepted term in academic literature:

    https://anarrativeoftheirown.substack.com/p/protofeminism
    https://jamesbishopblog.com/2019/12/18/the-origins-of-feminism-in-the-18th-century-proto-feminism/
    https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=gh_theses
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protofeminism

    and so on

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