Title: Why Don't More People Call Themselves Feminists?
Headings: Why Don't More People Call Themselves Feminists?
Why Don't More People Call Themselves Feminists?
It's 2014, and lots of women (and men) are still wary of embracing the term.

Content: I stared at the blank line next to the question. I believed in equal rights, sure, but a feminist? The term seemed aggressive, dated, intimidating. "I don't know," I wrote. That hesitation to own the term is a common reaction: In a 2013 Economist/YouGov poll, 72 percent of respondents said that, no, they did not consider themselves feminists. More women than men – 38 percent versus 18 percent – identified as feminist, but in neither group did a majority use the label. Celebrities also routinely reject the term: Taylor Swift isn't a feminist because she doesn't "think about things as guys versus girls"; Lady Gaga isn't one because she "loves men";