I picked up a magazine while I was getting a haircut the other day (Glamour or Allure or one of those), and I was surprised to see a whole section devoted to cosmetic surgery. I was even more surprised to see statistics like "60% of women now approve of cosmetic surgery, 18% more than last year" were seen in a positive light - isn't it great that women finally feel empowered enough to take a knife to their ugly noses? The magazine, along with Christina Hoff Sommers’ speech at CMC (The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men) got me thinking about the original authors of the term "feminism" - and how the term has leapt from them and taken on several contasting connotations of its own.