Comment by HarryHirsch

The point is that this is a polemic piece, it's Valerie Aurora after all. The opposite of polemics would be apologetics. Valerie is implying that feminism is equivalent to civility, civility in the Latin sense of being mindful of the rights and responsibilities to human society.

That's where she loses me.

And what's with this dehumanizing technique of not naming those she disagrees with? You see this often.