"The word ‘radical’ means ‘going to the roots’. It is derived from the Latin radix, meaning root. Radical Feminism goes to the root of oppression and the way out. And I define it as “way of being characterised by an Awesome and Ecstatic sense of Otherness from patriarchal norms and values conscious awareness of the sadosociety’s sanctions against Radical Feminists moral outrage on behalf of women as women commitment to the cause of women that persists, even against the current, when feminism is no longer ‘popular’; in other words, constancy."
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