text: Yes, there is always that danger.  The committed left, of which feminism is a part, has always gone through struggles with ideological purity and schisms.  I think it's part of having been on the outside for so long.  I may be a glass-half full person, but I see it as being more open now.  That some can blast Marie Henein and Margaret Atwood without shaking their feminist credentials is a good thing.