# Rush Limbaugh — "feminazi" > [!quote] "A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed." > — Rush Limbaugh, *The Way Things Ought to Be* (1992) ## Context Limbaugh popularized "feminazi" on his nationally syndicated radio show through the late 1980s and early 1990s, and formalized the definition in his 1992 bestseller *The Way Things Ought to Be*, where he wrote that he preferred "to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis." The coinage fused feminism with genocide, casting women's-rights advocacy as morally equivalent to Nazism via the abortion frame. ## Why this matters The bridge quote of this collection — it carries organized [[Antifeminism]] out of the religious-right fundraising letter and the Senate hearing room and into the mass medium of talk radio, where it reached tens of millions. "Feminazi" became one of the most successful pieces of derogatory political vocabulary of the era, entering everyday speech and dictionaries, and it modeled the move every later entry repeats: reduce a women's-rights position to a caricature so grotesque it cannot be argued with. It ties [[Misogyny]] to [[Abortion Politics]], the terrain that has driven the gender backlash ever since. ## Verification - **History of the slur / sourcing:** [Media Matters — "Feminazi: The History of Limbaugh's Trademark Slur"](https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/feminazi-history-limbaughs-trademark-slur-against-women). - **Quotation record:** [Wikiquote — Rush Limbaugh](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh), citing *The Way Things Ought to Be* (1992). - **Status:** Verbatim, undisputed; published in Limbaugh's own book. ## Related quotes - [[Pat Robertson - the feminist agenda]] — the same-era religious-right framing of feminism as anti-family subversion. - [[Phyllis Schlafly - virtuous women]] — the movement's foundational antifeminist voice. - Featured in [[Misogyny on the Right]].