What comes to mind when you hear the word "feminist?" Do you think of the suffrage movement or the second wave? Do names of writers and activists come to mind - Malala Yousafzai, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Simone de Beauvoir, and so many others? Perhaps the word "feminist" is an identifier for you, if you are tired of living in a society that you believe fears and devalues womanhood.

Or, do you tend to think feminists are simply a bunch of women who hate men? Everybody, our society has some confusion about what feminism is. The fact that the popular hashtag, #wastehistime2016, has been labeled "feminist" proves that many people associate feminism with the final opinion - and that's a problem.

Even for non-Twitter users, one of the first major hashtags of the new year was hard to escape. Wildly trending in the beginning of January, #wastehistime2016 featured women's creative yet unkind ideas on how to dump men who were interested in them:

Tell him you're excited to have his last name and then marry his brother #WasteHisTime2016

— Waste His Time 2016 (@timewasting2016)

When he asks you to be Bae tell him you're not ready for a relationship, then tweet you're sick of being single #WasteHisTime2016

— Waste His Time 2016 (@WasteHisTimeTho)

Certain keywords featured in the articles written about the phenomenon: "ghosting," "owned," and ... "feminist?" One article even trumpeted, "#WasteHisTime2016 Is the Feminist Hashtag Women Have been Waiting For."

But is this really what feminism is? Have women been "waiting" all, this time, to make fun of men on social media?

Perhaps one of the most common one-liners used to define the feminist movement is this one, penned by professor Cheris Kramarae: “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.” Or, as Gloria Steinem put it, “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”

Feminism has everything to do with justice and nothing to do with mocking men. There are many adjectives to describe #wastehistime2016. Entertaining. Petty. Satirical. Mean. But feminist? No way.

And feminists, we have bigger fish to fry because 25% of college women are sexually assaulted in our country, because stores sell clothing with sexist messages for the youngest children, because street harassment is often the norm, while women are blamed when they receive unwanted attention, and because powerful and famous men have preyed on women without consequences for decades - for starters.

A hashtag to call out some of these wrongs? Now that would be a good idea.