Some Random Thoughts on French Feminist Group Names

Why do French feminist groups have such awesome names? (As noted in this story on the au revoir to the term ‘mademoiselle.’) For instance, is “Les Chiennes de Garde” a pun, in French? (I don’t have any reason to think so particularly; it just LOOKS like it would be some sort of super-cute complicated French double-pun.) Also “Paroles de Femmes,” which is an “aid group” not an activist group;. Can I translate that in my mind as Words With Lady Friends? That’s much more fun. Oh France.