(10-23-2016, 06:29 AM)MaJoR Wrote: Definitely not recent years! That was a late Second Wave Feminism thing, which was quite a long time ago (~1960s-70s). First Wave Feminism had a lot of success, but it primarily focused with some pretty basic preliminary things, like treating women as people through property rights and the right to vote. But it was pretty gentle in its approach, and stalled out. So many activist became upset at the lack of progress, and started pushing HARD. Second Wave was built on this frustration energy, and charged ahead bringing up topics society just wanted to ignore, like rape, domestic violence, gender discrimination in the work place, contraception, on and on. But that frustration energy caused Second Wave Feminism to turn extreme toward its end, pushing out other non-whites and non-cis women, leading to tons of infighting which destroyed Second Wave Feminism from the inside. Modern Third Wave Feminism grew in the aftermath of second wave feminism, and is much more inclusive and much less antagonistic. Third Wave Feminism focuses on bringing down stereotypes and gender restrictions for everyone, so everyone can have a better life and be who they are!Thanks for the links! I didn't know much about this. Glad to see this presented in a non-biased and calm manner. Whenever this is brought up anywhere else, all I walk out with is a lot of confusion and a headache from all the shouting.
Second Wave Feminism was so "in your face" that many people still think that is what feminism is, but in reality that was just a tiny phase of a hundred years of feminism!
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