#third wave feminism

[imdowndownbutdefinetlynotout]

[disease]

KATHLEEN HANNA | BIKINI KILL | ‘90s

[keytonesworld]

Hot take.

I think some Christians are opposed to feminism as a whole because a completely wrong precedent has been set with third wave feminism. So let me just say.

Man hating is not feminist. Abortion is not feminist. Sex work is not feminist. Using each other for sexual gratification without consequence is not feminist. Putting work above everything, including God, your family life or health, is not feminist. (That goes for men too, actually.) No matter what they say. All of this hurts both men and women, of course, but especially women.

Feminism at its core was to protect women and give them rights. Feminism fought for an equal vote, a right to be able to sustain ourselves in a society in which a woman's survival was only guaranteed if she was married, many times being forced and unwanted and loveless. Feminism fought for women in abusive marriages and relationships. Feminism fought for a right to be seen as a human created in the image of God with desire and aspirations and a worth and story written by God and not a sexual slave/baby making machine with no life of her own and one set path in life. A lot of women who are anti-feminist as a whole forget that we are where we are and we can say what we want to say about these topics because of the women who were beaten and women who stood up to the tyranny that unbiblically and immorally put us down.

I will wear the feminist badge still, but let it be no mistake that it is not because I support this third wave of feminism, the one that is ironically anti-feminist, but because God brings women to many different places, places like the amazing stay at home mom and wife who serves her home and husband beautifully, and the woman who wants a career or wants to own her own business and loves and follows God in his plan for her life. In my humble opinion, we shouldn't think that feminism was a mistake at its core, because it most certainly wasn't, and I believe that it still isn't, only what it's become.

But that's just me.

A suffragette in 1917. (One of my favorite pictures.)

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

Anything you can do, I can do bleeding.

Resting while I am on my period does not make me less competent.

[gaaaaaaaayypr]

Third wave feminism is destroying America, children, women, men, and western civilization.

But let's keep doing it...

Trump 2024!!!

[theangryfeministwriter]

special thanks to that ballerina farms article because in an effort to understand her I’m reading the Feminine Mystique

[djuvlipen]

truly the worst wave of feminism. they took everything away from me

[missandrisky]

What branch of feminism extends to ALL FEMALES regardless of the appropriateness of their response to patriarchal trauma? Like what is beyond ‘radical’ feminism and is actually ALL inclusive. Please point me in that direction so I may interact less with the exclusionary (basically all other) feminist branches.

[culturevulturette]

Feminists have never been particularly interested in the actual problems of actual oppressed women. Fantasies of oppression starring themselves is job one.

[inconsistently--consistent]

Book Review

We should all be feminists

I like it. This is based off a ted talk that I believe went viral. Was featured in a Beyonce song. I'm not sure why my e-library has it tagged as vintage.

Adichie is able to put alot of things into words I did not know how to describe.

[asshole-rebel-psycho]

Feminist activists: " Women for killing babies!"

Make it make sense.

[cuzzler]

Do you guys believe in the Illuminati still?

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

It’s interesting to watch the girlification of everything as, well, not really a girl. I round up to thirty. The sticker on my car is expired and I just got annihilated by taxes. As a Gen Z woman, I take up the liminal space of girl-dinner and the Barbie premier but also Nicu bills and breast pumps. What they don’t tell you is becoming a mother doesn’t really change who you are. You mature. But it’s really not that different from becoming a father or any kind of parent. You’re you, but with additional responsibilities are relationships. It’s increasingly harder not to over-identify with reproduction and nurture, because it’s my whole day. It’s ever-more exhausting to see anyone push the dichotomy between mothers and child-free women. I wrote a poem about it, as an exercise in experiencing my female identity internally and personally, images that aren’t so glued to function and body.

I barely know you, but @artemis-potnia-theron please accept my dedication.

[gaaaaaaaayypr]

How do you explain the "male gaze" when many lesbians write smut?

Do they not have a "gaze" when they write about attractive women? 🤔

What about gay men being objectified by other men? Is that not the "male gaze" then? Or it's only oppressive towards straight women from men??

[theangryfeministwriter]

I want to clarify-

The kind of new wave feminism that I see making a real difference in the future is the one that includes trans women, sex workers, and queer women.

The patriarchy is to blame for society’s transphobia and willingness to oppress and harm sex workers.

New wave feminism, in my opinion, is about confronting the patriarchy in all aspects of life and finding ways to support ALL women.