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Lisa Jones wrote on Jun 16 th, 2016 at 4:48pm: Aussie wrote on Jun 16 th, 2016 at 12:56pm: Mistress Nicole wrote on Jun 16 th, 2016 at 11:17am: @ Culture Warrior Quote:The third wave is where 'victim' politics goes full retard. While the theory of oppression was also present in the previous two waves, it begins to concoct strange theories like a 'rape culture', 'micro-aggressions', and 'triggering'. It also extended the 'victim' politics to all minorities groups, regardless if they're victims or not. For example, a disabled, black, female Muslim would be granted the highest 'victim' status.
The task of feminism has been completed, and this is why they move onto being 'freedom fighters' for groups that have nothing to do with feminism.
You nailed it Culture Warrior. Succinct and spot on. Rubbish. That is totally rejected here: Quote:The third wave of feminism began in the mid-90's and was informed by post-colonial and post-modern thinking. In this phase many constructs were destabilized, including the notions of "universal womanhood," body, gender, sexuality and heteronormativity. An aspect of third wave feminism that mystified the mothers of the earlier feminist movement was the readoption by young feminists of the very lip-stick, high-heels, and cleavage proudly exposed by low cut necklines that the first two phases of the movement identified with male oppression. Pinkfloor expressed this new position when she said that it's possible to have a push-up bra and a brain at the same time.
The "grrls" of the third wave stepped onto the stage as strong and empowered, eschewing victimization and defining feminine beauty for themselves as subjects, not as objects of a sexist patriarchy. They developed a rhetoric of mimicry, which appropriated derogatory terms like "slut" and "bitch" in order to subvert sexist culture and deprive it of verbal weapons. The web is an important tool of "girlie feminism." E-zines have provided "cybergrrls" and "netgrrls" another kind of women-only space. At the same time — rife with the irony of third-wave feminism because cyberspace is disembodied — it permits all users the opportunity to cross gender boundaries, and so the very notion of gender has been unbalanced in a way that encourages experimentation and creative thought.
This is in keeping with the third wave's celebration of ambiguity and refusal to think in terms of "us-them." Most third-wavers refuse to identify as "feminists" and reject the word that they find limiting and exclusionary. Grrl-feminism tends to be global, multi-cultural, and it shuns simple answers or artificial categories of identity, gender, and sexuality. Its transversal politics means that differences such as those of ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, etc. are celebrated and recognized as dynamic, situational, and provisional. Reality is conceived not so much in terms of fixed structures and power relations, but in terms of performance within contingencies. Third wave feminism breaks boundaries. Link [url] http://www.pacificu.edu/about-us/news-events/four-waves-feminism[/url] Oh dear... Aussies ten second search of Google and subsequent copy paste supports my views, not yours.
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