Third Wave Feminism---What do you Feel Should be the Goals?

Question

What goals do you think should be the most important to tackle for The Third Wave Feminism Movement? If listing more than one or two, please put them in order of importance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-wave_feminism

Answer 1

1. Women overseas.
2. Women of colour.
3. Women in poverty.
4. Amending laws we've previously pushed that are now giving women unfair advantages.
5. Improving birth control to make abortion unnecessary.
6. Improving work-family balance for everyone.
7. Increasing female participation in the sciences, law enforcement, the military, politics, and professional sports.
8. Reducing sexism in the media for both women and men.
9. Giving young girls some decent role models.
10. Ending stigma against voluntarily single, childless, and "career-primary" women.

Answer 2

As you will notice the one woman that answered so far can only bring up the year 1850. It's not 1850, it's 2010. Yet feminist like this woman believe she has suffered the fate of women in 1850 and that all men should suffer, but no man alive today has any connection to the year 1850. As you can see where the feminist mentality is. Do yourself a favor and just live your life. As a woman you have every opportunity as everyone else. Don't become involved with group or cult whichever that thrives on hatred, vengence and anger.

Answer 3

I really don't buy the seperation of feminism into waves. I understand why it is done but I prefer not to have it as my format.

I think that one of the goals for feminism today is to reach across races and cultures and make it relevant to more people through out the world. Of course I don't know any feminist who wants women's rights to be a white women only thing or ever did but the fact is that this is an important goal and a major area now for me.

Also I would like my part in the feminsm movement being deliberately connected to other movements for social justice. I think that many other feminists feel the same way.

I'm not just about women even in here because I can't see justice and human rights as cut into seperate categories.
Everyone has to concentrate their efforts and time on what is critical to them and I totally understand it and don't have a problem with it. I simply say that part of the wave of the future will be combinations like ecofeminism and indigenous feminism.

I'm not afraid that paired or mixed goals will dilute feminism in the 21st century I think they make feminism stronger and more real.

I can write soo much more about goals for 21stC feminism .. :)

Answer 4

One of the main things I'd like to see achieved is "some" men getting rid of their misconceptions about women.
Having these men become more open-minded and changing their ideas that all women are weak, worthless, bad mothers who just want to kill their children, overly emotional, unintelligent whores who have absolutely no moral standards whatsoever.
They need to realise that women were oppressed in days past and just because the Feminist movement produced a few bad eggs(and Patriarchy was perfect? Not by a long shot), it doesn't mean that all women should pay for the mistakes made of a few.

Answer 5

Feminism needs to be redefined from Wave's to World's.... second world Feminism would be issues of second wave and third world feminism would be issues of first wave feminism.... so defining what first world feminism means could answer your question. It could be those specific inequalities which are the reason so many men are the cause of crime despite apparant legal equality.

Answer 6

Overall, the importance of recognizing that people are just trying to get ahead or keep their heads above water. Gender has nothing to do with this reality.

Answer 7

I would guess that at least one of the aims would backfire. Quoting from the link you gave:

"Reclaiming derogatory terms.

Words such as "*****", "*****," and "****" continue to be used in derogatory ways to demean women. ... third-wave feminists generally believe that it's better (or easier) to change the meaning of a sexist word than to censor it from everyday speech. Many of these words did not originally have their modern connotations of power. "****", for example, comes from a sexually neutral Germanic root meaning "female genitalia". "

Yeah - that's going to go down a treat in schools. Are you guys sure you want to reclaim all this stuff as part of the third wave?? Have trolls infiltrated the feminist movement for a laugh????

Edit
Would Sesame Street ever dare to be brought to you by the letter C ever again? I think whoever bought into this reclaiming idea should reclaim their money back.

Answer 8

Continuing the conversation.

Cheers :-)

Answer 9

Increasing real self-esteem, self-knowledge, and accountability. Becoming able to see things from men's perspective, even if you don't agree. Stop celebrating single-motherhood.

Answer 10

Understanding that feminism has been highjacked by misandrists and moving on to close feminism and work toward GENUINE equality, instead of 'female preferred equality'.