Third wave feminism

Graphic depicting one of the inherent contradictions within feminist ideology.

Modern feminism is generally known as third wave feminism although some feminists are now talking about post-third wave or fourth wave feminism. Modern feminists generally believe in rape culture, overwhelming levels of street harassment and the patriarchy.

Equality

There are many people in the wider community who profess to support gender equality and openly call themselves feminists. It is reasonable to conclude that the majority of people who make this claim are honest in their belief. The evidence is that most feminists who identify feminism with gender equality are not part of organised feminism. They profess feminism but are typically not involved in any feminist organisations, do not attend feminist meetings, do not read feminist books any more (if they ever did) and rarely even read feminist web sites. In a sense they are islands of feminism disconnected from the mainstream of the movement.

Many of those people seem oblivious to radical feminism and how entrenched it is in modern academia. It is organised feminism, feminism in academia, that young women in gender studies and women's studies courses listen to and it is feminism in academia that has the ear of the modern political establishment.

Feminism is not a static philosophy and people who identify as feminists ought to remain abreast of modern feminist ideology. Institutional feminists are increasingly rejecting the notion that men can be feminists, instead referring to them as feminist allies.

Radical feminism may not be the only form of feminism but the alternatives today are largely inactive, and therefore largely irrelevant.

Feminists all too often insistent that to reject feminism is to reject gender equality. This would only be true if feminism were the only manner in which gender equality could be addressed. Even if we accept that feminists believe in gender equality, it does not follow that feminism has a monopoly on gender equality. Feminism is an ideology. As such alternative view points (those of other ideologies, or a lack of ideology) must be possible. Being an ideology feminism cannot be the sole manner in which gender equality can be viewed. The notion that one cannot believe in equality without being a feminist is essentially equivalent to a claim that one cannot believe in a God without identifying as a Christian.

Violence

Increasingly organised groups of feminists are resorting to violence to push their agenda. Particularly egregious examples have occured in South America, and various locations in Canada including Toronto, Kingston and Ottawa. In engaging in this disruptive and at times threatening behaviour feminists are attempting to silence opposition rather than endeavouring to respond with cogent arguments.

Embracing menstruation

Feminists spend a lot of time talking about their vaginas (often referring to their vulvas) and menstrual blood. In recent years we've seen feminists paint and apply facials with their menstrual blood. We have also seen them bake bread with their vaginal yeast and female urine.

Key Traits

Feminism has the following key traits:

• Feminism always seeks to maximise women's choices
• Feminism always seeks to minimise women's responsibilities
• Feminism always seeks to control the narrative
• Feminism adds subjective value judgements to a topic and then claims female superiority
• Feminism rejects any inate differences between men and women beyond morphological differences
• Feminism is inherently internally inconsistent
• Feminism is run by radical feminists
• Equity feminists are inactive feminists
• Despite seeking to maximise women's choices, feminists will object if they think woman have made the wrong choices
• Feminists will not accept or acknowledge that women can ever benefit from interacting with men

Quotes

Everything about Feminism is a cruel irony. They want men to share their feelings but call them crybabies once they do. They want to do things for themselves but get upset when men don't do enough to support them. They want the chance to participate in all aspects of life that men do, but then want lighter requirements to do so. And of course, they want men to keep their distance as a whole, but then chastise them for doing exactly that. It's a movement of no one having any idea of what they're about. It's why it will fail, because they fail to see they have everything they want, and still complain they have nothing... because, in the end, all they want is to be victims. --Chris Votey, Facebook, April 24, 2020.

See Also

• Second wave feminism

External Links

• What is feminism

Feminist Sites

The best way to argue against feminism is to quote feminists themselves. Below is a selection of mainstream feminist sites for reference.

• Feminist Philosophers
• Finally Feminism 101
• Feminist Studies Journal
• Everyday Feminism
• London Feminist Network

Other Sites

• Institute of Public Affairs argues against feminist ideology in psychology
• Feminism the Institution
• A Guide for Male Feminists
• The ten most common feminist myths
• Science vs Feminism
• Psychology Today
• Why I No Longer Identify as a feminist
• Feminism has become obsessed with victimhood
• Three myths of victim feminism