“People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist.” PeopleThinkingWaySeemsYoungGirlGoneFeminismMediaCallingThirdsDancingWaveFeministEmpoweringPole Dancing Author:Jessica Valenti
“I saw an article where the manager of the Pussycat Dolls, which is kind of this like striptease band, girl band, said, oh well, the girls are totally third-wave feminist. This is what third-wave feminism is about. Like you don't get to use that word. You don't get to say that something is feminist as a way to sell back sexism to women, as a way to further consumerist ideas.” WayWellsKindSaidIdeasUseGirlSawsFeminismLike YouBandThirdsSellsWaveFeministManagersSexismArticlesDollsOh Well Author:Jessica Valenti
“The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.” ThinkingWorldWritingHelpingProblemPoliticalNextProcessFeminismMovementThirdsWaveDamageMentoring Author:Erica Jong
“There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.” FirstsGuyFoundFeminismWaveOne Direction Author:Amanda Palmer
“The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.” WayBelieveKindHas BeensImportantBigsMightMovingSocialTalkingFeminismMovementHappeningsHarderWaveSocial MovementsAmericana Author:Dar Williams
“Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising.” WayFeelsBigsTogetherHouseSoundPartyConsciousnessGroupsFeminismWaveHanging OutHouse Party Author:Ani DiFranco
“There were a few before me, there was a generation that started a little bit before me of women producers and Sherry Lansing, she was the first woman studio president, and she was really inspiring to me. I was inspired by other women in other fields, I was an adolescent in the 70s with the second wave feminism, and I got very inspired by that and felt like, you know what, there's no reason why I can't do this.” ReasonPresidentFeminismLike YouInspiredWaveProducers Author:Denise Di Novi
“I realized that women are still not seen as equal to men. We had a big wave of feminism just before my generation was born. We're still sitting on this wave. There are very militant people and very aggressive women at the top of that wave but I think we have a new version of it now.” PeopleThinkingMenFeminismEqualWaveI RealizedAggressiveMilitant Author:Carla Bruni
“Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.” KnowsWantIdeasBreakFeminismSpringEmpowermentThirdsMalesWaveOppressionDrunkDumbBreastsDistressConstructsFortsCitingArielGetting DrunkPatriarchal SocietyPersonal EmpowermentSpring Break Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.” ThinkingFirstsWarTodayFallCultureLinesNumbersWonderSeeingFeminismMovementPositionInternetWaveFeministFourthComic BookWorkplaceEnteringIconsIntersectionalityWonder WomanFeminist MovementGloria Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick
“The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).” MarriageFeminismCenturyBecomingHusbandMarriedWaveTreatedNineteenth CenturyGetting MarriedOlder WomenSpinsters Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions