"One of my favorite Onion headlines from recent years was, “Women now empowered by everything a woman does.”
A similar headline could be written as the summary (and, I hope, the epitaph) of the Third Wave: “Feminism is anything a woman says, thinks, or feels.”
I hate to break it to the Third Wavers out there, and really this topic deserves a post or twenty of its own, but for me, as an Old Bat, the most stunning thing about the Third Wave of feminism has always been how unfeminist it is. There are some wonderful feminists in the Third Wave, but they are the exceptions. For the most part, it’s been a return to the pre-feminist, patriarchal snakepit: women tear each other down, accuse each other of being jealous schemers, stab each other in the back. It’s more like the 1950s than the 1970s. Young women of the backlash — and that’s what the Third Wave is, basically — have internalized the misogyny of the age. Other women aren’t sisters to be embraced, but threats to be feared and despised.
But because they know they’re supposed to be feminists, they tie themselves in knots trying to justify their misogyny as political enlightenment.
Over at Jezebel, a young feminist is explaining why she wants to kill Sarah Palin:..."
If you buy the argument by "young feminist," then anyone who has accomplished anything in life must be exterminated. I guess Obama is safe.
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