Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The Fourth Wave of Feminism and What it Would Look Like

I decided to change my thesis statement a little bit as to look and search that if there was to be a fourth wave of feminism, what it would look like and what would it involve. This topic interests me because after reading the last readings all three of the waves pretty much discussed the same thing. Equality for women, but it seemed to me that the vision lost its focus. How can men and women be equal to each other? Clearly you can see men are built bigger and stronger than women (now a day’s …well I think the steroids that are fed to cows and the chemicals that are sprayed on the plants may have a bit to do with the shift) even if you have one that works out, a woman cannot get as big as a man can. (I am talking the majority of men not all), our brains our bodies function differently, so I ask again, what was this fight all about? I believe that for five decades feminism was fighting a losing battle. I am however still searching for the discovery of when did the awareness begin for domestic violence. I think I found it but am still researching more to confirm my conclusion. However the most exciting part about this paper is the revision of the Good Wife’s Guide…not so much a revision. I couldn’t decide on how to revise it so I went into a totally other direction. I think you will be interested in how it turns out. My discovery on the Fourth Wave of Feminism is that men and women can co-exist. It’s all about compromise, and making each other happy, not being on separate teams but the same team. After all isn’t it apart of the same family? I am very excited about this paper, it is probably the first paper and project that I really got into and had fun with. It allowed me to really see for myself, where it all went wrong. I got a lot of insight on the fact that feminism has been a waste of time, because it lost what women are all about, and I also discovered why men have been acting the way they have. Through a feminist movement we lost our femininity. We are no longer women, when we are fighting to be equal to men. To be equal to men, you are asking to be treated like one of the boys. When the men do that we get mad because we aren’t respected, so it isn’t equality that we are looking for it is appreciation, and respect that we hunger after. Admiration and gratefulness of what we do on a daily basis, and how much we accomplish in spite of everything going on around us. To be looked at as a household administrator and not just a housekeeper. That in order for the man’s world to be in order, the woman has to be in order. We are the glue that holds everything together. It’s a shame to recognize this now, but a true feminist movement is the ability to maintain our femininity and recognition at the same time. That isn’t too much to ask for. To eliminate all stereotypes of what a feminist looks like, because she could be the one sitting right next to you and you wouldn’t even know it.