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Why do some people think quoting 2nd wave feminist's proves anything about feminists today, 30 years later?

  • Off and on I see anti-feminists or non-feminists quote someone from 20-30-40 years ago, from the 2nd wave of feminism, and use it as "evidence" that feminists are blah, blah, blah when it's now the 3rd wave of feminism. I don't know of a social movement that remains the same after 5 years, let alone 20-40 years, so why do they think it matters what men or women from 2nd wave feminism said, anymore than it matters what 1st wave feminist's said 100 years ago? I was part of the 2nd wave of feminism-it was a big deal-30 years ago. When will these people stop living in the past and deal with feminism of today? Or is that the problem, they don't know how to deal with feminism of today, so they obsess about feminism of the past?

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    And they complain that feminists spend too much time worrying about the rights we didn't have decades ago. Something hypocritical this way comes.

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There's a good chance that men who obsessively quote second-wave feminists are actually just threatened by the idea of women's equality.

Ambrose Hussein

dont you hate it when you ask a question like this...and you really have several people in mind that you would really like to hear from ie the people doing such.... they never answer. I'm with ya!

Untamed Rose

I made a post about this exact issue about 3 days ago, they DO tend to dig up crap by idiotics from 25 years ago. Then again half of feminist arguments out there involve bringing up crap that women went through 200 years ago as justification for treating men like Bulls*hit today. All in all, idiocracy(lol) knows no gender.

Lostfan

Why do feminist quote men from 2,0000 years ago?.

50/50 to 50

You may as well ask when will reality triumph over rhetoric, which has a nice sort of ring to it, as a question. People erect, or in this case resurrect a straw man argument to attack the image that they built themselves as if it somehow proves a point. Which of course it does. Just not generally the point they are trying to make.

Twilight

A winner learns from the past. A loser lives in it.

DAVID K

It's very easy to make Andrea Dworkin or Robin Morgan into monsters and targets of hatred and ridicule, because if they didn't they'd have to face the reality that 21st century feminism isn't the horror they think it is and it hasn't ruined their lives. What would they construct their paranoid fears from? I'm also wondering what the hell they're teaching these kids today in Women's Studies classes. They think feminism is what they see in school, and that couldn't be further from the truth.

Baba Yaga

Well, I think that part of the problem is that newer feminist writers are not usually immediately added to WS curriculums- we see the works of older, more established and more published (2nd or 1st wave) feminists. I agree that some older theories are funky- reading about maternalism makes me feel sick.

snorzle

it's this forum...i'm convinced there's a bunch of middle-aged divorced, bitter men who overrun this forum... they constantly bring up dworkin and NOW, etc.. sorry, but these are not very relevant to feminists today. these men live in the past....and want to resurrect the past (patriarchy). down with patriarchy! and down with the retro-men of Y/A!

Jo

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