Talking about colorism is not “turning against skinned black people.” This is a Black issue, so maybe it’s something you don’t understand well enough to judge.

Oh, trust me, one day fifth and sixth wavers will be pointing out the assholish things the third and fourth wavers are doing and saying today.

In addition to that, there was some exclusion of women who were already working from the “women to work” movement. My mom’s from and still lives in Indiana. Her mom married a deadbeat and worked pretty much her entire life to support the kids and send them to Catholic schools. I think my mom was pretty pissed at the…

If there’s one battle the second wave definitely lost it was the one against porn. We not only have more of it today than ever before, and more of it misogynistic, but it’s become so ubiquitous and unstoppable that the third wave decided to accept it under the banner of sex positivity.

The second wavers may have been off base on a bunch of different stuff (race, lesbian rights, trans rights), but damn, today’s movement could use some of their boldness and their fire. Like it or not, they said a lot of things aloud that women today are afraid to even think.

And I don’t accept that feminism was a direct cause of Playboy ceasing to feature nudes. I think the decision had a lot more to do with the changes brought by the internet in the form of free porn, customizable to just about any taste and kink. How could Playboy compete with that?

For all that we might disagree with some of their analysis now, We owe those second-wavers so much. Great article, thanks!

Why did you un-grey this????

Your comment suggests that we have not come that far at all.

I agree. I think there’s also this ingrained American fear that if you engage in any way with a stranger child people will think you’re set on molesting them. After all, “stranger danger”, etc.

“Social contract” of whaaat? God, this American phobia of touching is so creepy. Glad I live in Latin America where a store clerk would helpfully snatch my baby from my arms if I have debris in my contact lens and no one would be weird about it. Pretty sure that actually happened to me at one point.

lol wut. The Irish had it bad off, to be sure, but they did not experience anything even remotely like systemic slavery. Arguments for such an idea are borne of pure white supremacist martyrdom complexes.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that there’s something fundamentally wrong with men who continue insisting that 18-year-old women are the most attractive women.

Umm...I’m a STEM person. Undergrad in computer engineering, working on a phd in computer science. So I’m speaking very much from my own experience here and from working with a lot of academic humanities people this year on a fellowship.

Are people in the hard sciences supposed to be exempt from socially progressive movements?

Serious students pursuing degrees in hard sciences have to study in locked rooms so that BLM people will not barge in and scream at them.

If anyone needs an object lesson in why kids and young teenagers can’t give informed consent, this is it.

These people exist. You may not have encountered them, but they do.

No one champions female catcalling.

Yeah, that’s pretty much the entire fucking point.