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#1: 3rd wave feminism in a 3rd world country

I'm going to follow what Ian did in the podcast by starting off with a YouTube reference. While researching for this episode, I came across a video by the channel "Autumn On Venus", in which a woman claims not to identify as a feminist and that she hates Third Wave feminism due to how they "do not fight for equality". I could not sympathise with her thoughts because we disagreed on what this Third Wave actually stood for. I should have noted that this was a danger of constraining the discussion of feminism through the use of waves.  A discussion on a broad political ideology constrained within the 30 to 45 minute range is bound to be comparatively shallow, even if the topic we discussed was set within the parameters of a Third World country. It is important that we challenge the foundational assumption of the episode, that it is acceptable or in any way productive to frame the struggles and fights of the feminist movement through its different waves. We aim to e...