Is it terrible to see feminism as a movement that needs to be converted into something greater?
1. Feminism means many different things, depending on time period and context. There is no one single concept that is “feminism”
2. If the person saying the word feminist can’t define what they mean by it, does the someone else have every justification for rolling his eyes? If the person who rolls his eyes cannot define what he thinks a feminist is, does that give the speaker every justification for murdering him with a clear conscience (metaphorically, of course)? It’s good to know what you’re talking about.
3. It is not terrible to see feminism as “a movement” that needs to turn into something greater. In fact, it’s imperative that we do. It’s how 1st wave feminism became 2nd wave, how 2nd wave became 3rd wave. It’s all that time in between when people started thinking that the existing discourse wasn’t good enough, and something had to change. Is this generation going to sit around and be happy with what previous generations did and say “sure, I mean, they got everything right so we can just leave it there,” while the term feminist itself becomes a two-dimensional buzzword? I sure hope not.
Let’s go read up on our theory and figure out how we want to engage with the world.
