Bitch Planet and 3 waves of feminism (week 5)



As I was reading Bitch Planet, in class we noticed that women in the comic are very aggressive bad violent in the story. I think that this comic wants to not only portray women as violent but also bad asses too. Bad ass women who are fighting for their rights instead of treated not as equals. As I was reading the three way of feminism, I found it particularly interesting to  go through each wave and see where women have made some accomplishments. The first wave was more about women rights movements like Seneca falls and colored women right movements. The second wave was focused more on the oppressed groups like black and homosexuals. The third wave challenges universal womanhood. This article has opened my mind to man things about women during this time and all the rights they had to fight for like voting. The Bitch Planet novel also times back to the three waves of feminism. 


What I found most interesting about this read was that in back then that women are required to be modest and not wield any influence and not engage in public activity. Women are supposed to work at home and take care of the kids. As said in the article, “when woman spoke in public, she was, by definition, display masculine behavior”. Like women speaking out is more masculine, why can’t it just be called speaking your mind which everyone in America had the right to do. Women back then were supposed to sit quiet and look pretty for their husbands instead of speck out. Apparently women are supposed to be fragile and  are supposed to protect their reproductive abilities instead of argue for their rights which I think is not right. But over time people found that, women and men, at least in legal terms are found to be equal and respected. 

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