She started it based on personal experiences of sexism. The particular example which was used was how she experienced three sexist comments and inappropriate behaviour in the space of a week. She also wanted other women to share their stories of sexism that they had faced, not just women but everyone who had had something said or done to them. She felt like not enough people were standing up for themselves and each other.
2) How does the Everyday Sexism project link to the concept of post-feminism? Is feminism still required in western societies?
This is another case to promote feminism as people are still finding it okay to shout inappropriate comments at women and women still don't talk up about it because they feel like its normal. That shows that there is still no balance and that men see women as sexual objects.
3) How can you apply Judith Butler's theory of gender as a 'performance' to the creation of the Everyday Sexism project?
The everyday sexism project hasn't divided the website into men and women. Not just women are allowed to share their opinions but it was made clear that anyone and not just men, people who recognise themselves as no gender or trans can post stories.
4) How does Angela McRobbie's work on female empowerment link to the Everyday Sexism project?
It subverts the whole project because the idea of the project is to give women and others a voice about the comments and actions that they have dealt with. McRbobbie's work on female empowerment encourages women to be glamorous as it is empowering for them and it is not done for men to see, 'male gaze'.
Read the article: The Fourth Wave? Feminism in the Digital Age in MM55 (p64)
1) Summarise the questions in the first two sub-headings: What is networked feminism? Why is it a problem?
Networked feminism is the idea that the proposed new wave, the fourth wave, uses new digital technology like the internet and social media to agrue and protest women's rights from a new perspective.
2) What are the four waves of feminism? Do you agree that we are in a fourth wave ‘networked feminism’?
The first wave of feminism was in the early 1900's and mainly involved the suffragette movements post world war 1. The second was is in 50's through til the 90's where the third wave started and this protested for more equality between men and women. The fourth wave is a newly proposed wave that includes the use of technology to fight and appeal for women's rights
3) Focus on the examples in the article. Write a 100-word summary of EACH of the following: Everyday Sexism, HeForShe, FCKH8 campaign, This Girl Can.
Everyday sexism:
Laura Bates started the everyday sexism project. This involved a website where not just women but a person of any identified sex could go and share stories about sexist comments or harassment they faced in everyday life. It grew rapidly and had many sharers and commentators. It brings up the argument to prove that there is still a need for feminism if women and others are still being treated as below men.
HeForShe
This was a campaign started by Emma Watson to encourage more men to learn about and understand that feminism isn't just about women and that men can play that part in fighting for equality for women and themselves. Other feminists did see the disadvantages as they are letting men in on a thing which was meant to be about women,
FCKH8
This is a for-profit organisation that spreads awarness of partly radical feminism through viral youtube videos. They also try to sell t-shirts by using 'new' techniques to engage people with feminism
This girl can
One of their petitions they started was to stop putting taxes on tampons as they compare it to other items like crocodile steak not being taxed and that an essential is now classed as a luxury.
4) What is your opinion with regards to feminism and new/digital media? Do you agree with the concept of a 'fourth wave' of feminism post-2010 or are recent developments like the Everyday Sexism project merely an extension of the third wave of feminism from the 1990s?
I don;t think that there is a fourth wave of feminism because technology has just offered a new way of mediating an s spreading peoples thoughts on a larger scale and hasn't brought many new ways to bring equality between men and women.
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