Feminism around the world has a multitude of different causes, goals, and intentions depending on time, culture, and country. Most Western feminist historians contend that all movements working to obtain women’s rights should be considered feminist movements. Other historians limit the term to the modern feminist movement and what that movement spawned. They instead use the label “protofeminist” to describe earlier movements.

Feminist history is split into three time waves, each slightly different. The first wave of feminism came in the 19th and early 20th centuries focuses on overturning legal inequalities, particularly women’s suffrage. The second wave from the 1960s through the 1980s broadened the debate to include cultural inequalities, gender norms, and the role of women in society. The third wave 1990s-2000s includes a wide range of feminist activity. It is seen as both a continuation of the second wave and a response to its perceived failures.

The first wave of feminism active mainly in the English-speaking world that sought to win women’s suffrage, female education rights, better working conditions, and abolition of gender double standards. This wave is widely considered to have ended with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Second wave feminists fought social and cultural inequalities beyond basic political inequalities. The movement encouraged women to understand aspects of their personal lives as deeply politicized and reflective of a sexist power structure. The movement focused on other cultural equality issues, such as ending discrimination. Due to the diverse origins from which feminist groups had coalesced and intersected, and the complexity of the issues involved, the movement was heavily criticized for its lack of voice given to the most oppressed women, its lack of emphasis on the inequalities of race and class, and its distance from the issues that divide women.
While the third wave was response to what young women perceived as failures of the second-wave. It also responds to a backlash against the second-wave’s initiatives and movements.

A fourth wave has recently developed within the feminist movement. Jennifer Baumgardner identifies this fourth wave as starting in 2008 and continuing into the present day. The ideolog of the fourth wave feminist has shifted to include queer theory, which, is an approach to literary and cultural study that rejects traditional categories of gender and sexuality, and is Trans* inclusive. It is also Anti-Misandrist.

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What I’ve stated above is by historic-definition what feminism has been up to the fourth wave and in few circles, is what the fourth wave is focused on today; but, and this is a big but. Most of the current millennial’s movement is made up of countless small groups who differ greatly in their views and their message. There is no one movement. The technology caused overload of instantaneous information exchange has given voices to every crackpot who opens a twitter or facebook account. It is because of this and because the mainstream media almost exclusively publicizes the more radical groups, that the movement is seem widely as a bunch of misandrist, vulgar, hyper-sexualized, morons hollering about their woman parts. The true movement has been lost, absorbed and hidden the leftist-socialist rhetoric spewing from whichever current face of the movement in the public eye.

The argument has been made by many fourth wave feminists that muslim women are the true feminists. Muslim women are among the most oppressed and abused women on the face of the planet. Fourth wave feminists are delusional in this sense. Muslims are not feminists at all. They are oppressed women dominated by their male counterparts. PERIOD! It cannot be argued. I have witnessed firsthand having served in muslim countries how their women are treated. I can tell you without hesitation and with ardent resolve that muslim women; in many cases are second class citizens. In many cases they cannot own property, they cannot vote, they often cannot drive– I can go on but what’s the point.

The bottom line here is political ideology has taken a front seat to everything else. Socialism is firmly embedded in fourth wave feminism and drives the direction. Today it is vulgar outbursts and outrageous actions are primarily what mark where feminism is going. All to often that course changes based on the talking points of any given day.
Personally I do not agree with  Jennifer. This is not the fourth wave of feminism. The third wave has been quite literally hi-jacked by morons push a completely different agenda. Their complaints are smokescreens for the true agenda they are pushing. True feminist empower women, raise them up. They do so through strength and strong character, not vagina costumes and vulgar speeches, and especially not by tearing down men. Feminism is about equality of the sexes not feminist domination.