Watch this TEDx talk by Everyday Sexism founder Laura Bates:
1) Why did Laura Bates start the Everyday Sexism project?
Laura Bates started the everyday sexism project because she has been sexually harassed a lot. When she tried to speak about it and asked other women whether they have most of them admitted it. But they do not spoken about it to anyone.
2) How does the Everyday Sexism project link to the concept of post-feminism? Is feminism still required in western societies?
This everyday sexism project links to the concept of post-feminism as this project can help women a lot more to speak about it. This can also decrease chances of other women being sexually harassed. Feminism is still required in western society because still till this day in some work places. Institutions pay more salary to men than women.
3) Why was new technology essential to the success of the Everyday Sexism project?
This helped create more awareness of every women around the world that they can speak about it. This platform helps women speak out. That till this day women are not always equal to men till this day.
4) Will there be a point in the future when the Everyday Sexism project is not required? What is YOUR view on the future of feminism?
I think no because this project helps the world become a better place for women to live in. This project helps there be equality between women and men this is a little push for the women around the world.
Media Magazine: The fourth wave?
Read the article: The Fourth Wave? Feminism in the Digital Age in MM55 (p64). You'll find the article in our Media Magazine archive here.
1) Summarise the questions in the first two sub-headings: What is networked feminism? Why is it a problem?
The new fourth wave of feminism is also known as ‘networked feminism’. it aims to tackle social equality issues found both on, and using, modern technology. Thousands of campaigns, blogs and hashtags have been used to spur on the feminist upheaval.
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’ began in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, with a main focus on suffrage. The ‘second wave’ began in the 1960s, campaigning for the growth of equal rights and leading to the Equal Pay Act of 1970, amongst other equality laws. Since the late 1990s, we are believed to have entered the ‘third wave’. The new fourth wave of feminism is also known as ‘networked feminism’.
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: An ideal beginning stage is the Everyday Sexism
crusade. The undertaking was begun by Laura Bates in 2012 as a site which
posted instances of sexism that clients confronted each day. Laura set it up in
the wake of discovering woman's rights hard to discuss, saying: 'Over and over,
individuals disclosed to me sexism is never again an issue – that ladies are
equivalent at this point'. The reaction she got demonstrated in an unexpected
way, with 50,000 passages of misogynist encounters. After three years, Everyday
Sexism is a standout amongst the most high-perceivability women's activist
advanced crusades, ostensibly because of its client created substance and its
well-utilized #EverydaySexism Twitter channel.
FCKH8: One of the most popular digital campaigns is the FCKH8 campaign, and more specifically the ‘Potty Mouth Princess’. However, FCKH8 is actually a for- profit company, and the video is in fact trying to sell its t-shirts. This exploitation of feminism as an advertising tool created a huge backlash.
This Girl Can: This Girl Can campaign, which has been described as the first fitness campaign for women which doesn’t shame or exclude them, by sharing photos, videos and quotes of women without the usual sexual exploitation of a women’s fitness advert and without body shaming.
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 feel like feminism is a positive thing as this creates more equality between both genders. Even till this day in most countries women and men are still not seen equally and usually mistreated. New digital media helps us to create more awareness of the mistreated females. I feel like we are in between the 'third wave' and the 'fourth wave'. There are some improvements but they are not major.
