zomg, i wrote a semi-related paper for 305 all those semesters ago.

wednesday's readings brought up the term 3rd wave feminism, which i hadn't heard in a long time, but i remember identifying myself as one for a time in high school. at least till other self-proclaimed feminists started pissing me off, so i started shying away from the title/category altogether.

anyway, the first i'd ever heard of 3rd wave feminism was from heather havrilesky via salon.com, which is mostly a cool ezine about a whole mish mash of stuff. (liberal slant, just warning the conservatives out there.) and in all honesty, the only reason i read the article was because at that time i was just itching to see the powerpuff girls movie, and henceforth was devouring any and all manner of summary, article, and review i could find, positive and negative. because, you know, i'm a freak.

i stumbled across havrilesky's article (the link to her blog, rabbitblog.com, is in the sidebar) and first came across the notion of a 3rd wave feminist. having had mixed feelings about the feminists i'd met so far, most of which came across as hostile women who overly resented the fact that men had a penis, 3rd wave feminism sounded pretty cool. and plus, havrilesky was relating it to the powerpuff girls. i was totally sold.

the article was an interesting read for me (well, for obvious reasons) and touched especially on the representation of kickass females in the media (which wound up being the topic of my research paper for 305). at the time, charlie's angels, alias, and the powerpuff girls were big, and sending out interesting messages about "the notion of being powerful and pretty." like i said, it's an interesting read, and here's the link to it (since salon requires you to have a subscription, non-subscribers have to watch a short ad to enter, then reenter the link in the toolbar. it isn't that much work, suck it up).