And here we were having a very nice discussion without pointing out any potentially controversial/mindkilling examples. Using the phrasing of second and third wave doesn’t make it less subtle or less potentially mindkilling.
In the specific case which you are not so obliquely referencing, there’s a pretty strong argument that much of thirdwave feminism has strands from first and second wave, while also agreeing on the most basic premises.
It is also worth noting in this context, that movements (wherever they are politically) aren’t in general after rational discussion or true beliefs but at accomplishing specific goal sets. You will in any diverse movement find some strains that are more or less interested in rational discussion, but criticizing a movement for its failure to embody rationality is not by itself a very useful criticism.
It is the big obvious current example where the ideological battle is between “second wave” and “third wave” and the first wave is barely mentioned. I encounter it in relation to the UK social justice Twittersphere, which is tangential to the more Kankri Vantas stretches of Tumblr. (Or, more accurately, the Porrim Maryam stretches.)
Edit: Can anyone think of another field described as having numbered waves where the battle was between second and third?
I’m pretty sure that’s what TimS was talking about given his use of the phrases “second wave” and “third wave”. It is especially clear because if one was going to be talking about a generic example and using the term wave, one would in the same context have likely discussed the first wave v. the second wave. The off-by-one only makes sense in that specific historical context.
Oppositely, the second and third waves immediately screamed ‘feminism’ to me, but I couldn’t assemble the rest of the analogy. The third wave has plenty of legitimate differences and similarities with both the first and second waves. I’m still not sure what TimS was getting at.
And here we were having a very nice discussion without pointing out any potentially controversial/mindkilling examples. Using the phrasing of second and third wave doesn’t make it less subtle or less potentially mindkilling.
In the specific case which you are not so obliquely referencing, there’s a pretty strong argument that much of thirdwave feminism has strands from first and second wave, while also agreeing on the most basic premises.
It is also worth noting in this context, that movements (wherever they are politically) aren’t in general after rational discussion or true beliefs but at accomplishing specific goal sets. You will in any diverse movement find some strains that are more or less interested in rational discussion, but criticizing a movement for its failure to embody rationality is not by itself a very useful criticism.
Um, I had not linked the parent of your comment to any specific movement until you pointed out the possible existence of such a link …
It is the big obvious current example where the ideological battle is between “second wave” and “third wave” and the first wave is barely mentioned. I encounter it in relation to the UK social justice Twittersphere, which is tangential to the more Kankri Vantas stretches of Tumblr. (Or, more accurately, the Porrim Maryam stretches.)
Edit: Can anyone think of another field described as having numbered waves where the battle was between second and third?
I’m pretty sure that’s what TimS was talking about given his use of the phrases “second wave” and “third wave”. It is especially clear because if one was going to be talking about a generic example and using the term wave, one would in the same context have likely discussed the first wave v. the second wave. The off-by-one only makes sense in that specific historical context.
Oppositely, the second and third waves immediately screamed ‘feminism’ to me, but I couldn’t assemble the rest of the analogy. The third wave has plenty of legitimate differences and similarities with both the first and second waves. I’m still not sure what TimS was getting at.