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CMV: Modern Feminism is doing the opposite of what they hope to achieve

Edit: the issue is primarily with the extremist activists who would preach their ideology of feminism under the same banner as a more sensible group. Extremists being individuals who would put down the other gender in the fight for equality.

My view is primarily that the second-third wave of feminism causes more harm than good by causing animosity towards the people preaching it. 

It may seem like an overstatement, but any time I hear the word patriarchy spoken seriously, or see that what should be a fight for equal rights is really just a focus on one half of the population, they are causing more of a divide than if they were to say nothing at all.

Saying this, there are very real issues in the middle-east that I can say do warrant feminism as there is a true patriarchy there, and I feel that the western-world's feminist problems are a joke compared to say, institutionalized racism or the middle-east.

CMV.

(p.s. The majority, but not all, of my experience with this issue comes from online, I've only met a couple of radical modern-feminists in real life).
gpt
First wave feminism primarily focused on ways in which women were legally oppressed, and made great strides in that.

The problem is that we still have a great deal of *cultural* oppression. The concept of "patriarchy" is perhaps not the best way to phrase things, but it's really not about male-hating. It's about an entire culture designed around women being primarily valuable for their appearance and reproductive potential, rather than as fully actualized human beings. 

Sure, plenty of cultures *still* have that legal oppression that is much more obvious (and therefore, actually, much easier to fight). That doesn't mean that there's nothing left for feminism to fight in western cultures. Women still experience glass ceilings, are expected to take primary child care duties, and are rated as more *competent* when they wear makeup. 

That's what 2nd wave feminism was focused on, and if you don't think they were successful, then you have a very strange view that culturally the 1950s and 2010 present the same opportunities to women, and there's nothing that has improved with regards to women's actual opportunities.

We're still only *now* seeing the possibility of a female president in the U.S., and as long as the people in power are largely men we'll still have a long way to go even on the things 2nd wave feminism is concerned with.

3rd wave feminism is primarily about how 1st and 2nd wave feminism have largely only improved the lot of (comparatively) rich white women in the modern era.

Indeed, one of their bigger focuses is on *exactly* those legal barriers that women still face in much of the 3rd world, and in subcultures imported from those areas. 

Don't confuse the rhetoric of the extremist members of a movement for the goals of the movement itself.