this video is brought to you by curiositystream the best way to watch thousands of award-winning documentaries and non-fiction movies and tv shows the women's movement jesus christ i haven't even had coffee yet what makes a true modern feminist that's what we're unpacking with our new series feminism and pop culture the future wave each video will be dedicated to one of feminism's many faces past and present and how it's represented in pop culture seventh wave feminism is all about owning our sexuality in order to understand what the reality of supporting all women and gender equality actually looks like as our culture collectively revisits the misogynistic treatment of the britney's paris's and meghans of the NUMBER_TOKENs we have to ask why was this era so deeply toxic for women a key answer to this question is a thing called post-feminism this outlook puts forward the idea that we live in a post-feminist society i.e one in which misogyny and sexism are over and therefore feminism is no longer necessary you suffered so much growing up in middle class paris i mean the agony in the trenches of the sorbone and the post-feminist era many female-led stories in the early NUMBER_TOKENs seemed to celebrate that feminism had delivered women all the freedom and options they could ask for but also to suggest that all those choices weren't actually making women happier as post-feminism became more entrenched in the NUMBER_TOKENs high-profile women avoided identifying as feminist i'm not a feminist i i hail men i love men while tabloid culture and gossip blogs cultivated an environment of aggressive accepted misogyny that in hindsight is pretty shocking thank you britney spears being bad is good for my business yet to this day many still claim we live in a post-feminist society the central problem with post-feminism's assertion that sexism has been solved is that it makes it difficult if not impossible to call out instances of misogyny and discrimination when they still happen hello trampy dress hello here's our take on the myth of post-feminism and why the crucial first step of fighting sexism and misogyny is admitting they're there
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