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Could We Be in a Fourth Wave of Feminism?


With amazing movements like the Time's Up Now and #MeToo movement, the end of 2017 and start of 2018 has seen some amazing protest regarding women's rights. I was talking with my friend Jessie and we were saying there's definitely a sense of change in the air.. you can feel it. It feels like 2018 is the time for sexual harassment, domestic abuse, assault and inequality to end. Women and men across the globe have been sharing their stories, protesting and supporting each other and the words 'self love' have never seemed more important.

It seems people have had enough of the abuse and inequalities women face on a daily basis and it's time for feminism to lose the bad name. It should never have had a bad name in the first place but its time to unlearn the backwardness of the past and move forward. It's time to relearn respect for human beings no matter their gender, sex, race, class, age etc and to follow that simple rule you learn when you're like four: treat others how you would like to be treated. 

Social media has had a great role to play in these amazing protests; it's aided the movements and given people a voice showing how we are progressing. It's a shame that we've had to move through so many feminist waves to get to this point. However, what the women of the first, second and third waves did was so crucial for the fight for equality and is even more motivation for the movements that are happening now. There's still a lot to be done for women's rights but things certainly feel like they're heading in the right direction.
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