They wanted to society to stop viewing women as less superior to men and the predisposed view that women's place is in the household taking care of the kids and cleaning. Second wave feminists wanted to go into a career after gaining their degrees, rather than getting married and living the suburban life. They also fought for equal rights amendment and equal pay once more women started to go out into the workforce instead of staying home and taking care of the family. Third wave feminists aimed to try and create a better voice for women of all ethnicities and all the classes of society, as many of them disagreed with the second waves radical aspects. Third wave feminists also wanted to create public awareness on the issue of campus date and spousal rape as well as the sexual harassment that was occurring in the …show more content…
It calls for a radical reordering of a society in which male superiority is eliminated from all social and economic aspects. Radical feminists attempt to reorder the male superiority by challenging existing social norms, rather than through a political route in which they attempt to create legal changes. Radical feminists methods involved direct action to achieve their aims. They used conscious-raising groups, public protests, actively providing services and putting on art and cultural events. A notable protest that was at the hands of the radical feminists was the 1968, Miss America pageant. The feminists were trying to protest against the “sexist beauty ideas and radical expectations” of women's beauty. It is famous for being the place where the phrase ‘bra burner’ was first created, despite no bras ever being burnt at the protest that day, rather the women threw their bras and other items into a “Freedom trash can”. The radical feminist approach was criticized in early years for empahazing sez-based discrimination rather than race- or class- based discrimination.Throughout the years radical feminists were subject to ridicule as most perspectives of feminism were, many men however saw radical feminists as men-hating so they coped more