/lit/ - Literature

>>9326898
>expand on this (if you wish)

Certainly, I will - at least a bit.

Rupi Kaur's poetic debut took place during a time when third-wave feminism was at its peak.

During the years approaching the 2016 American election, the world saw an explosive increase in feminist, body activist, and transgender news in main-stream media. This, in turn, gave birth to a slough of secondary and informal reporting sources heavily focused on promoting or condemning these views. It likewise birthed several small-time celebrities, such as Milo Yiannopoulos, Tess Holliday, Caitlyn Jenner, Anita Sarkeesian, Jordan Peterson, and Ashley Graham - with Rupi among them. I consider this phenomena to have peaked in 2016 - when individuals on both sides had the most to gain or lose by proselytizing.

However, since the close of the 2016 American election, third wave feminism is rapidly loosing steam. Liberal media outlets no longer have as vested an interest in pushing these views, and the conservative right no longer has as imminent a need to pay attention to them.

What was always clear, to me, and is becoming increasingly clear to the general public is, third-wave feminism and its bedfellows are shallow. They are shallow, in the sense that they lack a deep-rooted connection to the serious issues currently plaguing society, or a substantial connection to what it is to be a man or a woman - in a timeless sense. The more subject a given movement is to its time and culture, the more certain we can be that it will be short-lived. In the case of third-wave feminism, that life span seems to be nearing its end already.