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3rd wave feminism has made notable progress for civil rights

I feel bad because I knew this would happen. First, there are no provisions that 3rd Wave has directly impacted anything in the above presentation. Sex Positive Feminism (http://en.wikipedia.org...) began in the 1980s and the Free-Love movement is from the 1960's however Third wave is presented as a 90's movement, "Third-wave feminism is a term identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study, whose exact boundaries in the historiography of feminism are a subject of debate, but are generally marked as beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present. The movement arose partially as a response to the perceived failures of and backlash against initiatives and movements created by second-wave feminism during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, and the perception that women are of "many colors, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds".[1] Rebecca Walker coined the term "third-wave feminism" in a 1992 essay." (http://en.wikipedia.org...) There's a chronological error. This means that, "The sex positive aspect of third wave feminism has resulted in the mellinial generation becoming the most accepting of other sexual orientations and genders." is unsupported by the general happenstance after the world's sexual revolution and other major occurrences and movements that happened prior to the birth of 3rd wave feminism. Transgenderism (http://en.wikipedia.org...) has been active for years long prior to the inception of 3rd Wave Feminism, I would point to the 1970's and 1980's specifically as the beginning of the tide of what would become the fruition seen in the 1990's and 2000's. Much like presidential plans most of the effects of a movement aren't seen for years after it's creation and the same goes here; Transgenderism has not been shown to directly correlate with 3rd wave's progression as claimed here above. What is true is that 3rd wave supports (as proven by my opponent) Transgenderism but 3rd wave also supports racial issues and a wide array of groups which does not mean that it directly impacted the actual presence of modern political and social placement for these issues. The battle had been waged for years. However the claim was not that 3rd wave supports the cause. The claim was that 3rd wave has furthered the cause. It has the same failings as the previous claim that 3rd wave has somehow furthered sexual openness when it is relatively sensible to attribute this to the major shifts in the country (and world) revolving around the sexual revolutions and movements that were en mass at least 30 years prior to the decade of the birth of 3rd wave feminism. For the small list of achievements: 1. "This data snapshot highlights several differences in educational opportunities between males and females from prekindergarten through higher education. The information herein, gathered from a variety of education data sources, shows that"despite the enormous progress made in ensuring equal educational opportunities since the passage of Title IX in 1972"much work remains if we are to achieve full gender equity among our nation"s students." ( http://www2.ed.gov... ) 1972: (https://www.aclu.org...) The concept had been established long prior. This is a 2nd wave battle and this is a continuation of that molding instead of a "victory". Not only that but again it proves support, which is not equivalent to direct intervention, from the 3rd wave community. It is not a product of 3rd wave thinking and furthermore it is only being listed as such because of when it occurred instead of accurately being assessed for it's actual value and involvement with the 3rd wave movement. The only other example I will example is the Gender Equality Duty of 2007 (http://wnc.equalities.gov.uk...) which is indeed a victory for 3rd wave. Sadly this is the only thing my opponent has posted which has validity. It has since been replaced by a new act in 2010 which covers far more than just gender such as age, disability, etc. Even using Pros definition for 3rd wave he has not shown with any clear indication most of his examples to be attributed even in part let alone in significance to 3rd wave feminism.