Culture Wars are the opposing opinions around a topic; in the case of what Heywood is writing about, this is feminism. She speaks a lot on the differences between 2nd and 3rd wave feminists, and the gaps in their beliefs/practices that can cause friction, although at the end of the day they are both striving for a world of equality. This can cause outsiders to have false views of the movement, like the common belief that feminists “hate men” and truly think that women are better. This is mostly caused by the “unapologetic” nature of 3rd wave feminism. One quote from page 8 of the Heywood reading that I felt really helped this to come across is “The  lived messiness  characteristic  of  the  third  wave  is what  de-fines  it: girls who want to be boys,  boys who want  to  be girls,  boys andgirls  who  insist  they  are  both,  whites  who  want  to  be  black,  blackswho  want  to  or  refuse  to  be white,  people  who  are white  and  black,gay and  straight,  masculine and  feminine, or  who  are finding ways  tobe  and  name  none  of  the  above.”

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