New film takes on feminism; filmmaker unimpressed with “third wave”

“I Was a Teenage Feminist,” a new film by Therese Shechter, is being debuted at the Chicago Filmmakers event this Saturday. Though I definitely want to see the movie, while reading this review in the Chicago Sun-Times, I couldn’t help but succumb to some eye-rolling.
Shechter, who was a feminist as a teenager, found that as a 40-year-old that “she hadn’t even thought about feminism in years.”
[The movie is] just the story of Shechter’s quest to figure out, as she puts it, “What happened to my feminism? Did I lose it or did it lose me?”
Shechter believed that whole line about being anything you wanted to be…Somehow, for those of us raised on the 1970s version of girl power, life feels surprisingly complicated. Because no one told about all the trade-offs and compromises and no-U-turn detours that are part of life as a modern woman.
I’m sorry, but this is feminism’s fault? Feminism somehow lied to women because we still have to make trade-offs?
It also seems like Shechter is trying to figure out where “her” feminism went:
…After meeting some serious “third-wave” feminists, who devote their lives to activism, vegetarianism and a few other -isms, Shechter declares in frustration, “If I’m not a queer woman of color on public assistance, I don’t rate.”
Cry me a river. Am I really supposed to believe that straight, white, middle class women are being marginalized in today’s feminism?
From this review of the film, it seems that Shechter wants a perfect-fit feminism that will sell itself to her. This just annoys the shit out of me. Is feeling comfortable and unchallenged more important than just getting in there and doing the work?
But I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised, considering this movie comes from someone who “decides to stop asking questions about the socio-historic meaning of the women’s movement and head to Pottery Barn.” Ugh.