Plates. Form vs Function.

The first wave of feminist revolution happened in the UK and US in the 19th and early 20th century. It focused on contractual and property rights for women, then the right to vote, (suffrage). The second wave was in the 60s and 70s and according to feminists, was to end discrimination and to highlight inequalities in politics. They should have figured that stuff out with the first lot of suffrage, so basically the second wave was o hippies could grow hairy legs and armpits. Ferals. Third-wave feminism began in the early 1990s, arising as a response to perceived failures of the second wave and also as a response to the backlash against initiatives and movements created by the second wave. Third-wave feminism seeks to challenge or avoid what it deems the second wave's essentialist definitions of femininity, which (according to them) over-emphasize the experiences of upper middle-class white women.

So after all this rot, what happens?

Some inventors stop "inventing". They ignore the Aussie phrase of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", and start redesigning things for women, emphasising form over function. Admittedly, our world is now much prettier thanks to pubic free or pubic minimalist women, and good home decoratives, (I mean actual decorations, not the women themselves *ahem* the mrs doesn't read this so I coulda got away with that one too).

Now I have no idea what plates looked like before the feminist revolutions, but now most of them are circle. Except one in my cupboard. It's square.

On the dishrack, it stands up without ever rolling to one side. In the cupboard, it sits in the corner with no gaps, no wasted space. The same on the table, and it also has more surface area, allowing me to fit more on my plate to stuff my face with. Definitely a funcional winner in all aspects except possibly the aesthetic art of meal presentation, but arguably that's only because we're used to seeing things on round plates.

So, plates are an everyday, commonly used item, yet for some reason, in the western world, the form over function concept wins. Historically, women are in the kitchen more than men. So did circle plates come about after the first wave of feminism failed to get women out of the kitchen, or, with form over function being a club for women (and gay men and metrosexuals),

Do circle plates actually signify the early stages of the feminist revolution?

I reckon they do coz square plates are better in every way they just look a bit funny.