By KATE LEAVER
It’s finally fucking fashionable to be a feminist.
The biggest pop stars in the world, the coolest TV actors and yes, even supermodels, are letting their feminist flag fly.
Need convincing?
Example 1: Taylor Swift.
Swift only just came out as a feminist. The 24-year-old singer (who, if you need qualification of her influence, has roughly 60 million social media followers, sold a billion copies of her last album and is worth a cool $180 million) once famously said that she didn’t know what a feminist was. In 2012, she answered the question “Do you consider yourself a feminist?” by saying that she “didn’t really think of things as girls versus guys”.
Like so many of her young fans, she had a naive ignorance of what feminism meant and thought of it as a dirty word.
BUT THEN Swift befriended Girls writer and vocal feminist Lena Dunham, and changed her mind.
Taylor Swift is now a feminist — and one who lends her substantial influence to the cause. After 24-year-old British actress Emma Watson spoke so beautifully at the United Nations last week on the topic of gender equality, Swift said this in an interview with Tout Le Monde:
Top Comments
We totally agree, while these incredibly
empowering individuals have mobilised new and existing individuals, as part of
the movement action must be taken as well as the celebration that is apparent.
While many women see ‘feminism’ as irrelevant because of the ‘privileges’ we
have gained it is important to look at the staggering facts that you have
pointed out in the article: the gender gap is widening, there are still
discrepancies of women in power in comparison to their male counterparts,
sexism and sexual assault still exists on so many levels and as the Plan
International statistics point out young women are not following their dreams.
As much as we too long singing Beyoncé’s lyrics, your points are effectively
valid- we must fight against gendered issues in our own backyards as well as
for women and men internationally to bring equality. Solutions must be found,
political intervention or programs perhaps could help but mainstream media also
needs to stop pinning women up against each other, stop measuring how feminist
people are and bring equality rather than sexism to start conversation and
spark more action. Both Taylor and Beyoncé are role models to us who through
self-expressive and liberal identities have made feminism the new black- people
may disagree but we think sexual liberation and allowing women to make rational
choices is important but it is also important that the smaller voices and
theories get heard, the people taking action everyday to fight so that other
people are also further inspired to join the movement like we have been in our
campaign. (http://runthewordcampaign.w...
I imagine people who pretend for a living, will do whatever's necessary to bolster a public image.