This is not what feminism should look like!

I consider myself a sort of feminist. I'm the kind of feminist hanging my head in embarrassment over what feminism looks like right now. Feminism looks like Emma Watson, a 24 year old actress and clothing model,  posing in Elle to celebrate her UN appointment to promote feminism. Feminism looks like skinny blond women taking their tops off to expose their breasts while wearing wreaths of flowers and make-up. Feminism looks like upper class cis-gendered straight white women living in palaces talking about how difficult it is to balance ordering around their servants, and time with their doting husbands. Feminism looks like an endless discussion of the potential rape of one single college student at UVA, when rape has been used as a war crime on a mass scale for the last 5000 years. In short feminism looks like a bunch of narcissistic navel gazing of approximately two to three percent of earth's population; not a fight for the rights of the 51% of us that are female. 

A lot of the #Himforher campaign is the kind of sad drivel that has many women of very different perspectives all pretty uncomfortable. There is no reason on earth men shouldn't be overjoyed about this kind of feminism. They are really the only people who have been liberated by it. They can now enjoy less pressure to support families financially, a lot more available sex with fewer requirements, and; perhaps most importantly, a sense of moral superiority for being "feminists" due to looking at Emma Watson modeling clothing smaller than my underwear even when she is not in fact modelling underwear on that particular day.

See this image?

That's UK politician Nick Clegg who admitted to sleeping with "no more than 30" women in an interview with the press. To his credit he didn't then beat his chest and declare it a victory for England over France, and the entire middle east. Also to his credit, he's exactly correct. This is what a feminist looks like, and that's a big part of the problem.

Feminism actually could be about making the world a better place for everyone: men, women, children, elderly, Latino, Native American, Asian, straight, gay, trans, differently-abled and so on and on. In the end we are all in this together; except me...I'm planning on moving to Mars. Beam me up Scottie?