Joseph Gordon-Levitt is no stranger to most people's lists of smile-worthy things, especially recently. In the last few years, it has become popular within pop-culture politics to ask celebrities (especially young, female celebrities) whether they consider themselves to be feminist. Just Google "young celebrities denounce feminism" and you get a pretty sad list of articles. It seems to be that a lot of the aversion to the term and the title has to do with this idea that being a Feminist makes you scary, angry, bitter, and anti-men. In almost all cases, that couldn't be farther from the truth.
Last week, we had Emma Watson's beautiful remarks about this specific phenomena and the danger posed to us all by the ubiquity of this common misconception. Today, I would like to share with you a video that JGL made for his production company, hitRECord, that seeks to create dialogue through fun, collaborative projects.
His most recent endeavor is the video below, in which he explains what feminism means to him, as a man and as a human being, and asks others to do the same. The goal is that he will put together a collaborative episode of his web show that accounts for multiple viewpoints and voices.
We'll keep you posted!
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