Can we PLEASE take a moment to appreciate Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Daniel Radcliffe. This week both actors gave me another reason to love them – they are a male feminist!

JGL gave an interview to Daily Beast and defined himself as a feminist and how he believes that women should be treated equally to men. Swoon. 

I read that you consider yourself a “male feminist,” and you credit your parents who are educators and really taught you about the history of feminism. But nowadays, you have a lot of young stars coming out against being labeled a feminist.

Coming out against the label? Wow. I guess I’m not aware of that. What that means to me is that you don’t let your gender define who you are—you can be who you want to be, whether you’re a man, a woman, a boy, a girl, whatever. However you want to define yourself, you can do that and should be able to do that, and no category ever really describes a person because every person is unique. That, to me, is what “feminism” means. So yes, I’d absolutely call myself a feminist. And if you look at history, women are an oppressed category of people. There’s a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that’s been very detrimental to the human race as a whole. I’m a believer that if everyone has a fair chance to be what they want to be and do what they want to do, it’s better for everyone. It benefits society as a whole.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/14/joseph-gordon-levitt-on-sin-city-and-why-he-considers-himself-a-male-feminist.html

Daniel Radcliffe in his interview with The Stylist talked about gender equality in movies and how most female characters are written by men. 

"Well, on more than one film I’ve persuaded people to build up the female roles"

"There are certainly more female writers now than there were but the fact remains, most female parts are written by men. At least there are so many more female directors, producers and directors of photography [DOP] now"

“Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.” 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/daniel-radcliffe-i-think-im-a-feminist-9667106.html 

For some reason the 'F' word offends many people, especially males. So it's amazing to see two top actors supporting women's rights, so openly and proudly. By speaking out on feminism, these two are helping to make a huge impact on gender equality. So thank you guys!!