The Different Levels of Fake Depth

I need to vent. I am sick and tired of this quasi-feminist, fake anti-racist crap that keeps being thrown around everywhere. I recently watched "Fake Deep" by Cecile Emeke and let me tell you, it put my feelings into words! The poem describes how a lot of men, specifically black men, will continually praise women for all the wrong reason, while still holding racist and anti-feminist ideals. The video is great, but I think the fake deep mentality goes beyond any racial or gender barrier. 

There are four types of feminist: feminist, anti-feminists, quasi-feminist and non-intersectional feminist; the same can be said for men. 

• Feminist: Someone who believes in the equality for women, whether that be professionally, socially, morally or economically. This person has read up on feminist literature and speeches. This person understands how just about everything in society is geared towards men and doesn't resent men because of it, but aims to change our patriarchal society to benefit everyone within it, no matter race, gender or sexuality.

• Examples: Beyonce, Lupita Nyong'o

• Anti-Feminist: Someone who totally rejects feminism entirely because their boyfriend doesn't hit them, they like catcalling, they've never been raped or some other stupid myopic reason that makes no sense. Most of these types of people have done negative research on feminism and are going entirely off of their own bogus ideas and stereotypes perpetuated by other anti-fems or male rights' activists. 

• Examples: Shaileen Woodly, Kelly Clarkson, everyone in the "#ImNotAFeminist hashtag

• Quasi-Feminist: A person who preaches a Hemingway quote or something and pretends it's feminist rhetoric to seem smart, urban, and educated. A quasi-feminist will try to reject any type of progress made in the West because "Muslim women have it way worse!" because most Islamic nations, to their knowledge (there is very little knowledge), have never had a female Prime Minister or President, even though in reality, many of them have. They will also point out very basic ideas such as "let women be equal" and at the same time say that using male based pronouns ("freshman", "you guys", "every man") to address women is not fundamentally wrong because in actuality quasi-feminist are just along for the ride; they want to look cute and get a bunch of retweets from other quasi-feminists and move on to stopping Kony again.

• Examples: Meghan Trainor

• "But Maame why? 'All About That Bass' is my feminist anthem!" Believe me when I say I used to really like that song, but when you actually listen to the lyrics Trainor's message is everything but feminist. For example, her song reads "don't worry about your size...'Boys like a little more booty to hold at night'".  She's saying that being larger is perfectly fine, not because you truly believe that you're beautiful, or because you're comfortable in your own skin: but because some rando boy you don't know wants to hold onto your butt as you sleep. 
• Non-Intersectional Feminists: This is someone who chooses to uplift their own race, gender, socioeconomic class, ability level or other descriptors while leaving all women outside of their demographic to continue suffering. Non-intersectional feminist will make jokes about transgender people and tell someone with cystic fibrosis to give their handicap permit back because they "don't look sick". This type of feminist will praise Miley Cyrus for owning her sexuality while she appropriates African American culture, but condemn Nicki Minaj for doing a similar thing without her appropriating culture. They can also be referred to as Feminist Lite (as coined by Annie Lennox) 
• Examples: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Annie Lennox
• "But Maame Seneca Falls Convention was the greatest thing to ever happen in feminist history!" Sadly, this isn't true. Here's the part about the convention our schools failed to teach us: the convention was essentially a bunch of white women being very upset as to why immigrant and black men could vote and they couldn't, paying little to no attention to the rights of immigrant and black women.
• Here's an actual quote from Stanton (taken from her biography): “Asked straight out whether she were ‘willing to have the colored man enfranchised before the woman,’ she answered ‘no; I would not trust him with all my rights; degraded, oppressed himself, he would be more despotic with the governing power than even our Saxon rulers are.’ “ (Hill and Yang in '09). 
• I saved the best for last...MEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS: This is almost always a man who believes that men have it really tough in a male dominated world created to serve them. He believes that things like hiring women to work on oil rigs will slow down production and that it's just not fair that a man can't hit his female significant other. He probably also thinks that woman are very weak even though Venus and Serena Williams, Mo'ne Davis, and I don't know, the entire US women's soccer team exist.
• Good ways to spot him: "Shut up and go make a sandwich" t-shirt; Facebook picture of him at Hooters; Refers to feminist as lesbians probably
• Example: Sam Pepper
• I really don't think I need to explain this but Sam Pepper is a popular Youtuber who made a video where he grabbed women's butts as a "prank". Nearly everyone who saw it thought it wasn't very funny and the video caused major backlash. Sam then came out with 2 more videos: one where he had women grab men's butts and one where he let us all know that this was a social experiment to raise awareness of male sexual abuse. 
•  Male sexual harassment and abuse is real, but female sexual harassment and abuse is far worse. According to the US Department of Justice in 2003, 9 out of 10 rape victims is a woman; there is no impending doom for men to be raped.

I know too many people who fall into every category that isn't actual feminism and it upsets me. It makes me sick! It's almost like a fad, a trend that will come and go and once it's gone you can add it to the list of counterculture things you took part in. Literature, films, articles: read up on anything you can about feminism before you make any decisions on what and how feminism works. 

I've officially come clean as a feminist. Am I a lesbian witch who doesn't shave her armpits or leg hair and purposefully grows out a unibrow? Or am I your everyday suburban teen, with somewhat prickly legs and a strong belief in the idea that all people are created equal no matter their race, gender, or other descriptors? It doesn't matter which one I am, you still have to respect me as a person and you don't get to decide for me: it's not up for you, it's my choice. Feminism doesn't come with a cookie cutter, we aren't all the same; every single one of us has our own events and reasons why we've all come to the same conclusion.