20 Fem-Tastic Men Advocating For Women's Rights

Feminism: the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

1. The Dalai Lama

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"I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?"

2. Patrick Stewart

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"The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact men. It is in our hands to stop violence towards women."

3. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“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.”

4. Mark Ruffalo

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“… I actually trust the women I know. I trust them with their choices, I trust them with their bodies and I trust them with their children. I trust that they are decent enough and wise enough and worthy enough to carry the right of Abortion and not be forced to criminally exercise that Right at the risk of death or jail time.”

5. President Barack Obama

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“A woman deserves equal pay for equal work. She deserves to have a baby without sacrificing her job. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship- and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a “Mad Men” episode.”

6. Eddie Vedder

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“I’m usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women’s bodies are really beginning to piss me off.”

7. Ryan Gosling

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“It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self.”

8. Daniel Craig

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Check out this video of Daniel Craig dressed in drag to highlight the inequalities that women continue to face.

9. Jimmy Carter

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“Yes, of course I consider myself a feminist. If a feminist is someone who believes that women should not be persecuted and women should have equal rights, then all men ought to be feminists.”

10. John Legend

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“All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s right, the world will be a better place… We are better off when women are empowered- it leads to a better society.”

11. Matt Damon

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“It’s an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They’re the ones who will get it done.”

12. Nelson Mandela

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"Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression."

13. David Schwimmer

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“I thought I could maybe give voice and give presence and get guys to see that it is their issue and it is their responsibility. I realized that these are our girlfriends, our wives, our daughters, our sisters, so it’s as much a man’s issue as it is a women’s issue.”

14. Jackson Katz

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“A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women’s lives than they do about their company’s bottom line.”

15. William Hague

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"This must be the century in which women take their rightful place, in which hundreds of years of marginalization are forcefully and finally overturned and extinguished, in which girls are born not into a world of narrow hopes and lesser protections, but into a world of equal treatment and boundless opportunity."

16. Joss Whedon

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“Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.”

17. Harry Belafonte

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“Let us use this century to be the century when we said we started the mission to end the violence and oppression of women. Let us never, ever let our children become the abusers to our women that we permitted in our lifetime.”

18. Daniel Radcliffe

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

19. Ian Somerhalder

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“Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.”

20. Ezra Miller

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“One in three women in the world will experience domestic violence or rape within the course of their lifetime. To me, I grew up in a household of women and I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.”