Meryl Streep and the F-Word: Why Did the Greatest Feminist Actress Deny Being a Feminist?
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While promoting the movie Suffragette, Streep was asked if she is a feminist. ‘I am a humanist,’ she replied, further fueling the misguided belief that ‘feminist’ is a dirty word.
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In an interview with Porter magazine, Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard criticized feminism, saying, “We need to fight for women’s rights but I don’t want to separate women from men… Sometimes in the word feminism there’s too much separation.”
