“You aggressive, jhola-carrying, bespectacled, cigarette-smoking, pseudo intellectual, possibly seditious, LSR-JNU student, you. Shut up about your ‘harmful’ stereotypes because no one cares.”

Recently, a viral meme on Facebook elicited at least one of the following reactions from a sizeable section of my social circles:

– “OMG he nailed it bro! These Indian Feminazi bitches need to shut the fuck up about their first world problems.”

– “Soo true. I hate when some women are like ‘oh my god we need equality at the workplace.’ Talk about real issuez, like… umm… Jasleen Kaur is a bitch.”

– “Oh these femeenist types yaar. So annoying. Gold diggers.”

– Uhh.. wtf?

Ok, so the last reaction was just us, but here’s the post for context:

Yeah. That.

Of course, being the buzzword that feminism has come to be in recent times, there is, understandably, a lot of confusion around what actually constitutes feminism. Or, rather, what it means to identify as a feminist. 

Since people love being wooed with facts, figures, and dictionary-validated definitions, so here’s what Dictionary.com states:

An advocate of social, political, economic, and legal rights of women to be equal to those of men. 

Basically, anyone who believes in the equality of the genders IS a feminist. You’re not a ‘humanist,’ or an egalitarian, or an ‘equalist,’ or an “equaliser.” Yes, we’ve heard that too. *SMH*

As such, no issue that stems from oppressive patriarchal structures and, thus, rampant sexism across class, caste, creed, and race is EVER a non issue. 

But really, all of that aside, for those of you who just want to get straight to how the brilliant Tanmay Bhat nails every anti-feminist argument on the internet ever AND throws shade at despicable memes (such as the one posted above), we’ll let the wise gentleman take it away:

You go, Tanmay!