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Waxman Staff Writer May 29, 2015 10:15 PM UTC A parody produced by the clean water charity [WaterAid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOMPS2zkE1M) imagines how men would deal with menstruation. The hypothetical hilarity? These men take to their periods like professional athletes getting amped about a big game. By reimagining menstruation as a masculine trait, the clip forces everyone—men and women—to consider the necessity and impact of health. This spoof is part of the charity’s “If Men Had Periods” campaign, which aims to increase awareness about women who don’t have access to toilets during their cycle. ### Here's What 20 Famous Women Think About Feminism  "People have sorely messed up the definition of feminism. It isn’t saying this is wrong and this is right," said Chrissy Teigen during a Variety event in 2014, adding that husband John Legend also identifies: "He’s a bigger feminist than I am! He actually teaches me a lot about the way women should be perceived." D Dipasupil—Getty Images for Extra  The Twilight actress reacted to women rejecting feminism during a Daily Beast interview in October: "That’s such a strange thing to say, isn’t it? Like, what do you mean? Do you not believe in equality for men and women? I think it’s a response to overly-aggressive types." Loic Venance—AFP/Getty Images  "I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me," said Emma Watson at a UN Women speech in September. "Men-- I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender Equality is your issue, too." Anthony Harvey—Getty Images  “I would say on some levels I am \[a feminist\]. Angela Davis is one of my heroes,” Halle Berry told Ebony in April. “And Gloria Steinem—these are people who, as I was growing, I was moved by and impacted by and thought very deeply about.” Joe Scarnici—Getty Images  "I don’t think of myself as being a feminist,” Sinead O'Connor told The Guardian in July. “I wouldn’t label myself anything, certainly not something with an ‘ism’ or an ‘ist’ at the end of it. I’m not interested in anything that is in any way excluding of men.” Jason Kempin—Getty Images  "I wouldn’t say \[I'm a\] feminist, that’s too strong. I think when people hear feminist it’s just like, ‘Get out of my way I don’t need anyone,’” Kelly Clarkson told TIME last year. “I love that I’m being taken care of, and I have a man that’s an actual leader. I’m not a feminist in that sense … but I’ve worked really hard since I was 19." Christopher Polk—Getty Images  Leighton Meester told OOTD magazine in February about her biggest role model. "American writer Betty Friedan — she fought for gender equality and wrote the great book The Feminine Mystique which sparked the beginning of a second-wave feminism,” Meester said. “I believe in equal rights for men and women.” D Dipasupil—FilmMagic  “I don’t know why people are so reluctant to say they’re feminists," Ellen Page told The Guardian in 2013\. "Maybe some women just don’t care. But how could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?” Dave Kotinsky—Getty Images  "For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept,” Lana Del Rey told Fader magazine in their summer 2014 issue. “I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities." (Tabatha Fireman—Redferns/Getty Images)  “I would \[call myself a feminist\], yes.” Rashida Jones said in 2013\. “I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.” Christopher Polk—NBC/Getty Images  “Am I a feminist? F–k yeah, I’m a feminist,” Jenny Slate told MTV News in June. “I think that unfortunately people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it’s about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that’s really wrong and really dangerous.” Jason Kempin—Getty Images  "A feminist? Um, yeah, actually,” Katy Perry told an Australian radio host in March. “I used to not really understand what that word meant, and now that I do, it just means that I love myself as a female and I also love men.” Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images  Amy Poehler says she's confused by how many women deny that they're feminists, “but then they go on to explain what they support and live by — it’s feminism exactly,” she told Elle magazine in January. "That’s like someone being like, ‘I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.’” Jason Kempin—NBC/Getty Images  "We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet," Beyonce wrote in an essay titled "Gender Equality is a Myth" in January. She also famously included an excerpt from Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx talk in her song, "Flawless." Myrna Suarez—WireImage  “I feel like I’m one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women to not be scared of anything,” Miley Cyrus told the BBC last November. Julio Cesar Aguilar—AFP/Getty Images  "I wish when I was 12-years-old I had been able to watch a video of my favorite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism."Taylor Swift said in reaction to Emma Watson's speech at the UN in September. "Because I would have understood it. And then earlier on in my life I would have proudly claimed I was a feminist because I would have understood what the word means." Isaac Brekken—Getty Images  “Women saying ‘I’m not a feminist’ is my greatest pet peeve,” Lena Dunham told Metro in 2013\. “Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you’re a feminist.” Michael Buckner—Getty Images  "No, because I love men," was Shailene Woodley's response when TIME asked her whether she considered herself a feminist in May. "I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the men away from the power’ is never going to work out because you need balance…My biggest thing is really sisterhood more than feminism.” Dave J Hogan—Getty Images  “I’m getting the sense that you’re a little bit of a feminist, like I am, which is good,” Lady Gaga told the LA Times in 2009\. “I find that men get away with saying a lot in this business, and that women get away with saying very little . . . In my opinion, women need and want someone to look up to that they feel have the full sense of who they are, and says, ‘I’m great.’ “ Kevin Mazur—WireImage  “\[Feminism\] means being proud of being a woman, and \[having\] love, respect and admiration and the belief in our strong capacities,” Salma Hayek told Stylist in 2012\. “I don’t think we are the same, women and men. We’re different. But I don’t think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world – ask any single woman! So it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.” Traverso—L'Oreal/Getty Images  Children yell to players after a game between the New York Mets and Houston Astros at Citi Field on September 28, 2014 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. Alex Goodlett—Getty Images ## Transcript Hi I'm Belinda Laskin. I'm an editor at large at Time magazine and I have to admit this week that the person I'm interviewing, and this happens in many reporters careers, has actually had a material affect on my life, and in fact on many working women's lives. But despite that I'm going to try not to go too easy on her. Welcome Gloria Steinum. So, you have participated for May a documentary of your life. Why a documentary about your life, now? Are you dying? No, they might think so, though, but, am planning to stay here till a 100, at least. [ LAUGH ] What would you say to people who feel, today, that the fight for women's rights is all over, but shouting. I guess I would send them out for an eye exam, a hearing exam. [ LAUGH ] In other words, they're wrong. But I, but, [ LAUGH ] but I've, I realized that that idea is, is out there because it's a way of stopping, progress. So we hear, words like post- racist, post- feminist. When people I think would not say post democracy, I think people would concede at a minimum that we haven't reached democracy yet and we certainly haven't reached equality of women of all races or racial equality. In one of your earliest journalistic coos' you went undercover at the Playboy Barney Club to show. What a dreary and dead- end and horrible job it was. In the documentary, you express some regret about that. Would you like to explain why? Well, at the time, it was a gigantic career error, [ LAUGH ] because I had just narrowly begun to get serious writing assignments. And after I did that. Suddenly, I could, I, I literally lost an assignment, to write about the US information agency. But once feminism began to dawn on me, I realized, wait a minute, you know, I had more in common with the women who were working there than I did with the editors who sent me there. I'm Australian, and my country's most famous feminist let me continue in Germaine Greer, is like you, very good looking, and I wonder how much you think that helps, when you are standing up for women's rights. First of all, I have to tell you honestly. You don't think Germaine Greer is good looking. No, no, no, wait a minute [ LAUGH ], that I was, then when I became identified as a feminist, I was already close to 40. So it was clear to me that before and after I was a feminist I had a completely different measure of how [ LAUGH ] I looked. Before I was sort of, a pretty girl you know, attractive, afterwards I was beautiful suddenly and so it was more a comment on what people thought feminists looked like. Than it was, on how, I actually looked. The hard part for me is that sometimes those have been used to say that well she didn't work. She just got this because she looks good. But given that, beauty has a strange persuasive power. And that people advertise success is beauty when Jocks proposed with a product to sell something. Has it ever occured to your something trojahn horsey about it. Well, I would love to be a trojahn horse for revolution, hmm good idea. Hahaha [ LAUGH ]. No fine, i just feel that we just feel free to look however we want to look. We ought to be free to wear whatever we want and, and, be safe in the street. But if, if my being a pretty girl, listen, I'm 77 now I thought this would be over by now but anyways [ LAUGH ] [ LAUGH ] You know, was helpful, fine. You know, then it disproved a myth. So this is you. No botox nothing. I hear botox hurts. I though about getting a tattoo [ LAUGH ] A tattoo would be on the neck No I was going to get a tramp stamp on my 70th birthday. Oh, a tram stamp. [ LAUGH ] What is your view of the Dominique Strauss- Kahn situation? I'm very grateful to the NYPD that plucked him off the plane. [ LAUGH ] I'm very grateful to the maid who, you know, knew she had rights, and brought an accusation. It's a great step forward and one can see it's impact say, in France, you know, on the woman who also suffered an attempted rape by him and is now bringing a, a lawsuit. How do you feel about the direction feminism has taken with pessimism and third wave feminism. Are you encouraged by what you see? Yes. No, I'm very encouraged because I see the, the humor and the hopefulness and the, they just have much better detectors that we did. [ LAUGH ] They just don't take the same I am out of bias and it is great to see. 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