What is feminist?
After contemplating this question for a while I have come up with the following: I have sort of divided the concept of feminist into two categorys. They are "feminist" and "real" feminist. A "feminist" is just someone that advocates for the equality of women and does things to uplift the representation of women in any form of media but they do not identify as a feminist. People that fit this description are people like Queen Latifah in the lyrics that she writes, or Tyra Banks on her television show, or Maya Angelou in the movie "Madea's Family Reunion", or myself. "Real" feminists are people like bell hooks and Laura Mulvey, and Iris Marion Young, etc who do all the things that "feminists" like the above do but they have also created theories and concepts and have written scholarly books and articles and critiques of the things they have seen in film and actually identify themselves as feminists. Hopefully I have made a clear distinction between the two. I consider media feminist when it specializes in the lives of women and advocate for their equality and also reveals the inequalities between men and women. I do believe that one can declare a movie feminist even though the maker him/herself does not identify or call themselves a feminist. Some films that I think are feminist are movies like "Waiting to Exhale", "What's Love Got To Do With It," "Senorita Extraviada", "Their Eyes Were Watching God," "for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf", and "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman".