The Modern Face of Feminism

As a 24 year old man working on a dissertation looking into the institutions and structures that formed the environment capable of sending Barack 'the feminist' Obama to the White House and having just heard this piece on Radio 4 this morning, I can say that the state of sexual equality never ceases to worry me.
Katharine Whitehorn always raises such well thought out, well reasoned points of view that this piece brings little surprise in that department, but it is amazing to me that someone that got so high in one of the most misogynistic industries is willing to merely report its current status. Regrettably, media being my industry of choice (this time at least), I feel a great responsibility to bring equality to an otherwise sexually biased world. The big problem for any male feminists out there is that anyone seeing this (and the election of the 'first feminist') as a call to arms have to be aware of what post-modernism has done to the feminist movement.
It's true that some ‘modern’ feminists such as Rebekah Wade see female public nudity and celebrity bad behaviour as “the pinnacle of achievement”, but doesn’t it ring hollow with anyone that this comes from people who have sacrificed little in their lives and have only made it to their glass ceilings at the say so of their pay masters.
‘Glass Ceiling’ is a term that always makes me think. Surely to many of these so-called ‘modern’ feminists that glass would have to be one way. Any woman that gets to the ‘top’ of their game are unable to see that as long as you have a superior, how are you at the top of their game? Being unable to see the glass ceiling that is so obvious to so many (whether they mention it to their prisoners or not) makes their ensnarement in this trap all the more shameful.
Mrs. Whitehorn’s assertion that girls believe that behaving as badly as boys ‘empowers’ them is a truism in all regards, but doesn’t explain how and why this is the case. Of course, like everything, the state of young feminism has come about through the complexity of modern life and our inability to change the collective mentality at opportune moments in history.
The wonder of Radio 4 reared its head again this morning during the following programme: Broadcasting House. Towards the end, during the general interest section, Paddy O’Connell met with Vince Cable in his role as President of the Twikenham Bee Keepers Association. In closing, Paddy mused that the bee colony has been admired and studied for hundreds, if not thousands of years and that at the head of every colony is a matriarch that has absolute power and the men are only good for reproduction and work. The connection between the two programmes; doesn’t it make anyone think that there is more to life than sex and work?
ORIGINAL STORY: WOMEN ON TOP