Gloria Steinem and Kony 2012

So much, so much, so much is wrong with the world.
BUT, I will mostly say that one of them is not people trying to help those in other parts of the world. Loads of issue has been heaped upon the Kony 2012 viral sensation and the fact that only a few days ago the leader was "detained" (the polite way of saying arrested and then brought to a hospital) in California. If anything, it is just a huge example of how, in this culture, we pay far too much attention to the drama and upheaval of a situation other than the fact that warlords still exist in the world.
By the way, if you didn't know about it, the International Criminal Court (The Hague) the same place that has Joseph Kony on top of their list (according to the viral video) convicted on the 16th of this month Congolese Warlord Thomas Lubanga for recruiting and training children for combat, a situation very similar to Kony's.
Kony will be found. Of that, I do have faith in the Hague's power. And our military influence is wasteful and out of line.

That being said ON TO OTHER BUSINESS...

           The New York Times yesterday put two articles forward about Gloria Steinem (If you don't know who she is, use wikipedia for the love of God!). One of which was about how there has been no successor to Steinem to step up in this fourth-wave of feminism. I believe that's true. In this world of blogging where there are a million voices, everyone wanting to be heard, no one is heard clearly. Not many people could become as much of a visionary or a leader as Steinem.
           However, The New York Times on the same day posted an article about Shelby Knox, a young feminist leader from Texas, the subject of a documentary The Education of Shelby Knox. The article spoke about how Shelby actually crashed at Steinem's place in New York for a while as she tried to make her way as a feminist.

           Knox shrugged off any idea that she is the next Steinem, and I have to agree with her only on the basis that the climate isn't what it was during the 70's. We won't have one or two solid leaders in the coming years, we will have many, and they will each be different and some may fail, but I do not believe feminism is dead, it is just taking a different path.