Feminism can be draining, brutal, and excessive but it’s nothing new. It is current, imperative, and pressing. A religion for today's culture; it embodies societies growth as one, not two, human bodies.

Whether arguing male vulnerability or female empowerment advocates of feminism such as Emma Watson, Gloria Steinem, and Demi Lovato among others have been focusing a lot of time and energy on the issue bringing it to light. It has joined forces with the United Nations under Watson’s HeForShe campaign, worked with Michelle Obama in developing girls' education and walked the red carpet with Demi Lovato while shaming body dissatisfaction. But where is all of it going?

On Wednesday February 25, Emma Watson met with Gloria Steinem in London to discuss broad ideas of feminism, activism and her role as Herminie in light of Steinem’s novel My Life on the Road – also the first book in Watson’s feminist book club.

During the interview many questions came up about what feminism actually portrays and the pressures of body image in public. Watson brought attention to body dissatisfaction exemplifying her eyebrows and role as Hermione as insecurities. “I was disturbed by how long a conversation I could have with any woman about what she didn’t like about herself,” says Watson saying that there literally are, “101.3 men to every 100 women on the planet.”

Today, women do not even fulfill half of the population. “From this perspective, the greatest security deilemma is systemic insecurity of women. We are literally affecting the population of the world.”

But beyond the more obvious, worn out statistics on the lack of female security Watson and Steniem also discussed the difference between “pornography” and “erotica” in regards to empowering women instead of objectifying them. Watson even promoted a particular website OMGYES.com saying, “it’s a pretty cool website…I wish it had been around longer.”

In discussing erotica and pornography Watson emphasizes that, “We should at least have a word for sex that is mutual and pleasurable and not about domination, pain, violence, humiliation, and so on.”

After attracting male vulnerability in her latest HeForShe Speech for the United Nations, Watson has now introduced the pressure of sexuality for women and Steinem completely agrees.

“We are both worried about the envelopment of the earth in pornographic images. Young people especially…I was hoping that having a word for erotica, for shared mutual pleasurable empathic sex, real pleasurable sex would help us do something about pornography,” explained Steinem.

Beyond abortion, violence and vulnerability, Steinem and Watson think that it is possible: uncovering sexuality through alternatives and building a medium ground. Though Watson’s image of the innocent Herminie burns in our minds as she speaks on such issues there is a positive correlation in its relationship towards feminism.

While a feminist, to many, is perceived as a raging teenage girl running around with no bra, there is much more toward the issue that covers such a wide range of concerns.

Although I wouldn’t bluntly label myself (or anybody in that case) as a feminist – to an extent gender equality should speak for itself. Take the basic concern of employment and children. Steinem claims, “women with children are way less likely to get employed while men wiht children are way more likely to be employed,” but why would that be the case? Well, in such situations men, “are seen as responsible and women are perceived as distracted,” adds Steinem.

So in that case, have you ever seen a male cry? Or seen a women work while carrying a family?

Yes, feminism is draining. We’ve all heard it over and over again. But where is all the attention turned?

After a long, intriguing interview between Watson and Steinem the media was only attracted to one feature and it wasn’t Watson’s confession to using sexually pleasing subscriptions. The biggest attraction of the entire night was the life changing ombre hair Watson had and bushy eyebrows she talked about.

Because, forget the pressures of sexuality how about those died tips!

While she brought up her eyebrows in terms of body dissatisfaction Watson also acclaimed her acceptance in realizing that she was indeed an image of her character Hermione.

Together, with Steinem, feminism was discussed aside from its strict definition. As Steinem says, “It’s not the word that matters, it’s the meaning.” And that is was the night consisted of – talk about feminism without the pressing image of what feminism entails.

As seen and heard from many, many advocates of feminism: it is violence, security, sexuality, abortion, vulnerability, etc. It is the act of finding a medium between genders and blurring the line. There is no end because it entails daily livelihood. But as Steinem says, “Never, never, never give up. And remember to dance a little.”