Does one have to be a card-carrying feminist?

Does one have to be a card-carrying feminist? As much as feminism has entered our woke consciousness, entered our lexicon, mainstreamed and appropriated by corporations and NGOs, and apparently we are all polite feminists, there is a need to question ourselves what type of feminism do we aspire to and, how important is to be a card carrying one, for ourselves and the institutions/projects/images we represent and/or work for. So, one of the actors of the 'apparently feminist' Pakistani TV series Churails is going round saying she is not a feminist (thankfully the other main actor, the one who is in a horrible Urdu-English Nestle ad telling her kids in broken Urdu-English about how many tests cow milk goes through, has reaffirmed that of course she is a feminist even before she knew it) . This must be the irony of ironies because a whole brigade of feminist hearts has been shattered. I myself , a keen movie goer can tell how good something is from the trailer never bothered with it because honestly it looks stupid, was saved from this heartache but for sure, it is a shame that one of the main actors , who herself benefitted from shoving her rights to freedom and respect hardly a year ago when Pure Islamic Pakistan renounced her for sharing a simple kiss in front of Roman fountains with her husband and every card-carrying feminist jumped in her defence. This same privileged woman can't understand the basic principle that when you call for your own freedom, respect and dignity , you need to stand for others' too. The same thing happened with another shitty Pakistani film 'Cake' which everyone lauded as a brilliant take on family dynamics and angst of women but was literally the antics of a highly privileged feudal family and was painfully tone deaf. The actors openly proclaimed on TV they are not feminists because they don't like burning bras. Our mainstream actors are clearly intellectually and artistically barren. Their art and antics don't represent any real artistic endeavour. Good art itself will speak on everyone's behalf, will reveal truth about reality, will ask questions, without thumping its chest. But to round this off, does art have to proclaim its politics? No, good art will do itself. That is art. Do actors have to proclaim they are card - carrying feminists or socialists? No, but they should have enough sense to research something before talking about it because gullible youngsters hang on to their words and image. An actor should have enough sense of decency and self respect not to slam an ideology, a politics that stands for rights of women. If you don't subscribe to it, don't speak about it. Rest of us, yes, it is important to say what you stand for, proud and clear. Because there are very few on our side.