2/23/2018 0 Comments Emma“IF YOU STAND FOR EQUALITY, THEN YOU’RE A FEMINIST. SORRY TO TELL YOU.” It looks like our Beauty won’t halt on tackling society’s Beast: inequality. And there is no wonder why. It’s no wonder actress and activist Emma Watson is a role model for many young women today. There’s no doubt that she’s the Belle in the celebrity ball, and her intelligence and intellect evidently hold no boundaries, from her straight A grades at GCSE to her bachelors degree in English Literature - and, by god, does she have stamina... From the moment she mastered her first spell fixing Potter’s glasses as gregarious Granger to the moment she baffled the ballroom as bookish Belle, she’s had no trouble battling society’s expectations on the role of a female. Until now. Until the moment a critic dared to question her feminist ideals after a flaunty image of the actress is shown in Vanity Fair magazine. But does that stop our Emma? Absolutely not. “I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it.” Watson states during her BBC interview with Beauty and the Beast co-actor Dan Stevens, “Feminism… it’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality.” Emma is no ordinary female. She is a Watson Woman. And a Watson Woman believes no woman is ordinary. She makes intelligence more sexier than before, diligence endearing and independence thriving. She has no shame nor regret “I’m so thrilled about how interesting and beautiful the photographs were.” (she states, despite the blow to her beliefs and values by mischiefs of the media, she admires the work behind her latest shoot, whether breasts are in sight or breastsare in mind), she thrives on individuality “I truly truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within”, AND she waits for no-one. “If not me, who? If not now, when?” I really could not have said it better myself, Emma. In July 2014, Watson was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in honour of her passion for women’s rights and then her involvement in educational opportunities for females around the world after visiting countries such as Zambia and Bangladesh. Her motives, however, were clearly outlined in her ‘HeForShe’ speech to the UN headquarters in the Big Apple New York the following September, where she stated that “fighting for women’s rights has become too synonymous with man-hating” and she shows full confidence in her opinion that “this has to stop!" Watson speaks out to many individuals within society, and subconsciously heals the split between certain feminist ideologies—which is known the be between the pro-feminists and the anti-feminists, also known as those who type-cast feminists to the extremists who seek male redemption and women superiority. The Harry Potter actress… oh wait , Watson (sorry, Emma...) backhands this type-casting—almost to the point we forget that women were ever at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Because she enforces a new wave of feminism: one that appreciates how far women have come, one that embraces equality for both genders, and ultimately, one that changes the image of a feminist from being a repressed angry spinster with her top-button done up to, well, anyone that makes up our community. The sure-footed and sexy, the intellect, the illiterate, the power-hungry and the preacher, man or woman, witch or wizard—everyone and anyone can be involved in this wave of feminism. Like the new generations’ Carol Anne Duffy, Emma Watson is ‘the World’s Wife’ and she’s giving women a voice and questioning all obedience, sexual repression and dependency that historical gender ideologies had foreground for the female population. And women are becoming more confident in themselves and are beginning to embrace womanhood and all the natural amenities that come beside it—maternity, strength and passion combined. So, Emma, we support you and we have no doubt in your feminist motives, and no critic nor photo could ever change that—breasts or no breasts!
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