Emma Watson, supposed feminist. FFS

"I've got no problem with trans rights being human rights. Women's rights are human rights too. "

I do. Human rights are human rights. Blacks fought the civil rights movement. LGB the equal rights movement. Women have women's rights. Trans are the first to shout "trans rights are human rights". It fits right into their hyperbole and tactic of painting themselves as ultra victimized. It says "anyone who opposes what we say doesn't believe we are humans".

No group of people should have their demands elevated to status of "human right". Human rights apply to all humans equally. There can't be a subset of 'human rights' reserved solely for a specific group of people.

I could add Emma Watson to my told you so list along with Corbyn and WEP.

I never understood why she was held in such high regard on MN. For someone who managed to get into Oxford and an Ivy League college she always struck me as vacuous.

Yes I saw that and was very disappointed. My dd idolises her. I did tweet her to suggest she reads more widely...

Shredded Banksy I don't think you're understanding posters criticism. It's not criticism of the t shirt sentiment, it's the link to Mermaids that's the issue.

@ShreddedBanksy - I am sure Emma will be fine. No need to stress about her and her millions and her privilege (youth, beauty, wealth). The rest of us however, are up shit creek thanks to her political stunt. None of this will affect her or her children.

They do say its the Harry Potter generation that believe in magic - and that humans can change sex.

This is making me really upset. I can't believe how many women are throwing us under the bus like this.

There is absolutely nothing logical about transgenderism. I NEVER believed someone could change sex. This is just so disappointing. Shame on Emma.

Yep. Emma Watson has clearly posted this tweet in a vacuum and therefore should only be commented on as a person saying an uncontroversial thing about human rights.

Except that the issue has been mobilised to attack women's rights quite openly, and as a despicable foisting of medicalised abuse on children, which Emma could have discovered if she had done even twenty minutes surfing on her phone.

So, I'll retain my personal opinion as a woman that she has made a naive and self serving call by posting this tweet, whether or not Emma or anyone else approves of it. I haven't tried to 'silence' her - she has a fecking enormous following and one thread of cross women criticizing her tone deaf choice on MN is not silencing anyone else either.

So not into this ironic scolding women for disagreeing with another woman.

Oh no... I was an admirer of EW.

T shirt fine - just concerned about who she has referenced in her tweet.

SHE DID NOT HAVE TO PROMOTE THEM to maintain her "value".... she is a very intelligent woman and I believe she thinks she knows what she is doing and it makes me very sad

I can't see anyone on this thread trying to silence Emma Watson. Goodness what a thing to say.

Lots of people are saying in fact that they agree or have no problem with the t-shirt but tagging such a terrible charity is an act which shows she has a poor grasp of this very important debate.

I don't think this thread is unreasonable.

aspie

I was thinking about brass eye the other week. I’m not sure you could even make that nowadays. Of course, that means the need for it is even stronger.

What is chris Morris up to these days?

Meh

She has never been mauled groped and had voyuers pray on her. Shame on her lack of empathy for women and girls

Hang on a minute: while I don’t agree with what she’s done here, don’t forget she had the tabloids running articles and posting photos of her and trying to get upskirt photos when she turned 18 because she was now “legal”.

Good on her! Go Emma go!

You have just reminded me of Brass Eye’s Nonce Sense campaign. Priceless!

Its not the tshirt it's who she @-ed in the post.

I can't see anything wrong the t-shirt 

I support the rights of trans people, as do most people here I think?

If Watson is looking for a cause to champion maybe she can campaign against ‘cake’, the bisturbile cranabolic amphetamoid that is destroying kids lives:

Sometimes I wonder if the whole TRA thing is a Brass Eye sketch Chris Morris forgot to stop shooting.

Celebrities will repeat any old bollocks if they aren’t prepared to look into what they are campaigning about.

So much for #HeForShe.

Waves wand:

’Penis evanesco!’

I was wary of kids company too.

I knew people associated with it and even through they were very committed, it just sounded flake to me - all very good intentions but not well executed. Like spoiling a crying child with presents when this won't really help them in the long run. People were very evangelical about the charity though.

I was talking to DH about Mermaids last night and he was asking how we had ended up in this situation and I said I thought it was kids company all over again, interesting to see others have this idea as well.

I hope she has a dim assistant who is driving her twitter account. What does she know about the real world? Being very rich and famous certainly protects you from day to day crap.

Very disappointing.

She will be very embarrassed by the Mermaids connections eventually