To be disappointed that feminist Emma Watson has posed topless

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To promote her new film. Can't these A listers just wear a classy outfit?

Watson has said repeatedly that she is 'challenging gender stereotypes from the ground up'. What is more stereotypical than a starlet flashing the flesh to promote a film?

Couldn't care less about a woman posing topless, her choice. But when she lectures people about 'gender stereotypes' but is happy to conform to them herself when someone offers her cash then I'm not going to take her seriously.

Hey yorick it's not just men....women can also appreciate bare breasts, don't be sexist!

Well that's my point! I'm banging my head against the wall here with the countless posters insisting it's all for men when it's apparently been done for sodding Vanity Fair!

Do you people think a horny basement dweller with his hands down his pants logging on to Babestation and porn hubs is going to be wanking off to a highly stylised picture that shows a bit of between and underboss, no nipple and nothing below the waist? Seriously?

Women enjoy their own bodies. Women enjoy other women's bodies, in an admiring and non-sexual way. Women enjoy fashion, art and stylised aesthetics. If you think they don't, and it's all only about men, you're the anti feminist, not Emma Watson.

The worst thing about these people is they're making me defend this woman and she actually annoys the ever living fuck out of me.

Did you take her seriously before this bill?

It's a "get your tits out for the boys" shot. Disappointed but not surprised. She's an actress. Nudity or flesh showing only seems to be "art" when it's women getting their kit off.
No-one was pretending the topless Poldark Aiden shots were "art". It was using sexuality to flog a series to women.

A role model for what?

She's 26, she didn't ask to be a young girls role model, putting that on her is unfair. Yes, she was a central character in a series for all ages, but she is an adult, she's moved to playing adult roles, and shes not actually topless. It has nothing to do with feminism, she chose to do the shoot, she's happy with how she looks in it. She's an adult, give her a break.

Stormwhale. No underboob in B&TB, but this photo gets the idea out there that's she's sexy.

Just like seeing Colin Firth in his wet clothes makes people find him attractive in other films or seeing Poldark topless makes him carry on being desirable when dressed later on.

Watson has said repeatedly that she is 'challenging gender stereotypes from the ground up'

^ Hilarious, empty-headed claptrap you'd expect from these privileged self-sanctifying eejits.

It's a "get your tits out for the boys" shot.

THEN WHY IS THERE NO NIPPLE AND WHY IS IT IN VANITY SODDING FAIR????

So it can be seen as 'classy' art instead...

Its the self-sanctifying I can't stand.

Being an actor is a fairly decorative role (for both sexes) .

I don't agree that every choice made by a woman is a feminist/empowering choice. But this choice is made in a framework where appearance sells (for both sexes) and by an actor who was extremely famous round the world in a child role, and now needs to transition to adult ones.

I agree with absolutely everything that PoorYorick has posted and I hate Emma Watson

Too many 'Pearl Clutchers' comments. It's now so tired and meaningless, and generally used 'at' anyone who disagrees with someone else.

When it comes to a subject that matters - like people's perception of feminism and so on - it's such a lazy, dismissive comment.

Any aecerbic 'humour' it might once have had is long, long gone. Just trying to not at all wittily put someone down is a fairly lame form of debate.

I think the point is not what she's wearing or that she's being photographed like that or what publication it's in - its why she's doing it that is the problem. It's to sell a film.

It's not porn. It's not glamour.
It's high end fashion which often includes nudity.

Thank god, as a 'strong, educated woman' I get paid for having a good brain rather than having to get my tits out.

Odd that some people think showing your breasts makes you a 'fantastic role model to young girls' unless they have very low expectations of young girls.

I think that is the most untopless topless picture I have ever seen. Still, it does show part of her breasts which might be appreciated by some men who look at it, and we can't have that.

I think it's nice to see some actual real boobs for a change.

I imagine if this was Jodie Marsh or Katie Price or a similar Z-lister, the comments would be very different.

Vestal Posing 'topless' can hardly be compared to prostitution though, can it?! And if feminism doesn't involve choice, then it's hardly empowering women. You say women aren't allowed to choose to do as men want them to, but isn't that forcing them to remain in the roles that society dictated? By insinuating that everything they choose to do is solely for the pleasure of men? Encouraging them to avoid doing things that men would be allowed to do? Men are allowed to pose topless. Men are allowed to do things in order to please women. Women behaving in a way that they want to is not 'choosey choice feminism', it's fucking equality.

Nobody has said that posing in a fashion shoot makes her a role model for young girls. Some of us have said that if you consider someone to be a good role model already for other reasons then we wouldn't change our mind about that just because she's showing a bit of flesh in a magazine (not a lads mag).

I would have been disappointed if she was actually topless.

A bit of cleavage? That doesn't disappoint me.