Emma Watson talks to Paris Lees about feminism

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'This Christmas, Watson is back on the big screen as Margaret “Meg” March in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.

The project couldn’t be a better fit for Emma, combining, as it does, many of her loves: literature, film and exploring the female experience. “With Meg’s character, her way of being a feminist is making the choice – because that’s really, for me anyway, what feminism is about,”

Interesting that "female choice" is what Emma deems feminism to be, as reported by Lees.

www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/emma-watson-on-fame-activism-little-women

Emma showing her brand of feminism here

metro.co.uk/2018/10/18/emma-watson-praised-for-being-lgbtq-ally-by-wearing-trans-rights-are-human-rights-t-shirt-8051491/

www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/emma-watson-on-fame-activism-little-women

metro.co.uk/2018/10/18/emma-watson-praised-for-being-lgbtq-ally-by-wearing-trans-rights-are-human-rights-t-shirt-8051491/

Emma Watson lost me when she posed topless for (I think) Vogue.

Not a big enough eye roll in the world.
Does anyone else find that certain films and TV programmes are now ruined for you once you knows the completely anti-women views of some actors?

She's rich enough to be able to pretend to fight for women's rights.

With Meg’s character, her way of being a feminist is making the choice – because that’s really, for me anyway, what feminism is about

Is this woman stupid? What choices does she think middle class white American women had in the 19th century. Wife and mother was their allotted role whether they liked it or not.

She seems to think Jo made a different "choice", so clearly Emma hasn't read the rest of the series because Jo married Mr Bhaer and became a wife and mother too. Louisa M. Alcott even called the second book in the series "Good Wives".

Maybe Emma needs to start thinking about how many women died in childbirth before high tech medicine and contraception came on the scene or how they spent their lives having massive families, not all of whom survived and how feminism relates to those facts. Idiot.

Wake me up when Emma Watson plays a grown-up in a film.

The thread title just makes me think 'Why? What's the point?'

It's like 'Jeremy Corbyn talks to Michael Gove about Haute Coture' or 'Kim Kardashian and Kanye West discuss the offside rule'

“I’m Very Happy Being Single. I Call It Being Self-Partnerer"

I am OK with it too but I call it being single ~ so why invent a silly new name for it if you are happy?

If you only define rad-fems as feminist, then this is the inevitable conclusion.
There are a few thousand rad-fems in the entire country - they represent no-one but themselves.

Wow. So many eye rolls here.

I wonder how many women who'd been jailed for a violent assault would be given a job interviewing celebrities about feminism. Maybe they'd be the wrong kind of women, the ones who are held to higher standards and have female biology.

Watson has a brand to promote and her shallow activism is part of that. She has never lived in the real world, having had a privileged upbringing and more money than most people could even dream of. It’s a shame that that isn’t enough for her, and that she has to continue to self-promote to add to her millions by trampling on the rights of women who are outwith her sphere of immense privilege. Greedy and ruthless is what I call that sort of behaviour. As for her vacuous pronouncements on feminism, well - what a waste of an ivy-league education. I’d have hoped that students studying literature would be capable of articulating something more profound than “feminism is about choice”.

Trans women have human rights, being human and all that. It's such a nonsense statement and makes me certain Emma hasn't spent long considering the debate in detail.

Lazy bollocks from Emma

Little Women shows women and girls as real people with a degree of agency within the confines of the time, but that’s about as far as it goes with regards to feminism

Let’s engage our critical thinking shall we Emma?

'Kim Kardashian and Kanye West discuss the offside rule'

In fairness that one has comedic potential.

Is this woman stupid?

Emma Watson? Yes. Vacuous is her middle name. She always has been vapid and vacuous. If I had to choose to spend time with either I'd choose Paris Lees.

Watson has a brand to promote and her shallow activism is part of that. She has never lived in the real world, having had a privileged upbringing and more money than most people could even dream of

Lees for all her faults had a much harder time than Watson. The assault was when she was much younger and wasn't it a punter? That doesn't excuse it but people do change and should be allowed second chances.

Speaking at the UN in 2014, she [Watson] said: ‘If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are — we can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about"

Pretty much a dictionary example of vacuous inanity.

'Kim Kardashian and Kanye West discuss the offside rule'
In fairness that one has comedic potential.

If she played in defence, with VAR Kim's arse would be playing everyone on-side.

Wake me up when she becomes a grown up

I would like to see Emma make her way here and read us. Alice should come too.

She's loving the idea of herself as an activist isn't she?! roll eyes

It's branding. Hermione was an activist for elves, now Emma is an activist for trans people.

Emma is no friend to women.

Around the GRA reform deadline she nailed her colours to the mast.

Emma is no friend to women

Agree.

And no one is "self partnered." That's contradictory. To be in a partnership there have to be two of you. There is only one Emma Watson.

I bet Hermione Granger would never say something so crass. If you've read JKR's latest Robert Galbraith book you can be pretty sure Hermione wouldn't say such a thing.

The question I always ponder with respect to activists is just what is their theory of change? Emma’s is apparently a theory that change happens when we all can choose our own labels.

I fail to see how choosing a personal label changes anything for a single mother working two jobs to pay rent and feed her children.

However, it might be possible that if we all labeled ourselves, correctly, as the 99%, change might follow. I don’t think it would be the sort of change Emma of the 1% would like.

Hence she, like so many others, wittingly or unwittingly, work to divide us along all sorts of different lines and into multitudes of categories: with how many, after all, will a Gen Z skoliosexual neuroatypical trans non-binary femme find unity?

Certainly not with 99% of the population.