Being "empowered" by Emma Watson

[DialSquare]

This has been mentioned in AIBU on an older thread about Emma Watson's Feminism but I thought it would be worth posting here too. There's some good responses.

mobile.twitter.com/TheWomensOrg/status/1292370163531120642

Has she not noticed that hardly anyone wears high heels now? Something that's happened organically over the last few years. Just like we stopped wearing corsets and girdles. No body needed the permission of feminists, we just want to be comfortable.

That... sounds like something young feminist me would have said 20 years ago, when the world was a different place.

I'm pleased the first comment i read was GC, and there are very few who are with her.

I wonder if the women's organisation who posted that tweet know what a woman is

If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can.

No you can’t. As many here have pointed out, factual error caused by ignorantly cutting and pasting from a US document.

Emma, please don’t try to speak for women. You would be an embarrassment if anyone was listening

@twoHopes

I have a dream that women of this nation will one day rise up and wear flats one day and heels the next

😁

This tweet made me realise I have been massively overestimating her intelligence because she played Hermione!

But imagine Hermione Granger writing... that. The subconscious illusion has been completely exploded.

There's an Emma Watson thread on AIBU and @Mumoftwoyoungkids (who is not on this thread) gave for me the definitive reply to whether EW is a feminist:

"I don’t think it matters whether Emma Watson is a feminist or not - what matters is this:-

She has a friend, someone who has had a massive positive impact on her life and who has helped her, supported her and cared for her for decades. Her friend has never said anything negative about her public ally and huge amounts positive.

Three things are now clear:-

1. Her friend has a different opinion to her on a very political issue
2. Her friend has revealed that she has faced domestic abuse and sexual assault in her past.
3. Her friend has received a huge number of death, violence and rape threats.

EW (along with DR, ER and quite a few others) have chosen to comment publicly on (1) whilst ignoring (2) and (3).

Never mind feminist - this makes them really quite awful people. And we should remember this."

Says is all, methinks. It's the disloyalty of all of them that is most disturbing. They can't help their opinions on TWAW, it's the standard millennial thing. But the disloyalty.
If I was that disloyal to a friend, one who had helped me so very much, my conscience would be killing me.

That's what I can't get past Lamahaha.

The way they felt they had to get involved and in such a dismissal type of way. As if they are the authority on the matter. They're not fit to wipe JKR's boots.

Dismissal = dismissive

I'm glad I now know I don't have to run for prime minister

@twoHopes

I have a dream that women of this nation will one day rise up and wear flats one day and heels the next

But how will a delicate, glittery pink brain know if it's a heel or flat day?! Oh what a decision! Odfod EW and your simpery, male focused agenda! HeForShe? Ha! SheForWhoeverSheIsTold more likely!

@Lamahaha

There's an Emma Watson thread on AIBU and *@Mumoftwoyoungkids* (who is not on this thread) gave for me the definitive reply to whether EW is a feminist:

"I don’t think it matters whether Emma Watson is a feminist or not - what matters is this:-

She has a friend, someone who has had a massive positive impact on her life and who has helped her, supported her and cared for her for decades. Her friend has never said anything negative about her public ally and huge amounts positive.

Three things are now clear:-

1. Her friend has a different opinion to her on a very political issue
2. Her friend has revealed that she has faced domestic abuse and sexual assault in her past.
3. Her friend has received a huge number of death, violence and rape threats.

EW (along with DR, ER and quite a few others) have chosen to comment publicly on (1) whilst ignoring (2) and (3).

Never mind feminist - this makes them really quite awful people. And we should remember this."

Says is all, methinks. It's the disloyalty of all of them that is most disturbing. They can't help their opinions on TWAW, it's the standard millennial thing. But the disloyalty.
If I was that disloyal to a friend, one who had helped me so very much, my conscience would be killing me.

Excellent comment.