

And just because my dreams are different from yours, it doesn’t mean they’re unimportant.’” But Meg says, ‘You know, I love him and I’m really happy and this is what I want. To Jo, being married is really some sort of prison sentence.

Her choice is that she wants to be a full-time mother and wife. “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.

“It’s so bizarre and otherworldly, what happened to me,” she says in that instantly recognisable preppy English accent, alluding, not for the first time in our near-two-hour interview, to the trappings of growing up and existing in the public eye. She was nine years old when she was picked out of a line-up of would-be actors in her school gym to be in a film that would change her life forever. The story of how Watson became one of the most recognisable women on the planet is folklore of sorts. I suppose she’s been watched almost her entire life. We ask for the room to be cleared so we can talk freely, but there are still a dozen or more assistants, stylists and crew hidden behind a wall of light, filming us on camera, still and silent, like the antique bronze cupids posing on the mantelpiece. Ten minutes ago she greeted me with a sisterly hug, and since then I’ve not been able to shake the feeling that we’re at school and about to do the Christmas show together. Immigration Spurs Guatemalan Presidential Candidates to Campaign in U.S.Emma Watson and I are sitting knee to knee on the plushest sofa in the Royal Suite at The Savoy.Trump: Christie and Sununu Have 'ZERO Chance!' in 2024 Republican Primary.CNN CEO Apologized for Breaking Staff’s Trust Following Atlantic Profile.LGBTQI+ Fans Cheer as Ban on Tennessee Drag Shows Axed.Donald Trump’s Republican Opposition Worries About Crowded Primary Field.She was strongly criticised on social media last week for “exploiting” the death of fellow Harry Potter actor Alan Rickman to push her feminist agenda.Įntertainment London / Europe Cologne Emma Watson Europe Migrant Crisis feminism Migrants Refugees Welcome United Nations Watson is currently in Davos, Switzerland, alongside the world’s liberal elite at the World Economic Forum annual conference to promote her new “He For She” UN-backed campaign for gender equality. The feminist reaction to this grotesque display of male violence was largely to defend misogynistic migrant cultures and deflect the blame onto a non-existent western “rape culture”. The issue of Europe’s recent migrant influx and the safety of women was brought sharply into focus following the mass sex attacks on German women by migrants and refugees on News Years’ Eve. In this context, the petition can be interpreted as an expression of frustration with the contradictions of modern liberal feminism, rather than merely a personal attack on Ms. Her simultaneous embrace of female equality, mass migration and the misogynistic non-western cultures brought with it, is widely seen as typical of left wing activists today. In recent years, however, she has become better know as an outspoken proponent of third wave feminism and as a “Goodwill Women’s Ambassador” for the United Nations (UN).Įver since she was invited to give a widely praised speech at the UN on the topic, she has become a poster girl of modern feminism. The wealthy, Cambridge-educated 24-year-old British actress from Oxfordshire rose to fame with her role in the Harry Potter films.
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It reads: “In order to show how safe current migration is to Europe, particularly regarding the cause of feminism… Emma Watson should spend a week’s holiday in a Calais migrant camp, without guards of course, to show how safe, and how pro feminism these migrants are.” Watson spend a “holiday” in the so-called Jungle camp in Calais without her bodyguards. A provocative online petition is calling on Emma Watson - the Harry Potter star know for her feminism and pro mass migration liberal activism - to spend a week in a camp with migrants to show they are good for her feminist cause.Īt the time of writing the petition is approaching 9,000 signatures, and demands Ms.
