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[–]mangosplums 73 insightful - 3 fun73 insightful - 2 fun74 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Emma Watson really annoys me with this. She’s just jumping on a bandwagon, she clearly knows nothing about the topic. It’s annoying to see people like her being all preachy, condescending and self-righteous. I’ve always found her feminism to be bland and have no intellectualism to it. Like Beauty and Beast is a pretty awful movie in terms of its message to women. It’s very anti-feminist. And yet she still did it.

[–]vitunrotta 44 insightful - 13 fun44 insightful - 12 fun45 insightful - 13 fun -  (4 children)

I’ve always found her feminism to be bland and have no intellectualism to it

Just like her acting then, huh? (Sorry, that was a bit mean perhaps... but doesn't make it untrue.)
(ツ)_/¯

I really can't believe she and Daniel TRAdcliffe (amongst many...) turned out to be such nonintellectuals. Zero original thought, just repeating TWAW! TWAW! like dyslexic crows and never bothering to consider what it actually means in real life for real women. Blergh.

These are the moments I wish I could "cancel" all of these muppets - but as I am vehemently against the idiotic cancel culture as well, I shall just keep prodding my DIY voodoo dolls of them, and hope that I don't accidentally give them an acupuncture session instead.

Edit: Tried to make my "shrugging emoji" work... Couldn't manage so I just made it do a sassy one-hand movement.

[–]Realwoman 31 insightful - 1 fun31 insightful - 0 fun32 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I mean, they got famous as actors, it's too much for us to expect that actors are intellectual. Actors know how to act, that's a separate skill from being capable of critical thinking and complex analysis. Writing, on the other hand, requires a lot of deep thought, also, it's pretty obvious from the Harry Potter books that JKR is very well read and erudite.

[–]mangosplums 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

True, but Emma Watson sells the idea that she herself is very smart like Hermione and brands herself as a feminist and activist, so it's different than just any actor.

[–]Realwoman 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

She's still an actress though, she's just famous for having played a nerdy, smart character. She's not Hermione.

[–]fuckingsealions 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe we should tell her we are house elves. /s