This is poetry.

Emma Watson is a great example. She's touted as being erudite and intellectual. Supposedly a thinking woman. But she never moves beyond empty, crowd-pleasing platitudes in anything she does ("Trans people are who they say they are" and "I'm here for all the witches"). She clearly did not spend even 10 seconds researching Mermaids and Susie Green before promoting that horror show. She did not stop and ask herself why all of these gay people and feminists are so concerned about Mermaids. Or why is JK Rowling willing to stake her entire reputation and public goodwill on these issues? The only time she "challenges" anything is when she's acting with the momentum of the crowd. Which is no challenge at all. When has she ever provided any valuable insight into any of the issues that she has made a career out of being an activist for? She's practically too bland and substance-less to even passionately critique, which is the main reason I think she has evaded serious critique.

It's also hard to take her seriously as a feminist and activist when she's gained her fame entirely from a career that she is still so shockingly bad at despite having had every advantage and resource at her disposal to develop as an actress. Then you realize for nearly the entirety of her adulthood her real career has been in doling out crowd-pleasing platitudes while looking pretty. She doesn't benefit from doing research and encouraging open discourse and nuanced thinking because she becomes entirely irrelevant in a social climate that promotes that.