Teh One Who Knocks
02-16-2017, 12:45 PM
By Anna Rhodes - Heat Street
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Emma Watson has revealed that she moped for an entire day and “struggled to get out of bed” after people critiqued her feminism.
Following her UN campaign #HeForShe, which urged men to back feminism, she was labelled a “First World Feminist” and attacked for her “white privilege”.
Watson said she found it difficult to accept the tide of criticism which is part and parcel of the in-fighting which plagues the social justice movement.
In an interview with the UK edition of Elle magazine, she said: “It’s difficult to hear criticism from people you consider your peers and who you believe are on the same side”.
“There is a level of criticism that comes with being an actress…but once you take a stance on something like feminism, that’s a completely different ball game.”
“There were a couple of days when I just didn’t want to come out from under the duvet.
“At first I wasn’t sure if I should allow myself to be upset by it, but then I realised I needed to give myself 24 hours to sulk, and then move forward.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Emma Watson Is ELLE's March Cover Star And 'Woman Of The Year' At ELLE Style Awards 2017 <a href="https://t.co/Q5h3ptOwDO">https://t.co/Q5h3ptOwDO</a> <a href="https://t.co/dmPpVwBwCv">pic.twitter.com/dmPpVwBwCv</a></p>— ELLEUK (@ELLEUK) <a href="https://twitter.com/ELLEUK/status/829865729512108032">February 10, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Watson also took on other hot social justice topics, including the contentious gender pay gap, claiming that “no one is being paid equally”.
She said: “Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally”.
The actress – who gave the interview as part of a press campaign for the upcoming Beauty and the Beast film – said that she wants to study feminism more before commenting further.
“I need to see and do a bit more first. It’s not like I have been reading this material for years and I don’t have an encyclopaedic knowledge,” she said.
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Emma Watson has revealed that she moped for an entire day and “struggled to get out of bed” after people critiqued her feminism.
Following her UN campaign #HeForShe, which urged men to back feminism, she was labelled a “First World Feminist” and attacked for her “white privilege”.
Watson said she found it difficult to accept the tide of criticism which is part and parcel of the in-fighting which plagues the social justice movement.
In an interview with the UK edition of Elle magazine, she said: “It’s difficult to hear criticism from people you consider your peers and who you believe are on the same side”.
“There is a level of criticism that comes with being an actress…but once you take a stance on something like feminism, that’s a completely different ball game.”
“There were a couple of days when I just didn’t want to come out from under the duvet.
“At first I wasn’t sure if I should allow myself to be upset by it, but then I realised I needed to give myself 24 hours to sulk, and then move forward.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Emma Watson Is ELLE's March Cover Star And 'Woman Of The Year' At ELLE Style Awards 2017 <a href="https://t.co/Q5h3ptOwDO">https://t.co/Q5h3ptOwDO</a> <a href="https://t.co/dmPpVwBwCv">pic.twitter.com/dmPpVwBwCv</a></p>— ELLEUK (@ELLEUK) <a href="https://twitter.com/ELLEUK/status/829865729512108032">February 10, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Watson also took on other hot social justice topics, including the contentious gender pay gap, claiming that “no one is being paid equally”.
She said: “Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally”.
The actress – who gave the interview as part of a press campaign for the upcoming Beauty and the Beast film – said that she wants to study feminism more before commenting further.
“I need to see and do a bit more first. It’s not like I have been reading this material for years and I don’t have an encyclopaedic knowledge,” she said.