Posted on 09/24/2014 4:16:02 PM PDT by Viennacon
The threat to release nude photos of actress Emma Watson was an attempt to start a viral marketing campaign to shutter the site 4chan. After her impassioned speech for gender equality last weekend at the United Nations, Watson faced backlash, including a threat to leak alleged nude photos of the star. Business Insider reported that an anonymous 4chan user had posted a countdown timer with a picture of the "Harry Potter" actress wiping away a tear hinting that she could become the next star to have her iCloud hacked and personal photos dispersed for the world to see. Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian and Gabrielle Union are among the celebrities recently to have private, intimate photos splashed across the Internet. The 4chan site is where the hacked, nude photos of these other female stars initially appeared. On Wednesday, the site mentioned in the anonymous user's posting, EmmaYouAreNext.com, was redirecting to the company Rantic Marketing with the message #ShutDown4chan.
"Join us as we shutdown 4chan and prevent more private pictures from being leaked," a message on the site says. "None of these women deserve this and together we can make a change." There is also a letter to President Barack Obama that reads, "We have been hired by celebrity publicists to bring this disgusting issue to attention. The recent 4chan celebrity nude leaks in the past 2 months have been an invasion of privacy and is also clear indication that the internet NEEDS to be censored. Every Facebook like, share & Twitter mention will count as a social signature -- and will be one step closer to shutting down www.4chan.org. "
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Well put.
Actually, I agreed with much of her speech. You might remember that many members of the UN are Muslim, and they DO need to hear that women are not objects for men to abuse and control.
“I was appointed six months ago and the more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.
For the record, feminism by definition is: “The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.”...
...Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.
Why is the word such an uncomfortable one?
I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.
No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
These rights I consider to be human rights but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn’t assume I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day...Because not all women have been afforded the same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been...
...Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother’s...
...If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.
Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong… It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals...
...I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too—reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves.
You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It’s a good question and trust me, I have been asking myself the same thing. I don’t know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
And having seen what I’ve seen—and given the chance—I feel it is my duty to say something. English Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men and women to do nothing.”...”
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/9/emma-watson-gender-equality-is-your-issue-too
I certainly would not agree with all she said, but given she is English and went to liberal colleges, I think her message was far less anti-men than I would have expected of someone with her background.
I also like that she DID mention her privileged background.
I think the names you called her were a knee-jerk reaction, not justified by her comments. You are wrong. Emma Watson isn’t totally correct, but neither was she entirely wrong. Her thoughts were not “bile-spewing”.
As for gender equality in the US, the way the media adores the sluts and women-abusing rappers is proof our society DOES have a lot of women haters around. The President’s acceptance of the highly sexualized and abusive lyrics of rappers are proof OBAMA needs to learn respect for women. REAL respect, not the fake pretense he puts out.
Interestingly, they're grabbing any popular forum or site they can and making sure that they can control the message. This may mean anything from gaining the ability to disappear any criticism to setting up unrelated places for Journolist-style synchronization of stories.
* - Gamergate is considered a controversy where some feminists were caught trying to influence reviews with various forums. So far, they're not really succeeding outside of identifying who is influenced by them and giving legitimacy to claims that just won't disappear.
Terminal cuteness, but a bit scrawny for my tastes...
Could this be the last dying gasp of the feminazis?
“I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body”
Sorry, I view murdering babies as vile, and those who defend it are indeed spewing bile. The UN has enough babykillers present.
National geographic already released the pictures.
I can’t take sob stories of a woman complaining about women being treated as sex objects when she has a career based on the fact she is pretty.
She may or may not have been talking about abortion. I don’t know. Given the world-wide audience, decisions about your own body could include not dressing in a burka. It could include access to health care without a male relative watching - something I encountered in Afghanistan, where a woman could be killed by her family if she had been seen in a hospital without a male relative standing by and giving his permission for her flesh to be seen. It could include not being beaten up by your rapper boyfriend, even if the President of the USA likes him.
I’m sure I disagree with Watson on a number of issues. She was brought up in England and went to liberal colleges. But overall, her message was not vile. It merits discussion, not name calling and spewing venom like some liberal hag on MSNBC.
If you don’t know what western women mean when they say “decisions about my body”, then you have not ever encountered the frothing pro-abortion left.
If Watson had said “its time for marriage equality!” she could have meant anything from perhaps equal hearing at a divorce court in India to legitimizing polygamy in the few countries in Africa where it still remains illegal.
But because Emma Watson is a western champagne feminist, brought up as you say in an extremely liberal country, in an extremely liberal college, I think it is fair to say we know what she means. If she said ‘marriage equality’, that’s code for same sex marriage. If she said ‘choice about my body’, thats code for murdering unborn children. I cannot think of any notable examples from memory where I have heard that phrase used for anything but abortion.
Flick over to MSLSD for just a couple of seconds, and you might hear this phrase uttered. It is very common.... from liberal hags... like this failed actress. Watson takes the Swedish view. Women are oppressed by men and have been for centuries. In order to prevent this, men must be ‘changed’. We need to ‘educate’ them to behave in the Emma Watson-approved manner.
Pajama boy is what Watson & co have been fighting for. A woman this filthy rich has no business telling us how discriminated her group is. Like Wesley Snipes complaining about just how raycis America is.
Frankly, sick of celebrities being given political appointments, sick of the hypocrisy, and sick of these women’s-rights activist who denounce female genital mutilation as evil all the while defending their right to cut their own child’s throat before its born.
Maybe I am allowing myself to be influenced by the fact that she is a very pretty and somewhat personable young woman. I share your concern about the ritual chant of the right to control her own body. Other than that truly major concern, she has always struck me as a rather wholesome young lady. Maybe you are right. If she is pro-abortion that is, for now, the determining factor as to how I would view her. If it happens that she is not a pro-abort, she deserves a second look.
She practically apologizes for being a public spokeswoman. She may have earned a right to humility but I think she is credible in that respect.
I don't see a lot of movies now that my kids have gone on to college and beyond. In those movies in which she appears, does she manage to keep her clothes on and dress modestly unlike the young fellow who played Harry Potter? She certainly does not seem to be aspiring to be a Miley Cyrus or a Lady Gaga or anything named Kardashian. In today's world of celebrities, that is something.
I hope that you are wrong about her and that Mr. Rogers and I are right. I believe that this is the first time I have disagreed with anything you have posted and, if it turns out that you are right on this, I will certainly concede as much. Would we not rather that she would be pro-life but somewhat clumsy in her choice of words to express herself? Alternatively, if she is a pro-abort and became a pro-lifer, she would not be the first or the last. If Norma McCorvey and Sarah Scorvino could change their minds and get arrested (along with the daughters born in spite of their lawsuits) in Operation Rescue, then Emma Watson might well change her mind if that is what God would want her to do or she might grow up (assuming she IS a pro-abort).
I shall be praying for her. How about you?
She admitted she has led a privileged life - in part because she was raised in a place like England. I don’t hear stuff like that from celebrities very often. She says society undervalues fathers, which is true of western society at least.
I am sure Emma Watson is both pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage, both of which I abhor...but she also comes across as someone a person could talk to. That would make her very different from the average film industry liberal.
And part of her speech WAS correct. Real respect for women is something MEN need to teach. We need to teach our daughters they are valued, so our daughters won’t seek love from some teen boy who only wants to get into her panties. We need to teach women and society that the rappers and the Miley Cyrus types who think women are only valuable as sex objects are evil. We need to teach real respect for women...because if real men don’t do it, then society will teach them a false respect, one grounded in their being used by men for sex and promoting an abortion culture.
I pray for the lost of this world every day, rest assured. I suspect all Freepers do, as they watch our civilization disintegrate. I wish I could indulge in this gray area where we don’t know what she believes, but it seems to be confirmed at this source.
http://www.worldmag.com/2014/09/emma_watson_men_and_modern_feminism
- PolitiChicks writer Julie Klose agrees with nearly all the beliefs that Watson espouses, with the exception of one: abortion.
“As long as feminism embraces abortion as a right, I will not define myself with that word, despite the many aspects of it that I agree with,” Klose wrote. “I am called to contribute to the equality of all mankind as how God planned it. Any campaign that supports the denial of rights to a future generation through abortion is truly not an advocate of all human rights.” -
Denounce evil in the world, and pray for its defeat. Abortion is not a women’s rights issue. Its a murder issue. Sorry to say that years of fighting these murderers has rendered me somewhat cold to them. Liberalism up close takes its toll.
I’m still wondering how much Kardashian paid to have her iCloud nude photos included.
Your last paragraph is on target. As a pro bono attorney, I represented 1100 pro-lifers arrested (mostly for felonies) invading abortion mills and shutting them down while desterilizing the instruments and pouring raw eggs into the suction machines (effectively closing the mill so invaded for up to two weeks). Trust me that I despise abortion and unrepentant abortionists.
May God bless you and yours!
I think the implication is that Klose may have had contact with Watson and this group.
Her speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-iFl4qhBsE
I know, I know. It is just a fantasy. OTOH, she graduated Brown with a BA in English Literature and has a very respectable acting resume to her name at an early age. Her credits do not suggest that she would touch Katherine Hepburn's evils and heresies with someone else's ten foot pole. She apparently will be both an actress and a producer in her next film at the mere age of 24. She also attended Oxford for some time. She seems like a young lady of accomplishment. Imagine any Kardashian studying English Literature at an Ivy or Oxford or both.
If she were your daughter or granddaughter and were willing to accept your moral wisdom and guidance, would you not be proud of her?
It wasn’t Kardashian who paid but her or their silicon provider.
Hard to imagine this scenario. I would NEVER let my children, son or daughter, go into the film-making business. Its a rape-fest, and not just with the sick directors looking to give young stars a leg up with certain ‘conditions’.
Has she achieved a lot? yes. So has Obama. If I had a son who would listen to my wisdom and guidance and went on to become president, yeah that would be great. same principle applies.
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