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.