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05th Mar 2017

“I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it” – Emma Watson speaks on feminism

"It's very confusing."

Carl Kinsella

Emma Watson has lashed out at those who questioned her feminism simply because she chose to take part in a scantily clad photoshoot.

Speaking to the BBC about her Vanity Fair cover shoot, Watson explained what feminism means to her.

“Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick to beat other women with. It’s about freedom, it’s about liberation. It’s about equality. I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it, it’s very confusing.”

Watson was criticised by some for the Vanity Fair cover, though it seems to us as though a woman doing whatever she wants with her body is pretty much the core idea of feminism.

But what do we know?

However, some have pointed out that there’s a level of hypocrisy to Watson’s words. In 2014, the Beauty and the Beast actress had a similar critique of Beyoncé.

“As I was watching [Beyoncé’s visual album] I felt very conflicted, I felt her message felt very conflicted in the sense that on the one hand she is putting herself in a category of a feminist, but then the camera, it felt very male, such a male voyeuristic experience of her.”

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