<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/emma-watson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emma Watson</a> opened up about stepping back from acting and explained that when she was surrounded by all those famous people at the height of her career, she realized that no level of success would make her happy unless she was true to herself.
In an interview for <a href="https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/emma-watson-british-vogue-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British Vogue</a>, the 33-year-old actress said her new-found freedom would not have been possible if she&#8217;d stayed in front of the camera and on the big screen.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just so glad that I did,&#8221; Watson told the outlet of taking a break. &#8220;Because I have this feeling of having my own voice and creative space and sovereignty in some way that I don&#8217;t think I did before—more autonomy.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m so glad that I allowed things to be messy for a minute and to really allow myself to not know [what&#8217;s next], because the knowing that I&#8217;ve come to, I wouldn&#8217;t trade that for anything,&#8221; she added.
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Forever the month of fresh starts and new beginnings, the January 2024 issue of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BritishVogue?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BritishVogue</a> is focused on a re-energised commitment to mindful fashion. So who better to begin proceedings with than actor and activist <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EmmaWatson?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EmmaWatson</a>. Read about her personal and professional reset… <a href="https://t.co/T8rmdKTBYK">pic.twitter.com/T8rmdKTBYK</a>
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&#8220;I get a front row seat [with] some of the most successful, beautiful, incredible people in the world,&#8221; Emma said of being part of Hollywood. &#8220;And when you have that seat it becomes very, very clear that there is just absolutely no level of success that will make you in any way happy or content if you do not like who you are or enjoy what you&#8217;re doing when no one&#8217;s watching.&#8221;
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Watson &#8212; who became a world-wide celebrity after landing the role of Hermoine Granger in the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; franchise at 10-years-old &#8212; has mostly stepped away from acting following her appearance in the 2019 &#8220;Little Women&#8221; remake.
Earlier this year, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-wasnt-very-happy-harry-potter-darling-explains-long-absence-from-hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actress</a> said she left Hollywood because she &#8220;wasn&#8217;t very happy.&#8221;
&#8220;I think I felt a bit caged,&#8221; Watson said. &#8220;The thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn&#8217;t have very much control over. &#8230; It was very difficult to have to be the face and the spokesperson for things where I didn&#8217;t get to be involved in the process.&#8221;
&#8220;I was held accountable in a way that I began to find really frustrating, because I didn&#8217;t have a voice, I didn&#8217;t have a say,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And I started to realize that I only wanted to stand in front of things where if someone was going to give me flak about it, I could say, in a way that didn&#8217;t make me hate myself, &#8216;Yes, I screwed up, it was my decision, I should have done better.'&#8221;
She has since tried her hand at directing, <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1391468/why-emma-watson-is-glad-she-stepped-away-from-acting?cmpid=social_instagram_bio%2526source%253Dinstagram-enews%2526medium%253Dlink-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">E! News</a> noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-wasnt-very-happy-harry-potter-darling-explains-long-absence-from-hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;I Wasn&#8217;t Very Happy&#8217;: &#8216;Harry Potter&#8217; Darling Explains Long Absence From Hollywood</a>

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‘I’m Just So Glad’: Emma Watson Talks Stepping Back From Acting And Why She Did It

Emma Watson Talks Stepping Back From Acting And Why She Did It

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/emma-watson-doubles-down-on-self-partnered-label-so-happy-people-feel-empowered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emma Watson</a> definitely got everyone&#8217;s attention when she posted a photo of her wearing a gravity-defying dress that left fans questioning how it was staying up.
In the 33-year-old actress&#8217; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CtrNhd7tNtB/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=1092c7e8-5a73-4eaf-a67a-947187e59b21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram post</a>, the star was wearing a strapless pale blue dress that looked more like an upside down umbrella before it’s opened. Many of the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CtrNhd7tNtB/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> from fans had some fun connecting the &#8220;floating&#8221; dress to spells her character Hermione Granger in the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; franchise would use.
&#8220;This dress is defying physics,&#8221; one person wrote.
Another wrote, &#8220;the dress looks like it&#8217;s floating. I&#8217;m trying to understand.&#8221;
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While another wrote in the comments section, &#8220;What in the wingardium leviosa is that dress,&#8221; a reference to a spell in &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; to make objects levitate.
&#8220;I&#8217;m all for sustainable fashion but ma&#8217;am are you wearing an upside down umbrella?&#8221; one person wrote. While another joked, &#8220;This is the most hogwarty dress ever.&#8221;
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And others were just happy to see they weren&#8217;t the only ones confused about the structure of the dress, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/06/19/fans-confused-by-emma-watsons-gravity-defying-dress/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=pagesix&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a> noted.
&#8220;I&#8217;m so happy I&#8217;m not the only one who thought the dress is defying gravity,&#8221; one wrote.
Another wrote, &#8220;After reading through comments I feel less bad about how long I had to stare at her dress to figure out what was happening.&#8221;
Another shared a joke from the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; franchise, &#8220;This is what happens when you say LeviOsa instead of Leviosa.&#8221;
A third joked, &#8220;I think someone forgot to take the hangers out of her dress before she put it on,” and &#8220;Emma be lookin like a closed umbrella.&#8221;
However, others seemed less amused and took the time out to describe how the dress worked.
&#8220;The dress has pieces in it that make it stand up,&#8221; one wrote. &#8220;If you zoom in on the image you can see that it&#8217;s just the way the dress was fashioned.&#8221;
Another added, &#8220;People, come on! The dress is not &#8216;hanging from her ears&#8217; or &#8216;Photoshopped,&#8217; the dress is designed to have &#8216;bones,&#8217; it&#8217;s just couture. Never seen the Met Gala and its over the top gowns?&#8221;

‘Most Hogwarty Dress Ever’: Emma Watson’s Gravity Defying Dress Splits Fans

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Actress Emma Watson shot to international stardom when she took on the role of brilliant young witch Hermione Granger in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alan-rickmans-diary-dishes-all-the-dirt-on-his-harry-potter-costars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harry Potter</a>&#8221; — but she only just revealed why, after earning critical acclaim for later roles, she essentially vanished from Hollywood.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-brat-emma-watson-slammed-for-apparent-swipe-at-j-k-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watson</a>, who was just ten years old when she first donned her Hogwarts robes for &#8220;Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone,&#8221; hasn&#8217;t appeared on screen since &#8220;Little Women&#8221; — which wrapped in 2018 and was released in 2019. She explained the reason she had stepped away from acting during an <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/045a2d24-f207-4cc3-9a55-5d61a9633bf0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the Financial Times that was published Friday: she just wasn&#8217;t enjoying it.
&#8220;I wasn’t very happy, if I’m being honest. I think I felt a bit caged,&#8221; Watson said. &#8220;The thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn’t have very much control over. To stand in front of a film and have every journalist be able to say, ‘How does this align with your viewpoint?’”
&#8220;It was very difficult to have to be the face and the spokesperson for things where I didn’t get to be involved in the process. I was held accountable in a way that I began to find really frustrating, because I didn’t have a voice, I didn’t have a say,&#8221; Watson continued. &#8220;And I started to realize that I only wanted to stand in front of things where if someone was going to give me flak about it, I could say, in a way that didn’t make me hate myself, &#8216;Yes, I screwed up, it was my decision, I should have done better.’”
That&#8217;s not to say that Watson is finished with acting, she said, noting that if the right project were to come along, she would certainly jump at the chance to go back to movies: &#8220;Yes, absolutely. But I’m happy to sit and wait for the next right thing. I love what I do. It’s finding a way to do it where I don’t have to fracture myself into different faces and people. And I just don’t want to switch into robot mode any more.&#8221;
She has already tried her hand at directing, working behind the scenes late last year to write and direct an ad campaign for Prada.
&#8220;People always told me I should direct and produce, even when I was on Potter. I was worried it was just technical, not creative, and I couldn’t bring what I think is probably my skill set,&#8221; Watson explained, adding that the tipping point had been &#8220;friends asking for favors – ‘I need to do a photo shoot’ or ‘I’m making a video.’”
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&#8220;That made me realize I actually know quite a lot about that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Being a director seemed unattainable. I don’t think I had any confidence in that. I know it seems weird. I mean, I grew up on a film set.&#8221;

‘I Wasn’t Very Happy’: ‘Harry Potter’ Darling Explains Long Absence From Hollywood

'Harry Potter' Actress Emma Watson Explains Long Absence From Hollywood

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Excerpts from a diary written by the late actor Alan Rickman reveal what he really thought about his &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/harry-potter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harry Potter</a>&#8221; costars, directors, and even legendary score-composer John Williams.
According to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/24/alan-rickmans-secret-showbiz-diaries-harry-potter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a>, Rickman kept a diary of sorts as early as 1972 — but only really got serious about making detailed entries some 20 years later. From 1992 until his death of pancreatic cancer in 2016, Rickman churned out 26 volumes — some illustrated — which were condensed and curated into a book due out in October.
The book, titled &#8220;Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman,&#8221; features a series of diary entries written by the actor — who played the role of potions-master Severus Snape throughout the film series based on <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/twitter-deletes-trans-activist-video-with-j-k-rowling-death-threat-after-initially-saying-it-didnt-violate-safety-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling&#8217;s</a> books — over the course of his decades-long career.
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Alan Rickman, who brought Hogwarts potions master Severus Snape to life across eight “Harry Potter” films, wrote down his most unfiltered thoughts about the franchise – no veritaserum required. <a href="https://t.co/iiFF3AYAk3">https://t.co/iiFF3AYAk3</a>
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In the diaries, Rickman noted the day he &#8220;said yes to HP&#8221; — August 23, 2000 — and the fact that he began reading the books shortly after accepting the role. He then detailed his initial costume fittings and his first conversation with Rowling about the role.
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21 September 
HARRY P TAKES OFF. 
10.30am Car to costume fitting/discussion. Measurements from hell after a month in Italy. Waltz around each other – higher collar? Blue fabric? Thinner arms? And off to Leavesden Studios. Chris Columbus [director], David Heyman [producer], Makeup dept waiting. Wig? Nose?
6 October 
First conversation with Joanne Rowling. Her sister answers – “She’s not here – can I leave a message?” [There is] cackling in the background … “Sorry about that! … ” [I tell her:] “There are things that only Snape &amp; you know – I need to know … ” “You’re right [she replies] – call me tomorrow; no one else knows these things.”
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<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alan-rickmans-diary-reveals-what-he-really-thought-about-harry-potter-co-stars_n_6331bff8e4b0db74862d5da7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Other entries</a> detailed what he thought of specific actors he worked with — from complaints about their pronunciation (Emma Watson) to predicting that they might go on to direct (Daniel Radcliffe) — and of others who worked on the film series.
&#8220;I still don’t think he’s really an actor but he will undoubtedly direct/produce,&#8221; Rickman said of Radcliffe, praising his as &#8220;sensitive, articulate, and smart.&#8221;
&#8220;These kids need directing. They don’t know their lines,&#8221; he complained during the filming of the third movie, &#8220;The Prisoner of Azkaban.&#8221; Of Emma Watson — who played Hermione Granger — he complained that her pronunciation was &#8220;this side of Albania at times.&#8221;
Of the films, Rickman favored &#8220;The Prisoner of Azkaban&#8221; — saying of director Alfonso Cuarón&#8217;s work, &#8220;It is a very grown-up movie, so full of daring that it made me smile and smile. Every frame of it is the work of an artist and storyteller.&#8221;
His least favorite was the sixth film — &#8220;The Half-Blood Prince.&#8221; He complained in one entry: &#8220;The desire to eat and even more get a drink is matched only by the need to bang the three Davids’ heads against the nearest wall. I get the character development and the spiffing effects (dazzling), but where is the story????&#8221;
The &#8220;three Davids&#8221; he referenced were producers producers David Heyman and David Barron, and director David Yates.
Rickman also referred to the score of the first film, &#8220;The Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone&#8221; — written by veteran film composer John Williams — as &#8220;hideous.&#8221;

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Alan Rickman’s Diary Dishes All The Dirt On His ‘Harry Potter’ Costars

Alan Rickman's Diary Dishes All The Dirt On His 'Harry Potter' Costars

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In a remark that was <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/emma-watson-throws-savage-dig-26459076?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=sharebar">interpreted</a> by<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10609231/BAFTA-2022-Film-Awards-Emma-Watson-appears-throw-shade-JK-Rowling-subtle-dig.html"> various</a> <a href="https://www.gbnews.uk/news/emma-watson-appears-to-take-subtle-swipe-at-jk-rowling-im-here-for-all-the-witches/246746">British</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1503225839663685633">outlets</a> as a swipe at famed author J.K. Rowling, whose Harry Potter books prompted the films that made her famous, actress Emma Watson took the stage at the BAFTA awards on Sunday and proclaimed, “I’m here for all the witches.”
Watson was presenting the award for Best Outstanding British Film when she was prompted by host Rebel Wilson, who stated, “Here to present the next award is Emma Watson. She calls herself a feminist, but we all know she&#8217;s a witch.”
Wilson herself took a shot at Rowling, who has taken strong stands vis-à-vis the transgender movement; commenting on a photo shown on screen of her at the 2020 ceremony, Wilson sniped, “That was me two years ago and since then I&#8217;ve done quite a transformation – I hope J.K. Rowling still approves.”
Many social media users called Watson a “woke brat,” with some slamming her for being ungrateful toward Rowling.
In 2017, &#8220;non-binary&#8221; Orange is the New Black actress Asia Kate Dillon presented Watson the first &#8220;genderless&#8221; MTV award. Watson then <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nonbinary-actress-presents-feminist-emma-watson-amanda-prestigiacomo/">gave this speech</a>:
<blockquote>The first acting award in history that doesn’t separate nominees based on their sex says something about how we perceive the human experience. MTV’s move to create a genderless award for acting will mean something different to everyone, but, to me, it indicates that acting is about the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and that doesn’t need to be separated into two, different categories&#8230; Empathy and the ability to use your imagination should have no limits.</blockquote>
After Rowling argued in 2020 that transgender ideology &#8220;erased&#8221; the &#8220;lived reality&#8221; of women, Watson tweeted, “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.”
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Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.
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Rowling had stated, “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth. &#8230; The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women – ie, to male violence – ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences – is a nonsense.”
In 2017, after <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emma-watson-critics-vanity-fair_n_58bc55a7e4b05cf0f401376f">posing for a photo</a> for Vanity Fair in which she wore a white crocheted jacket with no shirt or bra, exposing the bottom of her breasts, Watson reacted to criticism by<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-emmawatson-idUSKBN16C0QV"> insisting</a>, “It just always reveals to me how many misconceptions and what a misunderstanding there is of what feminism is. Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which 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. &#8230; I’m confused. Most people are confused&#8230; I’m always just kind of quietly stunned.”

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An open letter signed by more than 200 high-profile women called on social media platforms Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter to take action when it comes to bullying and abuse.
These high-profile people included actress and activist Ashley Judd, former tennis star Billie Jean King, and British actress Emma Watson.
Addressed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the <a href="https://webfoundation.org/docs/2021/07/Generation-Equality-Open-Letter-to-tech-CEOs.pdf">letter</a> begins, “We write to you to ask that you urgently prioritize the safety of women on your platforms.”
Speaking of the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, during which “world leaders come together to agree on a plan to advance women’s rights,” the letter described the event as a “historic opportunity” for the “CEOs of some of the world’s most powerful tech platforms, to tackle one of the biggest barriers to gender equality: the pandemic of online abuse against women and girls.”
“The commitments you make today should be seen as a promise to women and girls around the world that you will decisively deal with the abuse that they are subject to on your platforms,” the letter continued.
According to the authors, “38% of women globally have directly experienced online abuse,” with this figure rising to “45% for Gen Zs and Millennials,” while the “abuse is often far worse” for “women of color, for black women in particular, for women from the LGBTQ+ community and other marginalized groups.”
“The internet is the town square of the 21st century. It is where debate takes place, communities are built, products are sold and reputations are made. But the scale of online abuse means that, for too many women, these digital town squares are unsafe. This is a threat to progress on gender equality,” the letter continued. “A huge volume of this abuse takes place on social media platforms — and its reach is global. Your decisions shape the way billions of people experience life online. With your incredible financial resources and engineering might, you have the unique capability and responsibility to ensure your platforms prevent, rather than fuel, this abuse.”
The authors did admit that “no quick-fix will cure the problem,” instead arguing that “there are many avenues to make significant progress.” They stated that it is “vital to put into action two priorities women have said are critical for their safety — more control of their experiences on your platforms, and better reporting systems:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Give people greater control to manage their safety. Rather than a one-size-fits-all experience, women should have more control over who can interact with them on tech platforms, as well as more choice over what, when and how they see content online. These tools should be easy to find and simple to use. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Improve your systems for reporting abuse. Current tools need to be improved so women can easily report abuse and track the progress of these reports. For example, dashboards that show users the status of all their reports in one place, features to guide them through the reporting process, and tools that offer women access to additional support when it’s needed, could make a huge difference.</li>
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“Commitments you make today to address these two areas are a positive and necessary step. How you take these forward also matters. As you work towards these goals, we’ll be watching: we will recognize when you make progress and hold you to account when you don’t,” the letter concluded, adding that Big Tech’s progress “against these commitments will be tracked annually.”
“Imagine what you can achieve if you follow through on commitments to build safer platforms: an online world where a journalist can engage with feedback on her reporting, not assassinations of her character. Where a politician may read complaints about her policies, but not threats of rape and murder. Where a young woman can share what she wants to on her terms, knowing there are systems to keep her safe and hold harassers accountable,” the letter noted. “If you build this better internet for women, you will build a better internet for everyone. You have the way. Now show the world that you also have the will.”

‘We’ll Be Watching’: More Than 200 High-Profile Women Demand Big Tech Stop ‘Pandemic Of Online Abuse Against Women And Girls’

Ashley Judd

Big Tech

Equality

&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; actress Emma Watson has now doubled-down on her claims of being &#8220;self-partnered&#8221; instead of single, saying she appreciates how the label has empowered people in their singlehood.
&#8220;I never believed the whole ‘I’m happy single’ spiel. I was like, ‘This is totally spiel.’ It took me a long time, but I’m very happy [being single].&#8221; Watson told <a href="https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/emma-watson-on-fame-activism-little-women">British Vogue</a> back in November. “I call it being self-partnered.”
Watson said her dismissiveness of the label single stemmed from the anxiousness of turning 30.
“I was like, ‘Why does everyone make such a big fuss about turning 30? This is not a big deal … ‘ Cut to 29, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I feel so stressed and anxious,&#8217;” Watson added. “And I realize it’s because there is suddenly this bloody influx of subliminal messaging around. If you have not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby, and you are turning 30, and you’re not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career, or you’re still figuring things out … There’s just this incredible amount of anxiety.”
Speaking with <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1101122/emma-watson-is-so-happy-people-feel-empowered-by-her-self-partnered-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E!’s “The Rundown”</a> this week, Watson said she intended her label to be a “throwaway comment&#8221; and did not realize it would gain such traction.
“I literally said it as a throwaway comment, thinking it would go no further,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And then I woke up the next morning and my phone’s blowing up and I don’t know why and it’s all my friends messaging me being like, ‘Self-partnered?’ This thing’s gone crazy.”
&#8220;I&#8217;m so happy people feel empowered,&#8221; she added, asserting she is &#8220;100% committed&#8221; to being self-partnered even when in a relationship.
“It’s much more about your relationship with yourself and the feeling of not somehow deficient in some way because you’re not with someone,” she continued.
At the time, when Emma Watson unveiled her new phrase for singlehood, Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire decried it as a &#8220;recipe for misery.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a recipe for misery. It’s not just in self-partnership,&#8221; Knowles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/knowles-self-partnership-is-a-recipe-for-misery">argued</a>. &#8220;AI has permitted sex robot technology to get really, really advanced. So there are now sex robot brothels, there are now sex robots that don’t just move their arms and do whatever sort of things you want a sex robot to do, they actually have chest cavities that can breathe. They’re actually simulating human beings. They’re really close. I mean, Mashable did a report on this the other day. They said that the robots are just as good as people. But they’re not people, they’re just hunks of metal and plastic.&#8221;
Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro argued this new trend in self-coupling indicates that society needs to take the social institution of marriage seriously again.
&#8220;Solving the problem of making right and moral decisions that better your life — that is how your life gets better,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-self-coupling-the-newest-frontier-on-the-culture-war">Shapiro said</a>. &#8220;That means taking seriously the fundamental social institutions that [have] been broken by the Left since the 1960s, focusing on restoring those — because those are things you can do. Not things that you have to wait for some government savior to do — and, by the way, those government saviors ain’t showing up.&#8221;

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Emma Watson Doubles Down On ‘Self-Partnered’ Label: ‘So Happy People Feel Empowered’

On Wednesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about Emma Watson’s recent announcement that she has chosen to be in a relationship with herself. Video and partial transcript below: 
Emma Watson is partnered to herself — in other words, she&#8217;s single. This is delusional language, and I understand why people are using this language, but you really shouldn&#8217;t because it&#8217;s going to lead to misery. 
First of all, I&#8217;m not saying marriage is for everyone. Some of the happiest people on earth are unmarried. There was a survey that that went around of the “happiest jobs” thing, I think this was in 2007 out of the University of Chicago, the happiest people in the world, the most job-satisfied and fulfilled people are actually celibate Catholic priests. So marriage is not for everybody. Plenty of religious people who are unmarried &#8230; are very happy. And for people who just happen to be single, they happen to be unmarried, there are ways to promote long-term happiness. 
There was another study out of Harvard. It&#8217;s one of the longest studies of adult life ever conducted, it showed that relationships with your family, relationships with friends, relationships with the local community, can seriously promote long-term happiness, even if you&#8217;re unmarried, or you&#8217;ve never been married, or you’re divorced, or you&#8217;re a widow.
The difference between all of those things and being self-partnered is the object of your relationships. Because priests are not self-partnered; priests are in a relationship with God. People who have long-term happiness and are unmarried are not self-partnered. They have strong bonds to their communities, their family, to friends to go to church, to going to the local PTA, going to the local Lions Club, whatever.
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Marrying yourself, self-partnership, all different. I mean, we&#8217;ve seen self-marriage crop up in recent years, not just Dennis Rodman. I mean, Dennis Rodman probably started this trend in the 1990s when he declared himself bisexual, put on a wedding dress, and said he was going to marry himself. When Dennis Rodman did that, we all laughed about it. We all joked, right, I mean this was kind of a ridiculous stunt. Now, years later, it&#8217;s actually happening. 
Two years ago, in 2017, a woman named Adriana Lima married herself. Other women have done this; their stories about this crop up all the time. They call it sologamy. Thirteen years ago, so after Rodman but before Adriana Lima, a woman named [Alexandra] Gill wed herself. And she said, quote, &#8220;You’re the one constant.&#8221;
&#8220;Your parents will die, your children will grow up and your friends will move, but you’re always there.&#8221; 
&#8220;I&#8217;m not looking for The One. I am The One.&#8221;
This is a recipe for misery. It&#8217;s not just in self-partnership &#8230; AI has permitted sex robot technology to get really, really advanced. So there are now sex robot brothels, there are now sex robots that don&#8217;t just move their arms and do whatever sort of things you want a sex robot to do, they actually have chest cavities that can breathe. They&#8217;re actually simulating human beings. They&#8217;re really close. I mean, Mashable did a report on this the other day. They said that the robots are just as good as people. But they&#8217;re not people, they&#8217;re just hunks of metal and plastic. 
But people are, I think, mistakenly doing all of these things. These women who are marrying themselves, or people who were buying sex robots, or people who were saying, I&#8217;m partnered with myself, I don&#8217;t need anybody. Forget the feminist line from the 70s, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” We can now say, “I need anybody else like a fish needs a bicycle. I don&#8217;t need anybody. I need me. All I need is myself. I am perfectly sufficient.”
Emma Watson had that feminist campaign a few years ago, called “HeForShe,” [but] it&#8217;s now becoming me for me. I understand the idea, there is a loneliness epidemic that&#8217;s going around this country and around the West generally. Loneliness is way, way up. There was a study came out of ViceLand, it surveyed young people, it found out that Millennials are more afraid of being lonely than they are of losing a job or losing a house. That survey showed that 42% of millennial women are more afraid of loneliness than they are of cancer. Stress, anxiety, depression — all up in recent years. Antidepressant pills, all up, people feeling very isolated, and so they turn to these these comforts, what they think are going to be comforts, sex robots, or the idea of self-sufficiency, or internet porn, which is just the same thing as sex robots, it&#8217;s just, you can&#8217;t touch it. It&#8217;s not as tangible, but it&#8217;s the same idea. 
Then ironically, when people turn to these things to alleviate their loneliness, they become more isolated. They become more withdrawn. Why? The reason is this culture of self-love — which you see all the time in leftist publications, you see it in Emma Watson talking to Vogue magazine — the cult of self-love has deluded people into confusing the virtue of endurance with the sin of pride. Everybody is going to be lonely — that happens to every single person multiple times throughout their lives for sometimes extended periods of time.
It is a virtue to be able to endure that loneliness, and what we try to do is mitigate the effects of that loneliness by engaging with our community, and by praying to God, and by involving ourselves in the whole world. Very different from the sin of pride, which tells us that we are sufficient unto ourselves, “I don&#8217;t need a partner. I don&#8217;t need it.”
But &#8230; human beings are not self-sufficient. It&#8217;s even, I think, sometimes conservatives want to lean a little too much in this direction of self-reliance. “I don&#8217;t need anybody else, I’ll just go it alone,” but you actually can&#8217;t. Human beings are meant to be in society together; there is no such thing as the state of nature where I&#8217;m a single individual atom just floating out in the universe. I&#8217;m born into a family, in a town, in a society with customs and traditions. Human beings are social animals, we are meant to be together. 
We&#8217;re the political animal. And what is the political animal? Politics is living together with other people and determining how you&#8217;re going to live and how you&#8217;re going to govern yourself. We feel that, and so we try to replace those social bonds with virtual social bonds — digital, virtual partnering with myself, or marrying myself, or looking at internet porn, or buying a sex robot. I understand the suffering that comes with it. I think the people who are saying these things are really trying hard to make the best of a bad situation. But denial is not going to help anything.
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Actress Emma Watson, who has been a leading supporter of the Time&#8217;s Up movement, decided to show off her new tattoo honoring the movement at the Oscars on Sunday evening, but the spellchecker for the tattooist didn&#8217;t get there in time.
Watson, who got her bachelor&#8217;s degree in English literature from Brown University in May 2014, displayed a tattoo reading &#8220;Times Up&#8221; without the requisite apostrophe, prompting some to express their disenchantment with the error:
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Emma Watson debuts new tattoo&#8230; with a glaring error <a href="https://t.co/IcZ1385WqA">https://t.co/IcZ1385WqA</a>
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Emma Watson&#8217;s new tattoo is so beautiful, but the spelling error is really annoying. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimesUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TimesUp</a>
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I thought it said &#8216;Times Ya&#8217;&#8230;
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The movement&#8217;s hashtag does not use an apostrophe. MSN quickly <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/whats-hot/emma-watson-unveils-a-times-up-arm-tattoo-and-the-internet-has-thoughts/ar-BBJTmxs">offered some hope</a> for Watson, reporting, &#8220;Thankfully, there&#8217;s a good chance Watson&#8217;s &#8220;new ink&#8221; is temporary&#8212;there&#8217;s a shine around the edges of the letters, so it was likely a cut-and-peel type appliqué.&#8221;
Watson has not only been vocal about her support for the Time&#8217;s Up movement, she <a href="http://www.instyle.com/news/emma-watson-bangs-golden-globes-activist-guest">brought a women&#8217;s rights activist</a> to the Golden Globes as her date. She also <a href="http://www.instyle.com/news/emma-watson-bafta-harassment-guidelines">donated</a> $1.4 million to the U.K. Justice and Equality Fund, which raises funds to stop sexual harassment in the workplace.

OOPS: Emma Watson Proudly Shows Off Her Tattoo At The Oscars. Something Is Missing.

Oscars

A slew of Hollywood A-listers &#8212; like Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson, Emma Watson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman &#8212; haven&#8217;t said a peep about Harvey Weinstein and his sex scandal sweeping Tinseltown.
Also mum: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who attended fundraisers with the famed film producers, hauling in millions from celebrities.
Weinstein was terminated this week by his board of directors after being accused of sexually harassing actresses Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd. In all, he negotiated at least eight settlements to women, who are bound by non-disclosure agreements under legal terms of the arrangements.
Many of the silent Hollywood starlets are advocates for women. Kidman is a United Nations women&#8217;s ambassador and said in 2013 that violence against women is &#8220;the greatest outrage.&#8221; But so far, she hasn&#8217;t said a word about Weinstein.
While other A-listers, like Meryl Streep, have finally weighed in, many have not. Roberts, who starred in several of Weinstein&#8217;s movies, signed an open letter demanding gender equality earlier this year, but so far hasn&#8217;t commented on Weinstein&#8217;s scandal.
Lawrence has also stayed quiet. She won an Oscar for Weinstein&#8217;s 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook, and has been vocal about being paid less &#8220;than the lucky people with d*cks.&#8221; So far, nothing.
Johansson has said fighting for equality is &#8220;an uphill battle&#8221; and that &#8220;sexism is real,&#8221; but she still hasn&#8217;t said anything about the sex scandal consuming Hollywood.
Watson has also been a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador since 2014, but she hasn&#8217;t posted a thought about Weinstein on Twitter, where 26.6 million people follow her.
Paltrow has been conspicuous in her silence. She won an Oscar for Weinstein&#8217;s film Shakespeare in Love in 1998, but hasn&#8217;t told her 2.9 million Twitter followers how she feels about the pervy director.
&#8220;Two days ago, Paltrow shared a photo of mountains in Georgia to her Instagram page and simply captioned it, &#8216;Georgia sunrise/moonset&#8217; with no mention of the news rocking Hollywood,&#8221; <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4963888/Gwyneth-Paltrow-trolled-silence-Harvey-Weinstein.html">the Daily Mail</a> reported on Monday. &#8220;&#8216;Your silence on the Harvey Weinstein situation speaks volume,&#8217; a female Instagram user wrote to Paltrow.&#8221;
Perhaps less surprising for their silence is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Both hauled in buckets of cash during fundraisers thrown by the Hollywood bigwig, a major Democratic Party money broker.
&#8220;Representatives for the Clintons have not responded to comment for this story, and Obama&#8217;s office declined to comment,&#8221; <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/09/politics/clinton-obama-weinstein/index.html">CNN</a> reported. &#8220;Clinton did not mention Weinstein during an appearance Monday night at the University of California, Davis, as part of her book tour, her first public appearance since the story broke.&#8221;
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been outspoken on the issue of sexual assault, also has not appeared to make any public statements about Weinstein since the report came out, and the Biden Foundation did not immediately respond to CNN&#8217;s request for comment.
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The silence is unacceptable to liberal pundit and former Democratic House candidate Krystal Ball.
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Clinton received hundreds of thousands from Weinstein in campaign &amp; foundation $. If she stays silent she makes us all look like hypocrites
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Hollywood A-Listers — Along With Hillary, Obama — Remain Mum On Harvey Weinstein

Barack Obama

Gwyneth Paltrow

Harvey Weinstein

Hillary Clinton

Joe Biden

Scarlett Johansson

On Sunday night, &#8220;non-binary&#8221; Orange is the New Black actress Asia Kate Dillon presented uber-feminist Emma Watson the first &#8220;genderless&#8221; MTV award. Watson gave a predictable spiel on gender equality, which she wrongly equates with sameness, and even stopped mid-speech to give the &#8220;non-binary&#8221; presenter a hug. It was peak virtue-signaling.
&#8220;This year has been full of firsts for me. I am the first, openly, non-binary actor to play a non-binary character on a major, television show and now it&#8217;s so cool to be here presenting the first, acting award ever that celebrates performance, free of any gender distinctions,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dashlane.com/en/gettingstarted-enable-partner?utm_source=app&amp;utm_campaign=iplatforms&amp;uid=402359833699405840320451873&amp;testCell=control2016_all">gushed </a>Dillon. &#8220;Tonight, we celebrate portrayals of the human experience because the only distinction we should be making when it comes to awards is between each outstanding performance. I am honored to give this golden popcorn trophy to one of these talented nominees.&#8221;
Watson gave the most SJW-appeasing speech of all time. 
&#8220;The first acting award in history that doesn&#8217;t separate nominees based on their sex says something about how we perceive the human experience. MTV&#8217;s move to create a genderless award for acting will mean something different to everyone, but, to me, it indicates that acting is about the ability to put yourself in someone else&#8217;s shoes and that doesn&#8217;t need to be separated into two, different categories,&#8221; said Watson. &#8220;Empathy and the ability to use your imagination should have no limits.&#8221;
Then the Beauty and the Beast actress stopped mid-sentence to hug and thank Dillon &#8220;for educating me in such an inclusive, patient and loving way. 
&#8220;I&#8217;m so proud to be a part of a film that celebrates diversity, literacy, inclusion, joy and love the way that this one does,&#8221; continued Watson. 
The Left, of course, had a <a href="https://www.dashlane.com/en/gettingstarted-enable-partner?utm_source=app&amp;utm_campaign=iplatforms&amp;uid=402359833699405840320451873&amp;testCell=control2016_all">full-blown orgasm</a> over the spectacle. After all, rich Hollywood elites solved female oppression! 
Yeah, not even close.
First of all, there are many more male than female lead actors. This will put women at a disadvantage if this &#8220;genderless&#8221; award trend continues. Also, men and women tend to play much different roles. For example, judging Hugh Jackman in Logan and Emma Watson for her role in a fairy tale in the same category seems ridiculous. This is why we have categories in the first place. If the genderless theme applies to an award show like the Oscars, women will start winning awards for purely politically correct reasons as a way to fill some SJW quota in Hollywood elites&#8217; minds, or men will likely dominate many more categories than they already do. 
So the Left should enjoy their &#8220;equality&#8221; now, before females don&#8217;t come out on the winning end of the genderless awards and we get a socially conscious #OscarsSoMale hashtag. 
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‘Non-Binary’ Actress Presents Feminist Emma Watson With First ‘Genderless’ Award. This Is Stupid.

Gender

As we&#8217;ve all come to know and laugh at, third-wave feminism is rife with glaring inconsistencies and double standards. One of the many tricky questions still tripping up feminists today is if showing your boobs is empowering or demeaning. 
According to feminist darling Emma Watson, not all breasts are equal. Her breasts are empowering, whereas Beyoncé&#8217;s are demeaning and play into the sexualized male gaze. 
Let me explain. 
Watson pushed back on the idea that exposing the bottom half of her breasts in a recent Vanity Fair cover shoot is somehow contradictory or harmful to feminism (image below). The Beauty and the Beast star explained that exposing her breasts was empowering because it was her &#8220;choice&#8221; to show off the girls. 
&#8220;It just always reveals to me how many misconceptions and what a misunderstanding there is of what feminism is,&#8221; <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/emma-watson-critics-vanity-fair_us_58bc55a7e4b05cf0f401376f">said </a>Watson, refuting the attacks on her photo shoot.
&#8220;Feminism is about giving women choice,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with. It&#8217;s about freedom, it&#8217;s about liberation, it&#8217;s about equality.&#8221;
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This take that feminism is all about &#8220;choice&#8221; is fine, or at least coherent. But then comes the consistent inconsistency of feminism: Watson has previously smacked Beyoncé for showing off her own goodies and owning her sexuality. 
As <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/emma-watson-slammed-hypocritical-criticism-beyonces-feminism/">noted </a>by The Telegraph, Watson felt &#8220;conflicted&#8221; with Queen Beyoncé&#8217;s take on feminism back in 2013, particularly her choice to be what the left calls sex-positive. 
&#8220;I felt very conflicted,&#8221; said Watson, &#8220;I felt [Beyoncé&#8217;s] 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.&#8221; 
The actress is essentially condemning the pop star for owning her sexuality, although Watson clearly feels it&#8217;s perfectly fine for her to do so by posing half-nude.
Apparently, owning your own sexuality and showing your boobs is Good Feminism when you&#8217;re Emma Watson and Bad Feminism when you&#8217;re Beyoncé. 
The tricky rules of feminism live on!

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