Emma Watson Tweets Clarification For People Saying She Shamed Beyoncé’s Feminism
Emma Watson’s recent photo shoot for Vanity Fair included an image of her posing topless except for a see-through jacket resting on her shoulders, and it wasn’t long before internet trolls and tabloids alike criticized her underboob. According to them, you can’t show off your body and be a feminist, which the outspoken activist and actress quickly shut down in a subsequent interview with Reuters. “Feminism is about giving women choice,” she said, clearly frustrated. “Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women. It’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality.”
Her plea, though impassioned, also received criticism, but this time from Beyoncé fans who accused her of hypocrisy. See, back in 2014, the Beauty and the Beast actress interviewed Tavi Gevinson for Wonderland, and their conversation included a critique from Emma about the music videos Beyoncé released along with her self-titled album. She said, “As I was watching [the videos] 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…