{"id":23808,"date":"2017-03-06T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=23808"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:02:31","slug":"emma-watson-shuts-critics-said-braless-vanity-fair-shoot-isnt-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/celebrities\/emma-watson-shuts-critics-said-braless-vanity-fair-shoot-isnt-feminist.html","title":{"rendered":"Emma Watson Shuts Down Critics Who Said Her Braless Vanity Fair Shoot Isn&#8217;t Feminist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Emma Watson Shuts Down Critics Who Said Her Braless Vanity Fair Shoot Isn&#39;t Feminist<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Emma Watson Shuts Down Critics Who Said Her Braless Vanity Fair Shoot Isn&#39;t <\/strong><strong class=\"gr-progress\">Feminist:-<\/strong> Actress and all-around Renaissance woman Emma Watson had some strong words for critics\/trolls who said her recent Vanity Fair shoot was hypocritical of her feminist views. (Watson is the U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for Women and a driving force behind the #HeForShe campaign, BTW.) One of the images from the spread features a photo of an openwork capelet draped over her bare chest, and <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">apparently<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> some people have an issue with this.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&ldquo;It just always reveals to me how many misconceptions and what a misunderstanding there is about what feminism is,&rdquo; Watson told Reuters during a Beauty and the Beast presser. &ldquo;Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with. It&rsquo;s about freedom, it&rsquo;s about liberation, it&rsquo;s about equality. I really don&rsquo;t know what my tits have to do with it. It&rsquo;s very confusing.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Here&#39;s the image in question:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BREIp12gHjk\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maturing from Hermione to Belle in @beautyandthebeast is a true coming-of-age story for @EmmaWatson: &#34;I couldn&#39;t care less if I won an Oscar or not if the movie didn\u2019t say something that I felt was important for people to hear.&#34; Read the full cover story at the link in bio. Photograph by Tim Walker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2017-02-28T18:02:32+00:00\">Feb 28, 2017 at 10:02am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Some people saw it quite differently: Radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer, in a widely retweeted post featuring the so-called &quot;controversial&quot; image, commented that &quot;&#8230;she complains that women are sexualised and then <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">sexualises<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> herself in her own work. Hypocrisy.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Emma Watson: &quot;Feminism, feminism&#8230; gender wage gap&#8230; why oh why am I not taken seriously&#8230; feminism&#8230; oh, and here are my tits!&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gb7OvxzRH9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gb7OvxzRH9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuliaHB1\/status\/836873834414366720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">But images like this aren&#39;t about some sort of cheap objectification or stripping off to draw the male gaze. It can be liberating, artistic, and, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">yep<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">, feminist to express your sexuality on your own terms.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&ldquo;We&rsquo;d been doing so many crazy things on that shoot but it felt incredibly artistic and I&rsquo;ve been so creatively involved and engaged with [fashion photographer Tim Walker], and I&rsquo;m so thrilled about how interesting and beautiful the photographs were,&rdquo; Watson said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Watch the clip of the interview below:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnews\/videos\/10154454927247217\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnews\/videos\/10154454927247217\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Ultimately, it&#39;s up to Watson to decide what she&#39;s comfortable with. 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