The thing is that last weekend, she gave a speech supporting the HeForShe campaign, a project run by UN Women in support of women's equality around the globe. Watson, in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, denounced the negative impact that rigid gender roles have on both men and women. Here's the video:
Someone finally said it! Thank you, Emma.
"So, what's the matter?", you'd ask me. Well... It looks like Watson has been threatened. And my question is, why? Because she spoke out the truth!? This made me mad, but as I kept reading information about it, it didn't surprise me. The ones that threatened her were 4chan users. I have no idea what kind of website is 4chan, but this is not the first time that they do something like this.It seems they have bad reputation, as I could see with my own eyes a while ago when they declared war on Tumblr users. Tumblr is a website that supports feminism, the LGBT community and people of color. This may seem like a good thing, right? But I know for sure that they support those communities too much, to the point of being extremists and hating on white men. But that is not the point. The point is that 4chan users hacked a lot of Tumblr accounts to upload there nsfw pictures that were very triggering to the majority of the Tumblr community. And they did it just because this website supported all those communities and they're against them.
So, getting back to Emma's issue... The users on 4chan, which has been also one of the major conduit sites for the stolen celebrity nude photos, are sending the clear message that they think it's okay for any anonymous person on the internet to leak naked photos of Watson whenever they please, saying that they will do it at any moment. And I saw some of those 4chan users' comments, that said things like "That feminist bitch Emma is going to show the world she is as much of a whore as any woman", and "She makes stupid feminist speeches at UN, and now her nudes will be online, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH".
... Just how much of a stupid, mindless jerk you have to be to behave like that? Don't you find it sad that, at this time of the history, year 2014, there's still people in society who think like 50 years before? As I see it, feminism nowadays should be something of common sense, and it shouldn't be this hard to obtain equal rights for everyone. But, as always, the problem is in the education. We need to educate ourselves more and better to obtain results: I have always thought that.
In conclusion; I'm not sure if in the end this was a real threat or it was just an ugly joke. What makes me angrier is that, if they actually leaked pictures of Emma, it wouldn't be to see her naked. It would be to see her hurt, and to get the pleasure of humiliating a woman who offended them just by standing up for herself and for other women.
