Analysis on Emma Watson’s speech, “Gender Equality is Your Issue Too”
Emma Watson, best known as a leading actress in the Harry Potter series, gave a speech titled “Gender equality is your issue too” during a HeForShe campaign at the United Nations headquarters in New York City during on September 20, 2014, in attempt to raise awareness about gender inequality. Throughout the speech, Watson attempted to persuade the audience in joining the HeForShe campaign by providing examples of those who have been subject to the burdens of gender inequality – however, this speech could be considered problematic due to Watson’s lack of credibility and failure to include all types of people in our society. What mainly gave rise to Watson addressing this topic was her emotions attached to the burdens people have felt because of gender inequality. Watson used pathos, an appeal to emotion, to grasp the audience’s attention. Watson provides examples of events in her own life such as, “When at 14, I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media,” which has helped spark her interest in taking steps to end gender inequality (Watson). Watson provided numerous examples of other women, “When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of sports teams because they didn’t want to appear muscly,” as well as examples of males (Watson). Watson recognizes the fact that men are typically less likely to join in the fight for gender equality. In order for Watson to later “invite” men to join the
Emma Gonzales, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School read a very inspiring speech towards lawmakers and gun advocates. Emma wrote this speech and gave it at a rally to try and get to President Trump and tell everyone it's basically his fault and to make a stop to selling guns to mentally ill people and people that dont need them. Emma created this speech to persuade the audience at the rally of how a school shooter costed her school to lose 17 students and some of them were even teachers. Using the rhetorical appeals to show emotion and showing that these students experienced this tragic event, Emma even shaved her head to show she was grieving. She uses emotion and logic to show emotion and sadness towards the
Watson’s speech depicts feminism as a notion that advocates for equality
Throughout the readings, a major theme that kept reoccurring was the idea of gender inequality. Gender inequality is an issue that is still happening today, but it’s now
Gender Equality is Your Issue Too is an empowering speech given by the Harry Potter actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson. Watson gave this motivating speech on gender equality at an event for HeforShe, an organization to help reduce the hypersexualization of societal views. In order to help spread awareness for this cause and for HeforShe, Watson gave this speech that was not only adequate, but strong. Watson is effective in getting her point across and making people think about the issue by using anecdotal evidence, discussing basic “human” rights, and including men into the discussion on gender equality issues. Watson’s speech is effective at getting her point across and making her audience think about the issue.
Many speeches have been made in support of creating equal rights for all men and women, these including Emma Watsons he-for-she speech that was aired across
It is about gender equality and that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men. Emma Watson’s speech mentioned the different gender stereotypes. For an example, there is the stereotype that men have to be aggressive and strong and that women are weak. Who set this standard? Men are just as unequal as women are but everyone deserves to be equal. “Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive… strong…” Gender is something that is innate and is out of our control, so why are we judged by something we can’t change. Part of seeing in a new way is to accept people for the way they are. Everyone should go by the saying they learned in elementary school “Treat others the way you want to be treated”. We wouldn’t want to be put down or have to act a certain way just to conform with others. Everyone is unique in their own way and should be show the world what they can contribute to the
When looking Southern’s video the aimed to destroy feminism and the stigma attached to third wave feminism is a clear motive. Southern starts her video with a strong but intimidating rhetorical question “If feminism is a movement for equality why don’t we see squad representation of both genders issues?”. This not only shocks the audience but also intrigues them explore the antifeminist argument. Watson’s transcript explores and expresses the unfair stereotypes that females and males have to endure on a frequent basis. Watson uses rhetorical questions in her speech “In a country that has achieved marriage equality, shouldn’t gender equality be next?’“. As the rhetorical question was stated at the end of the transcript it is a powerful solid
In my opinion, do not is possible establish a rule in the case of famous people otherwise, they can say opinions interesting or little substantiated, similar to any people. To illustrate in the last sense enough is to know the declarations of Shaquille O’Neal when he said that the earth has a plane surface. His grand argument it is that when he drove from Florida to California, all time he looked a plain surface. Obviously, that argument does not have a scientific foundation.
In this essay I will be comparing and analysing Emma Watsons ‘Gender Equality is your issue too’ speech, executed on the 20th of September, 2014. Watson had pre-prepared this speech, as it was performed for the HeForShe campaign at the UN Headquarters, in New York. Alongside Tim Collins’ speech to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, in Iraq, 2003 – of which was an eve-of-battle rousting and of which had not been prepared, prior to British troops entering Iraq.
Women Goodwill Ambassador. She is speaking about the problem of gender equality and unequal pay for men and women doing the same work. Her purpose is to demonstrate to the audience that the problem affects both men and women. She is fighting for women’s rights, but also trying to persuade men and boys to step up and help the women fight by joining her campaign, HeforShe. Her primary audience is all the delegates and guests who listened to her speech at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and her secondary audience is men and boys all over the world. She appeals to ethos when she speaks about her own personal experiences with gender based assumptions from ages eight to eighteen in. She says her girlfriends dropped out of their sport teams in order to not appear so masculine. She appeals to pathos when gives the statistics on men’s suicide in the UK in order to tell men that gender equality is their problem as well. She is saying men also fear asking for help because they fear that they will appear un-manly. Watson’s speech is also structured by Monroe’s motivated sequence. She starts off her speech by speaking about her campaign and talking about how her experiences at different ages caused her to become a feminist in order to get the audience’s attention. She then tells the men and boys that gender equality is their issue too. This causes them to understand the need for change. She then formally invites them to help
In Mia Mckenzie’s article, “Why I’m Not Really Here for Emma Watson’s Feminism Speech At the U.N.” (published September 24, 2014), McKenzie argues comparably with Watson’s speech, indicating that she could have approached it differently. Watson’s speech expresses an end on gender equality, particularly focusing on westernized issues. McKenzie conveys key points throughout her article but in some ways did not acknowledge Watson the credit she deserved, she mostly manifested criticism towards Watson’s ideology. Arguably, both McKenzie and Watson share a different standpoint into feminism and its influence. Both McKenzie and Watson including westernized women are efficiently pampered when it comes to
Bothe speeches were delivered at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Emma Watson, at the age of 24, launched a campaign called “HeForShe” on September 20, 2014. She is the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and she was cohosting this event when she gave the speech. She is a famous British actress and has been advocating for gender equality.
On September 20, 2014, a speech was delivered to spark the HeForShe campaign movement among the United Nations Headquarters in New York. HeForShe is a campaign for gender equality, which is not only problematic for women but for men as well; their goal is to encourage men and boys to become advocates for change. Emma Watson, Goodwill Ambassador of UN Women, played a significant role in the campaign, where she was the speaker for the occasion. She spoke against the end of gender inequality, as well as about feminism and how the word no longer is perceived as a “popular” word but as an “unpopular” word. Watson meet the needs of her audience and the occasion, established some creditability, and mildly addressed any objections.
Known for her roles in Harry Potter, Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Beauty and the Beast, Emma Watson is a British actress, model, and style icon. In 2014, she graduated from Brown University with a degree in English. Since then she has promoted the education of girls in many countries including Bangladesh and Zambia (United Nations, 2014). In July of 2014 she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill ambassador. According to the United Nation’s News Centre, “The role of the Goodwill Ambassador is to promote the empowerment of young women and to serve as an advocate for UN Women’s ‘HeForShe’ campaign.” ‘HeForShe’ is a movement to bring both men and women together to fight against gender inequality. As an ambassador, she has given several public speeches encouraging more people to join the ‘HeForShe’ campaign. These speeches have been broadcast to the mass media via television, radio, and magazines.
According to Emma Watson (2014), “Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong.” In this quote, Emma Watson is giving a speech about gender inequality to show the world that both men and women should have the opportunity to be open with their emotions and to be true to themselves. However, the history of strict gender roles has allowed them to become afraid of switching those roles. From the 18th century to modern time, men were seen as powerful, aggressive, courageous, and intelligent. Women during the 18th century were seen as modest, compassionate, piety, and passive. These restrictive gender roles haven’t changed much and are now going to negatively impact the workplace as well. Since men and women are afraid of switching gender roles this means less women in male-dominated careers and less men in women-dominated fields. Politics has always been a male-dominated career field and not many women choose this career choice because of their fear of negative judgement from others. However, both men and women are negatively affected by gender inequality in political careers because of strict gender roles enforced by society. Enforced gender roles in political careers has made the flaws of male characteristics and female characteristics appear extremely discouraging and also violates human rights as well.