Emma Watson: What Does It Means To Be A Feminist

Emma Watson uses ethos to convince the audience that she is a credible source. Towards the beginning of her speech, Watson explained that her, “girlfriends [dropped]... out of sports…”(1) because appearing muscly would not fit their gender stereotype. Watson mentions her personal experience to make her credible. By mentioning this, people will know why she is familiar with feminism. Since she has experienced gender inequality firsthand, she knows why feminism is necessary and more people will find her as a reliable source. Later in her speech, she mentions a speech made by Hillary Clinton in 1997.

She is one of the world’s most famous feminists in the twenty-first century. Since the age of eight, Watson has experienced gender-based assumptions that prepare her for a life of ridicule and degrading. She incorporates habit one in her life at the age of 14 when the press would start to sexualize her. Living a proactive life, her “expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men, and unattractive” (qtd. in Watson 1). In her speech, she describes what her goals are and what her rights should be. Watson began her journey with the end in mind, similar to the lesson habit two teaches. Her goal is to have equal rights for women and men

Emma Watson main claims are that men must also be involved to gain gender equality, she also focuses on defining the word She also feminism, and it effects the social stigma. She also talks about how women are not the only one who are being hurt by the gender inequal, but men are also being affected by it. Her last claim is that “if not her hen who”, she’s pointing out that everyone has to stand up to end gender

Such a perspective to view women as the oppressors help reveals the reality men are facing every day. The rise of feminism and women’s expectations of men has caused them to experience emotional stress. Male activists claim that “anti-rape campaigns that stigmatize all men as potential rapists, to pedagogical strategies that favour the learning style of girls and women, and the explicit

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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.

Her extrinsic ethos is strong. As a well-educated woman who has been world-widely famous for starring in Harry Potter, she has been dedicating her efforts towards the empowerment of young women and also succeeds in confirming her credibility to her audience through siting experiences she has endured relating to the gender-equality issue at hand. Moreover, the audience’s response and expectation should not be neglected during writing. At first glance, it seems that the audience are women who is always considered as disadvantaged group and Emma spoke for them and encouraged them to seek gender equality. But, it is not true. As the campaign’s name suggests, Emma’s speech with the emotional and informal tone and language is to divert public attention and persuade males to be awareness of the importance of getting male involved in helping to end gender

“It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets opposing ideals. We should stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by who we are.” States British Actress and Ambassador for UN Women Goodwill, Emma Watson, in her persuasive speech, “HeForShe.” Watson speaks to “galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality” (Watson). For centuries women’s rights have been fought for as well as debated for, paying little to no attention to the inequality of men.

Throughout history and having coalesced to the present, feminism has begun to crescendo as a movement for social, political, and economic equality of both sexes. Acting as an ambassador and an embodiment of an agent of change, Emma Watson and her speech can be seen as a catalyst against gender inequality. Her speech is a buttress to the feminism movement as it utilizes factual information to corroborate Watson’s credibility, which then permeates to the sentiment of listeners. Through her delivery and tone burgeoning with passion, an amalgamation of the paradigm between speaker and the audience is seen being masterfully cultivated. The fact that this audience is the United Nation's committee, Emma Watson can be seen as a global ambassador for female rights. Through Watson's virulent stance against gender stereotypes, inequality, and bias, the feminism proclamation is guaranteed to not fall on deaf ears.

Gender inequality has been an issue in society for hundreds of years and it is still a barrier for men and women today. Emma Watson, a United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador and British actress, delivered a passionate and moving speech on gender inequality at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 20, 2014. Watson’s speech, “Be The He For She”, was directed towards the billions of people who watched the televised speech, as well as fellow United Nations Ambassadors. Emma Watson uses this speech in order to inform and persuade the audience about gender inequality and feminism. As she presented her speech, she was trying to persuade billions of people, mostly men, to become advocates for ending gender inequality.

However, something we often fail to realise is that although we may support equality, we tend to pick and choose what suits us. Popular and major aspects of equality such as racism and gender equality are widely supported, but the finer details of those aspects are constantly overlooked. When we say we support gender equality, we empower women, support them and allow equal opportunities - which is the right thing to do as it allows women their basic human rights. However, the smaller and less talked about aspects of gender equality are overlooked. If we are raising awareness and providing support for female victims of abuse, why aren’t we doing the same for male victims of abuse? We have to overcome the stigma of males, only being the perpetrators of abuse, in order to allow our world to flourish - and that begins with recognising and accepting the human emotional needs in men. Just as the solidarity campaign, HeforShe states - ‘Emotions are not bound to one

Feminism, what is it? And how does it affect our society today? Feminist Emma Watson’s moving speech ‘Gender equality is your issue to’ tells us feminism isn't just a thought, it’s a true problem. Feminism is a topic known to many, but rejected by most of society. Watson shows her audience true emotion (Pathos), dedication, and love throughout her speech. She gives a clear aspect of feminism, making her listeners engaged into the topic, wanting to know more (Logos). She invites others into her ideas to ensure that she does not stand alone in this feminist movement (Ethos). Emma Watson is a true feminist trying to make a difference, persuading the audience, pouring her heart out, and believing in the world to join her in her free community.

In eighteenth century which feminist in social status was not popular by that time, author can only through literature to express her thought and discontented about society. Jane Austen’s Emma advocates a concept about the equality of men and women. Also satirizes women would depend on marriage in exchange to make a living or money in that era. By the effect of society bourgeois, Emma has little self-arrogant. She is a middle class that everyone could admire, “Young, pretty, rich and clever”, she has whatever she needs. She disdains to have friends with lower levels. However, she is soon reach satisfaction with matchmaking for her friend. Story characterizes a distorted society images and the superiority of higher class status. It

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

Watson recalls a time from when faced the unsatisfactory of assumptions of young women, when she said “at age [fourteen] I started being sexualized by certain elements of the press” also when her peers began to submit towards the societal intimidation which placed upon them saying, according to Watson, “When at [fifteen] my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they didn’t want to appear “muscly.”” Watson shared these illustrations to allow her audience to be familiar with someone who has been a target to gender inequality. Without seeing the matter of gender inequality, the problem can be very blind at times; without actually viewing it through the human experiences, it can be lost to statistics and generalizations. Personifying the matter allows it to strengthen the sympathy and compassion from the audience to be felt for the speaker.