Emma Watson is perhaps best known as an actress in her role as Hermoine in the Harry Potter series of movies. Now she has grown into a beautiful young woman. Of lately, in the News she has been championing the cause for women's rights. As seen in the picture above, she had recently made a speech on behalf of women's rights at the U. N. This of course bothers me for obvious reasons. Like what "serious issues" are Western women facing that would cause Emma to bring women's rights issues to the attention of the U. N.? Western women are among the most privileged women in the world. Below is the quote from Emma, with my response that follows.
"EMMA WATSON SPEAKS TO THE UN ABOUT EQUALITY FOR WOMEN:
'Fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating... This has to stop. For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.'" --Planned Parenthood.
MY RESPONSE: "Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband." (Ephesians 5:33, NKJV). Paul's command to married couples is simple. Husbands are to "love" their wives, and wives are to "respect" their husbands. Do married couples do this perfectly? No, this is why Paul admonishes couples to love and respect each other. However, in today's feminist inspired political climate that promotes "the hatred of men." There is an obvious rift and hostility between men and women that makes it extremely difficult to fulfill Paul's command here. Difficult, but not impossible if married couples learn to obey Paul's words in the above Scripture text. As already mentioned, below are some of my thoughts on Emma Watson's quote in the picture above.
First, "Fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating... This has to stop." I agree, man-hating has to stop. Feminism needs to stop pumping their "man-hating" propaganda into our society. and start taking their advice as mentioned above and start fighting for the rights of men as much as they do for women's rights. Now the reason why "fighting for women's rights" has been often associated with "man-hating" in today's society should be obvious. I give some reasons in my second point below.
Second,"For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.'" Man, nothing could be further from the truth. Feminism by definition has always been about "women's rights" only. Hence, its name. Women already have equal rights and opportunities in today's society. I have never seen feminist advertisements defending the rights of men other then TV commercials, sitcoms, cartoons, and movies that demean, mock, and outright demonize men. Talk about Misandry 101. This is a part of the reason why feminism is associated with "man-hating." If feminism was truly about EQUAL RIGHTS for all, if they were about men's rights, they would be fighting to keep father's in families, they would be fighting against the injustices of unreasonable alimonies heaped upon good men by law courts, while at the same time keeping them from seeing their children. Also, feminism has influenced society to view men as potential perpetrators and criminals. Man, I could give a whole list of issues that affect men that feminists either pretend they don't know about, ignore, or simply could not care less.
A case in point, a recent debate that took place in Toronto, Canada had four leading feminists debating the issue concerning the question "Are Men Obsolete?" One of the feminist debators, Caitlin Moran gave this revealing response to one of the Moderator Rudyard Griffiths' questions. She said: "I don't know. I never have any advice for men in the way I do for women." Another feminist debator, Maureen Dowd made this telling response to one of Mr. Griffiths' questions. "I think that you should just do whatever we tell you to do." These are well known leading feminists who have nothing worth while to say about men's plight in today's society. Again, if feminism was truly about the rights of men as they are about the rights of women, they would be informed about the injustices men face. The fact is, they are not. Now as for Emma Watson fighting for women's rights. What rights? How are women being discriminated against in today's society? Sorry, women in North America are definitely NOT OPPRESSED. They are among some of the most privileged women in the world.
