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If Emma Watson actually wanted to help women she wouldn’t have agreed to be a Disney princess

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Emma Watson’s latest Vanity Fair shoot has the world aghast at the idea that the Beauty And The Beast star has breasts.

Whether or not she should show them off when she counts herself a feminist and a UN ambassador for women is a long discussion by itself.

But Emma’s magazine work is not the real issue I have with her being feted Western feminist icon for our age.

The simple fact is that Disney doesn’t do women justice.

Imagine. Emma is one of the most famous, sought-after actresses in the world, worth an estimated £57million, and an icon for so many kids and 20-somethings who grew up with Hermione Granger.

Notwithstanding Emma’s recent effort to spread the act of reading, her #HeForShe campaign and the speeches she’s made about feminism to various important people, working with Disney on their new live action remake was a serious mistake.

Walt Disney was famously conservative and actually pretty archaic in his views of what women should do with their lives,… Read the full story


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