Celebrity feminist UN-endorsed superhero Emma Watson is the cover star of the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine, because, in case you haven’t heard, she has a new movie out soon.
As expected, the gushing profile inside is the usual flood of praise heaped on praise, accompanied by a downright bizarre photoshoot (and a semi-topless shot so she gets in the tabloids).
However, even author Derek Blasberg can’t escape the obvious, and raises the prospect that ordinary people by now surely find Watson’s endless moral interventions, well, really annoying.
It comes upon learning that before wearing a dress in public, Watson sends a PowerPoint presentation to her designers asking about the garment’s environmental impact, and demanding a “moral reason” to wear it:
As [a friend, Gloria] Steinem honors Watson’s high moral standards and relentless activism, I ask her if there’s a risk of becoming, well, annoying to the general public.
Is she too much of an ethical Goody Two-Shoes? After all, what other starlet assigns fashion designers homework before she wears their clothes?
Unsurprisingly, he does not get a great response, and is promptly accused of sexism. Watson’s pal asks:
If you did a story on a young male actor who was very private and involved in activism, would you think he was too severe or serious? Why do women always have to be listeners? Emma is interested in the world, she is caring, and though she is active she is also joyous and informed
Blasberg admits he’s been owned and promptly finds himself “backpedaling” on the suggestion, and switches back to a few hundred words of eulogy to top the piece off.
However, if there’s anybody who ought to know how annoying “relentless activism” can be, it is Watson herself.
In another recent magazine interview – as the cover star for the UK edition of Elle – Watson confessed that she was so sick of SJWs critiquing her feminism that she locked herself in her apartment for a day and refused to get out of bed.