There’s only one thing more dramatic than a feud between big name celebs: a feud between the FANS of big name celebs.
There are some feuds we can see coming from a mile off: Taylor Swift and Kanye West. Or Taylor Swift and Katy Perry.
But this latest celebrity drama has us a little confused, because…well, it just makes no sense.
You see, Beyoncé’s fans are taking aim at Emma Watson.
It’s feminism vs. feminism and…it’s really not helping anyone at all.
It all started when Emma Watson posed without a bra for Vanity Fair. When critics took aim at the Beauty and the Beast star, she hit back by saying feminism shouldn’t be used to bring other women down.
“[Feminism] is about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality,” she told BBC News when asked to respond to the controversy over the photos.
“I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it. It’s very confusing.”
Now, Beyoncé fans have branded the 26-year-old actress a hypocrite.
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Why? It seems three years ago, in a 2014 interview with Wonderland Magazine, Emma took issue with the particular brand of feminism Beyoncé portrayed in her 2013 visual album.
“As I was watching [the videos] I felt very conflicted, I felt her message felt very conflicted in the sense that on the one hand she is putting herself in a category of a feminist, but then the camera, it felt very male, such a male voyeuristic experience of her,” Emma said.
Queen Bey fans have begun to flood Emma’s Instagram account with bee emojis.
They've also expressed their annoyance on Twitter:
Neither party has responded to the drama...probably because they're both too busy kicking the patriarchy's butt.
Top Comments
Please PLEASE in the new dawn of alternative facts and fake news, can you stop reporting on people's instagram accounts and go to the actual interviews that have been dragged up and misrepresented? And then report them in full?? If you did, you'd find a very measured and balanced view from Emma Watson re Beyonce's performance that align with her reasons for doing this cover. Not that either decision should have to be defended; but that's the patriarchy at work.
You say that Emma Watson and Beyoncé are not responding to this drivel because they're busy "kicking the patriarchy's arse." As a feminist website, why don't you do the same.
I dont think there was anything wrong with what Emma said. Beyonce fans are known to be quite nasty with their "pack mentality" - making death threats, flooding comment sections with bee emojis, very sad that they feel that they need to this to a young woman that just wants to promote gender equality.