I mean, yeah, being a Feminist Studies major, I’ve read about the gaze before. Thanks for the education and all.

I disagree. I think that Watson’s under the impression her wealth and the power of her whiteness gives her enough privilege to overcome the effects sexism has on her life, and she’s wrong. What’s actually happening is she’s confusing trying to CREATE a world in which doing things like this is not incompatible with…

Not that this treatment would be morally acceptable in a prison either.

I hate how “artistic” has become code for “mostly naked.”

WORD.

I almost entirely agree with this article. However, Watson spoke to the UN; she has endeavored to become an activist and an international organizer for women’s rights. Doing THAT does mean, in today’s society, giving up certain freedoms—like the freedom to go nearly topless in a magazine spread. That’s just a question…

I mean, I don’t totally agree with you though. England might have assimilated a long time ago, but Ireland (and to some extent Scotland) is still fighting English rule. There’s a long history of Irish women being subjected to rape and abuse at the hands of the English, and to Irish people being summarily denied their…

I mean-YES, okay, I get it, he’s an asshole. However, I agree with him here. It’s totally unprofessional for a newspaper to print something like this. Also, honestly-people do things like this, and it helps create guys like Sean. They alienate him and joke in underhanded ways, and it makes him not want to care about…

I get that. I mean-I can’t, and wouldn’t want to, defend the impacts of her actions. I just think that to someone who’s that confused about her identity and family and origins, who might have been abused and doesn’t feel like she can trust her parents or even that they are her parents—maybe to someone like that, the…

Yeah, WORD. Being homeless sucks for everyone, especially women, especially POC. Especially abuse survivors...I mean when she’s sexually assaulted, like most homeless women are, and tries to come forward, no one’ll believe her, right?

Yeah, true. Besides-people with histories of abuse are notoriously unreliable as witnesses, especially about our own lives, because we can’t quite trust our own minds. That’s like—not even mental illness, it’s mental INJURY because of what we’ve been through. Not understanding that and the consequences, and trying to…

She was really effective in her capacity, though, right? So doesn’t she deserve work that she can put her skills to good use in?

Definitely don’t consider her one of my own

I mean, obviously she was never “Black” to begin with. However, Black is a constructed and therefore highly unstable category, so her argument that she belongs in it makes some sense within a bizarre and nonsensical cultural context.

Loving potentially abusive parents?

I’m pretty sure that condemning everyone asking questions you don’t want them to doesn’t exactly strengthen your argument.

I just think she should acknowledge she messed up and try to make amends. She DID mess up, hugely. I think though that people would be kinder to her, and that she would deserve kindness more, if she admitted her mistake.

Sure, but how is this all THAT different from the variety of other Black women getting butt implants and “bronzing” and whatever?

I mean, of all the people doing serious harm to Black people, though, I really doubt that she’s anywhere near the top of the list.

Yeah. So then there’s the question of ‘what does it matter what her ethnicity is if she’s doing all this good work.’