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| Hackers are trying to silence Emma Watson by leaking naked photos - but they only made her voice louder | Hackers are trying to silence Emma Watson by leaking naked photos - but they only made her voice louder |
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| It’s amazing how quickly your Twitter feed can turn. One minute mine was filled with people congratulating Emma Watson on her UN speech, urging men to join the fight for gender equality. The next, all I saw were retweets of this: | It’s amazing how quickly your Twitter feed can turn. One minute mine was filled with people congratulating Emma Watson on her UN speech, urging men to join the fight for gender equality. The next, all I saw were retweets of this: |
| DAILY STAR FRONT PAGE: "Emma Watson naked photo shock" #skypapers pic.twitter.com/onVCuLQrtw | DAILY STAR FRONT PAGE: "Emma Watson naked photo shock" #skypapers pic.twitter.com/onVCuLQrtw |
| Bypassing, for the moment, the sheer grotesque wrongness of the phrase “Harry Potter babe’s stolen sex pics”, what really upset me about this front page was that it seemed to be designed to put the actor back in her box. To make it clear that if she dared to stand up for anything more controversial than which brand of wand to use, then someone out there would make it their mission to attempt to humiliate and shame her. And it says everything about the minds of these people that they assume the most humiliating thing any woman can experience is public nudity. | Bypassing, for the moment, the sheer grotesque wrongness of the phrase “Harry Potter babe’s stolen sex pics”, what really upset me about this front page was that it seemed to be designed to put the actor back in her box. To make it clear that if she dared to stand up for anything more controversial than which brand of wand to use, then someone out there would make it their mission to attempt to humiliate and shame her. And it says everything about the minds of these people that they assume the most humiliating thing any woman can experience is public nudity. |
| Helen Lewis recently wrote about the under-representation of women online and the level of abuse they receive when they do put their head below the commenting line. She, quite rightly, argues that we need more female-dominated spaces online; forums and websites where women rule and any attempt to abuse or attack them is dealt with swiftly and harshly. But we also need greater respect for women across the rest of the internet. And, forgive me for stating the obvious, we also need a greater respect for what those women have to say. | Helen Lewis recently wrote about the under-representation of women online and the level of abuse they receive when they do put their head below the commenting line. She, quite rightly, argues that we need more female-dominated spaces online; forums and websites where women rule and any attempt to abuse or attack them is dealt with swiftly and harshly. But we also need greater respect for women across the rest of the internet. And, forgive me for stating the obvious, we also need a greater respect for what those women have to say. |
| Emma Watson did not talk to the UN about the need for equality because all forms of gender discrimination have been eradicated from our world. She spoke about it because every day, in every country, women face violence, abuse or just plain old ignorance. Rather than trying to humiliate her for reminding us all of these simple facts, we should stop, listen and join her in trying to change it. But here’s the funny thing. Much as we’ll cheer for the underdog in a sports match, in real life we don’t want them to defend themselves. | Emma Watson did not talk to the UN about the need for equality because all forms of gender discrimination have been eradicated from our world. She spoke about it because every day, in every country, women face violence, abuse or just plain old ignorance. Rather than trying to humiliate her for reminding us all of these simple facts, we should stop, listen and join her in trying to change it. But here’s the funny thing. Much as we’ll cheer for the underdog in a sports match, in real life we don’t want them to defend themselves. |
| A recent study at the University of Colorado–Boulder asked managers to mark their employees on a range of factors, including performance, competence and “diversity-valuing behaviour”. What it found was this: women or people of colour who scored highly for “diversity-valuing behaviour” scored less well on performance. This was not the case for white men. It seems we are psychologically inclined to see an attempt at creating diversity by white men as a good thing, while anyone else is a trouble-maker. | A recent study at the University of Colorado–Boulder asked managers to mark their employees on a range of factors, including performance, competence and “diversity-valuing behaviour”. What it found was this: women or people of colour who scored highly for “diversity-valuing behaviour” scored less well on performance. This was not the case for white men. It seems we are psychologically inclined to see an attempt at creating diversity by white men as a good thing, while anyone else is a trouble-maker. |
| If you’re a woman trying to stand up for other women’s rights, whether that’s in your office, online or at the UN, you instantly mark yourself out as someone who needs to brought back in line. For most of us, this won’t manifest itself in front page headlines screaming about naked photos but that doesn’t mean we’re let off. We might miss out on a promotion or have to deal with trolls and accusations of “women’s lib gone mad”. Slowly but surely, the person speaking out is battered and worn down until they can no longer remember why they started talking about this issue in the first place. | If you’re a woman trying to stand up for other women’s rights, whether that’s in your office, online or at the UN, you instantly mark yourself out as someone who needs to brought back in line. For most of us, this won’t manifest itself in front page headlines screaming about naked photos but that doesn’t mean we’re let off. We might miss out on a promotion or have to deal with trolls and accusations of “women’s lib gone mad”. Slowly but surely, the person speaking out is battered and worn down until they can no longer remember why they started talking about this issue in the first place. |
| How depressing to be silenced by a threat, to believe that each time you point out an injustice you just bring more harm to yourself. The only way we solve this is by being vocal in our condemnation of the people who try to tear others down. The rage I felt looking at my Twitter feed last night began to dissipate when I saw the response to the Star’s headline: how loudly women and men mocked it, how much disgust was thrown at the hackers who claimed to have stolen these photos. And how much support Watson gained for her campaign. She’d asked men to stand with her against female inequality and it was happening live. Those people who had tried to silence her had just helped her, and every other woman who’s ever spoken out against injustice, to shout a little louder. | How depressing to be silenced by a threat, to believe that each time you point out an injustice you just bring more harm to yourself. The only way we solve this is by being vocal in our condemnation of the people who try to tear others down. The rage I felt looking at my Twitter feed last night began to dissipate when I saw the response to the Star’s headline: how loudly women and men mocked it, how much disgust was thrown at the hackers who claimed to have stolen these photos. And how much support Watson gained for her campaign. She’d asked men to stand with her against female inequality and it was happening live. Those people who had tried to silence her had just helped her, and every other woman who’s ever spoken out against injustice, to shout a little louder. |
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