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11/21/2024 10:20:05 pm

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Emma Watson Receives Threat from Internet Trolls Just After Speaking About Gender Equality

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Just a couple hours after Emma Watson delivered a very informative and inspirational speech about gender equality, internet trolls on 4chan posted a threat saying that the "Harry Potter" star would be the next victim of photo leakage.

4chan, now known as the infamous site in which nude celebrity photographs are leaked, had a web page entitled "Emma You Are Next". In the web page, a photograph of the actress is positioned beside a countdown.

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The countdown is set to end at at precisely midnight on Friday, September 26. The webpage also had a sentence that said, "never forget, the biggest to come thus far".

Emma Watson, who is a goodwill ambassador for UN Women, launched and spoke for the HeForShe campaign. The campaign urges men from all over to speak their mind about gender equality.

The actress, famous for her role as the smart and determined witch Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies voiced out how she felt when she started becoming sexualized by the media when she turned 14.

The "Noah" star also challenged gender stereotypes in her speech.

"I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was eight, I was confused about being called bossy because I wanted to direct plays we put on for our parents but the boys were not," she said.

She also mentioned that she noticed her female friends quitting their sports teams for the sole reason of them not wanting to look masculine because of the muscle definition they would gain if they remained playing the sport.

Watson expressed her gratitude for having "inadvertent feminist" parents as well, and said she was privileged to have grown up in that environment.

Watson addressed that men are victims of the inequality between genders as well. She brought up the issue of men being imprisoned because they fit a certain gender stereotype.

The A-list celebrity further explained what the campaign was all about.

"If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It's about freedom. I want men to take up this mantle."

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