Emma Waston’s speech at the UN

Emma Waston’s speech at the UN

She speaks on behalf of women and feminists about gender equality. She expect (want) women to same right         and opportinuties as men/ their male counterparts.

She expect to be equal to men, be on an equal footing with men.

She expect people to stop discrimaniting against women.

Disrespectful, sexits and narrow-minded people mistake feminism and men-hating. She strongly disagrees with them and such silly prejudicies.

• Emma Watson is British actress famous for her part in Harry Potter. Sha was also appointed « goodwill ambassador for U.N  Women » in 2015, which means represents women/ she speaks on behalf of women she advocates for women’s rights
• She’s delivering a speech in front of/ she is addressing the United Nation General Assembly, especially men
• She fights for women’s rights and gender equality in other words, women should be given the same opportinuties and chances as men / their male counterparts / men and women should be equal/ on an equal footing / be treated the same / women shouldn’t be discriminated against.
• According to Emma Waston, some narrow-minded people often mistake feminism for man-hating. They have prejudicies against feminists and believe taht if you defend women’s rights, it means you hate men, which is ridiculous/ which doesn’t make any sence. She wishes is stopped right now.
• For example, she remembers that she was 8, she was called bossy because she wanted to direct a school party whereas the boys were not called so. Indeed, people condider that « proper » girls don’t (shouldn’t) direct/manage/rule / supervise a group. Actually, she denounces the fact that people expect girls to obey and submissive. Then, at 14, she was sexualized by the media. Later, , at 15, her girlfriends quit/ give up sports teams because they didn’t want to appear muscular. In our society, « real »/proper girls shouldn’t look « muscular » and are ot expected to practice physical and muscular sports, which are for boys. Finally, at 18, her male friends were unable to/ couldn’t express/ voice their feelings as it was not manly to do so. Indeed, men are expected to be strong and shouldn’t be emotional.
• In fact, she denounces the stereotypes associated to boys, girls and feminists that is to say the stereotyped vision of boys and girls in our society which is also called « gender stereotypes »
• That’s why, she expects mentalities to evolve and she expect women to earn as much as men/ their male counterparts. She espects women to make/ take their own decisions. She expects women to be involved in/ to take part in decision making in the country. She expects women to be respected as such as men/ be awarded the same respect as men. However, in some countries these rights are not granted.

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