4chan to Emma Watson: You speak out on gender equality, we release nude photos

[geardaddy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/4chan-responds-to-emma-watsons-feminist-speech-at-un-with-photo-countdown-clock/
Over the weekend, Harry Potter actress Emma Watson delivered an impassioned speech aimed at ending gender inequality — to which online hacking group 4chan responded by creating a site called “Emma You Are Next,” which alleges to count down the time until a 4chan user will release nude photographs of her.

Shortly after her graduation from Brown University, Watson was named UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. Her speech on Saturday marked the first time she spoke to the assembly as a whole, and she did so on behalf of the HeForShe campaign.

HeForShe is an effort, in her words, to “try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality. And we don’t just want to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible.”


“The more I have spoken about feminism, the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with ‘man-hating,’” Watson said. “If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop. For the record, feminism, by definition, is ‘the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.’”

More at link.

What fuckers!

[seabeyond]

3. no. my children were never hateful. something happens with a child,

if they are sittin in hate.

nothing childish about this at all. even in the best of tantrum.

[seabeyond]

2. ah, and then there is the sexual threat, really only about degrade, humiliate.

weapon of choice for too many men.

yet, we are the porblem? nt

[malthaussen]

5. I wonder what would happen to the haters...

... if our society learned to stop stigmatizing sex and nudity. Oh, no doubt they'd find something else to pick on.

-- Mal

[shenmue]

6. Yeah

People like that are really messed up.

[seabeyond]

7. they haters need it and society as a whole, to keep women in their place, cause...

all the rest has fallen alongside the road still work to be done. but the constant effort and means in degrading and humiliating women is don for purpose.

our view on sex and nudity means nothing. cause like with rape.... it is about dominate control, thru humiliation and degradation we can see the effort in the porn today.
it is done with purpose.

[malthaussen]

9. Something in our society confuses obnoxiousness with strength.

Me, I'm baffled why young men would create role models out of males who so obviously have no manhood... the only conclusion I can reach is that we confuse sound and fury with true strength. Even though the latter is almost always quiet and confident, not hysterical.

-- Mal

[seabeyond]

10. look at what society gives to men, as manhood at least the last decade and half.

these are what our boys are growing up on, these are what our men are being fed.

there is NO surprise in this. i would like us to get beyond the surprise. we see it in every facet of our society in all ways

humiliate and degrade a womans sexuality. at all cost. in every way.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. I'd take it a lot further back than the last 15 years.

American cultural messages about gender roles have been poisonous, pathological and crippling to people of both sexes for generations. Men have been taught, propagandized, coerced and beaten into numbmess for their own pain.

"Suck it up," the coach yells when a 10 year-old football player shows pain. "Don't be a pussy." Double message--It's "girlish" to feel pain, and girls are lesser beings, not to be emulated.

A boy who has been numbed to his own pain makes a better soldier because he is numbed also to the pain of others; thus his capacity for empathy and compassion is diminished at the source.

We, the human species, could be so much more.

[seabeyond]

19. i think we were heading in the right direction as we progressed in 70's but really 80's,

then i think the later 90's we started feeling the backlash.

the reason i really say a decade and a half, is because with the net, and the inumdation of the porn, we opened the world up in a mass experiment.

i think, that is the escalation of all this.

the net has had a profound effect on who we are as people, literally.

[Jackpine Radical]

22. I don't know about specific dates, but think that we were progressing

on a broad range of issues as a culture from the time of the New Deal until sometime between Nixon and Reagan, depending on which particular aspects of the general trend we ware talking about.

My wife would take it back to the JFK Assassination, which she sees as the moment the overthrow of elected government in the US succeeded.

And I think we must acknowledge that there were serpents as well in the post-Rooseveltian Garden. The CIA, the Cold War, Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar, (as far as I'm concerned) Poppy Bush, many others.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Heinous.

[riqster]

11. Christ on a fucking raft. These scum need to be jailed.

Fucking terrorist bastards. Lock them up and throw away the Goddamned key.

[fbc]

12. 4chan is an online hacking group now?

Business Insider is claiming that the site is merely another 4chan hoax, “a prank designed to increase the notoriety of [the] anonymous message board…In the past, 4chan users have tried to convince people to microwave their iPhones, break their Xbox consoles, #EndFathersDay and self-harm for Justin Bieber.”

That sounds more likely.

Anonymous, often portrayed as heroes on this forum, came from 4chan.

[jeff47]

13. 4chan is as much of a hacking group as DU. (nt)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. ... lol ... exactly

thanks, I needed that.

[Efilroft Sul]

16. These assholes are bluffing.

If they had the "goods" on this wonderful young woman, they would've released the photos already and celebrated the "coup."

I'm betting they got nothing.

[Dr. Strange]

18. Exactly.

That should have been clue #1 that this whole thing was a hoax.

[seabeyond]

20. it does not matter if it is a bluff or not. watson should not have to endure a bluff or follow thru

that simple. the only issue.

[mckara]

17. Her Message is More Important than Their Threat!

She shouldn't be deterred by threats from scumbags! What is the taboo about seeing a woman's body? Women were god's/gods' most beautiful creation. Women are a work of art. Seeing a nude woman/man shouldn't have a stigma attached to it.

[seabeyond]

21. the taboo is she did NOT give CONSENT. it is her choice. period. the end. whatever you or anyone

else thinks of the womans form