She currently represents the UN’s campaign HeForShe, which is a movement to push forward gender equality; wanting men and boys to move together, and help end the social inequalities toward females. She addresses gender issued stereotypes, and gives her own personal experience on the matter. She starts off when she was“8, [She] was confused about being called ‘bossy’”. All because she wanted to take charge of school plays, so on and so forth, but if her male counter partner acted the same way he wasn’t labelled the same as her, but that wasn 't her only argument. She goes to say as she grew older the media stepped in and “[She] started to be sexualized”in certain aspects. As well as how her friends “dropped out of their beloved sports teams... didn 't want to appear ‘muscle-y’”. Her point is that who says woman can’t be strong, and it 's with this she transitions herself on why she is a feminist. Watson goes on how gender equality is achieved when women are paid equally, given equal social respect, and being allowed to contribute to policy making. And with this, it shall create a whole in our gender assigned ideologies, but no country in the world has made this possible yet. But away from the female perspective of feminism, she breaks down on how these stereotypes affect men as well. She brings up the fact how men are told to be aggressive, and to hide one’s emotions for it’s the idea of masculinity. Men, and boys are told from the beginning not to cry, for it’s a sign of weakness; it’s feminine. Overall, Watson wants to tear down the gender gap, and all the controversy that goes with
She currently represents the UN’s campaign HeForShe, which is a movement to push forward gender equality; wanting men and boys to move together, and help end the social inequalities toward females. She addresses gender issued stereotypes, and gives her own personal experience on the matter. She starts off when she was“8, [She] was confused about being called ‘bossy’”. All because she wanted to take charge of school plays, so on and so forth, but if her male counter partner acted the same way he wasn’t labelled the same as her, but that wasn 't her only argument. She goes to say as she grew older the media stepped in and “[She] started to be sexualized”in certain aspects. As well as how her friends “dropped out of their beloved sports teams... didn 't want to appear ‘muscle-y’”. Her point is that who says woman can’t be strong, and it 's with this she transitions herself on why she is a feminist. Watson goes on how gender equality is achieved when women are paid equally, given equal social respect, and being allowed to contribute to policy making. And with this, it shall create a whole in our gender assigned ideologies, but no country in the world has made this possible yet. But away from the female perspective of feminism, she breaks down on how these stereotypes affect men as well. She brings up the fact how men are told to be aggressive, and to hide one’s emotions for it’s the idea of masculinity. Men, and boys are told from the beginning not to cry, for it’s a sign of weakness; it’s feminine. Overall, Watson wants to tear down the gender gap, and all the controversy that goes with