Crush is besotted with Muggle humanitarian Emma Watson. Now she’s all grown up and a UN Goodwill Ambassador with a power-dressing wardrobe that even Claire Underwood from House of Cards would covet, we’re ready to ride feminism’s fourth wave together. Last week Watson took to Twitter to inspire the world with her #heforshe campaign wisdom.
When one fan asked: ‘My dad says I can’t be an engineer because it’s a “man’s profession”, what do I do to change that?’ Watson answered: ‘Become an engineer.’ When another asked: ‘Any tips for teenage girls with parents who think they should aspire to marry and have kids, rather than have a successful career?’
‘Why not have both?’ came the response, and women everywhere reached for the hand-clap emoji. But Crush can’t help feeling that some of Emma’s new admirers haven’t always been so loyal: weren’t you the ones who called her wand-wielding ‘wooden’ in Harry Potter, and shouted ‘Three points for Gryffindor!’ every time she spoke up in philosophy class at Brown University?
Once she’d nailed a Burberry campaign and The Bling Ring, Crush felt confident in exclaiming, ‘Bam! In your face, haters.’ And if anyone dared doubt our commitment, we need only to refer them to the copy of The Perks of Being a Wallflower we own on DVD. So, were Valentine’s Day less of a patriarchal capitalist hegemony (or something), we might expect Watson to acknowledge our years of devotion and send us a bunch of roses already. #youforme?
