Academy-Award winning British actress Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks, Sense and Sensibility) doesn’t get why younger women are rejecting the label of feminist.
During a Sept. 2 interview with Variety about her new film A Walk in the Woods, the self-described “radical feminist” complained that she found the reluctance for young actresses to embrace the title of “feminist” simply, “bizarre.”
Thompson then astutely surmised the reason must be because these women don’t want to be treated equally.
“I’ve been a card-carrying, radical feminist since I was 19,” Thompson told Variety. “Most women who I would want to listen to wouldn’t have any problem at all with the word feminist,” she said.
“It’s bizarre” she continued. “Any woman who says they’re not a feminist is basically saying that they don’t believe in equal rights for women,” Thompson opined. [emphasis added]
Who does Thompson blame for this rise of women rejecting feminism? “The right,” of course. (Because they have so much influence in Hollywood.)
VARIETY: To Thompson, that means the right has effectively demonized the notion of feminism, and she thinks that sort of pernicious influence can be found everywhere in the sorts of messages that society sends to women.
The fact that the actress had to reach across the aisle and blame ‘the right’ for this trend isn’t surprising but it is humorous how aloof she is to the wonky messages from the left that feminists try to force-feed young women. Just a guess, but maybe things like armpit hair dying, “free bleeding” and “free the nipple” are just a tad, (to borrow her word), “bizarre,” for most women’s sensibilities.
