Emma Watson Sets the Record Straight on Her Supposed Shade With Beyonce

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Emma Watson’s fierce Vanity Fair photo quickly sparked unwarranted debate on whether she has been true to her feminist rhetoric. Of course, she fired back saying that feminism is about a choice — “I don’t really know what my tits have to do with it,” she said.

Before she knew it, critics tried to show her as a hypocrite by digging into old interviews, particularly one when she references Beyonce in a 2014 interview: “As I was watching [the videos from Beyonce’s self-titled album] I felt very conflicted,” she said to Wonderland. “I felt her message felt very conflicted in the sense that on the one hand she is putting herself in a category of a feminist, but then the camera, it felt very male, such a male voyeuristic experience of her.”

So, Emma posted a pic on Instagram showing the whole context of the interview. “This is the part of my 2014 interview with Tavi [Gevinson] where we talked about Beyonce. My words are in bold…”

“[Beyoncé] does make it clear that she is performing for him,” part of the bolded text read, where critics clearly missed. “And the fact she wasn’t doing it for a label, she was doing it for herself and the control that she has directing it and putting it out there, I agree is making her sexuality empowering because it is her choice… The second is that I would say you do get sense of, ‘I can be a feminist, I can be an intellectual, I can be all these other things, but I can also be ok with my femininity and being pretty and with all these things that I thought might negate my message or negate what I am about’. That really is the most interesting thing about the album. It is so inclusive and puts feminism and femininity and female empowerment on such a broad spectrum.”

There you have it, folks. Emma is one consistent feminist.