Dumb Actress: Non-Feminists Don't Believe in Equal Rights for Women

danjoseph | September 3, 2015
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Academy Award winning actress, Emma Thompson has a message for all of you women out there who don't consider yourselves "feminists." 

You hate women!  

That's right, all you self-loathing conformists. According to Thompson:

“Most women who I would want to listen to wouldn’t have any problem at all with the word feminist. It’s bizarre. Any woman who says they’re not a feminist is basically saying that they don’t believe in equal rights for women.”

And you LOVE IT!

Not only are you "bizarre," but you don't even want equal rights. You want to go back to the days when only the men voted and you were relegated to the kitchen, barefoot, pregnant and making pot roast for when your husband got home from a long day at the steel mill. 

Thompson claims that she's been a  "...card-carrying, radical feminist" since she was nineteen.  Apparently, you need a form of ID to prove your feminist credentials.  They probably make you show it before you can get into an Indigo Girls concert.  

Thompson is disappointed that young many young Hollywood actresses won't respond in the affirmative when asked if they are feminists.

And what's behind the reluctance of these young starlet's to attach an arbitrary label to themselves in order to gain the respect of  other actresses who passed their prime during the Clinton Administration?

Why, conservatives, of course.  Duh!

According to the interview posted on the entertainment website "Devour," Thompson believes that  "[T]he 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."

She especially sees this influence in the way in which women view their own bodies.

“Any woman who says, ‘I hate my bum, I hate my body,’ is essentially expressing a kind of misogyny,” said Thompson.

Of course, the way women are depicted in Hollywood couldn't possibly have anything to do with that mindset. If it were up to casting directors and film producers, looks wouldn't matter at all and Melissa McCarthy would be the worlds biggest box office draw. (No pun intended.)

But, conservatives obviously run Hollywood and are responsible for this new trend of young actresses rejecting terms like feminism in favor of not being defined by a term that hasn't been relevant since the late 1970s.

They just don't want their "equal rights."

Of course, feminists love their equal rights!  This probably explains why women like Thompson never hesitate to exercise their right to make completely asinine statements in which they inform women as to how they should think.

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