NAGBIGAY ang aktres at United Nations Goodwill Ambassador na si Emma Watson ng mahusay na speech sa gender equality sa U.N. noong Sabado, na tumulong sa paglulunsad ng bago niyang inisyatiba, ang HeForShe.

Hinihikayat ng kampanya ang kalalakihan na manindigan laban sa anumang uri ng inequality. Ang talumpati ng Harry Potter at Bling Ring star ay dinaluhan nina Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, at marami pang iba, ayon sa E! Online ports.

Naroon din sina United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, na ginunita ang pinasikat na Hermione character ni Emma habang pinupuri ang mga pagsisikap ng aktres na maisulong ang kampanya sa pagkakapantay-pantay.

“She's been using her magic wand in her movie. I hope she will use [her] magic wand to stop violence against women,” iniulat ng E! Online na sinabi ni Ban.

Tinalakay ng talumpati ang maraming usapin, kabilang na ang kalituhan sa salitang feminism.

“I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for U.N. Women six months ago and the more I've spoken about feminism, the more I have realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.”

“Feminism,” pagpapatuloy ni Emma, “is, by definition, the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.”

Nagsalita rin si Emma tungkol sa women “[who] are choosing not to identify as feminists” at ang apparent toxicity ng salita. Puna niya, “Apparently, I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, ‘too aggressive’, isolating and anti-men, unattractive, even. Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?”

Sinikap na mahimok ang kalalakihan sa kanyang kampanya, nagsalita si Emma kung paanong ang gender inequality ay maaaring magkaroon ng negatibong epekto sa kalalakihan gaya ng sa kababaihan.

“Gender equality is your issue too. Because to date, I've seen my father's role as a parent being valued less by society despite my needing his presence, as a child, as much as my mother's. I've seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a men—or less of a man. In fact, in the U.K., suicide is the biggest killer of men, between 20 to 49, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don't have the benefits of equality, either.”

Inamin ni Emma na maaaring magtaka ang ilang makaririnig sa kanyang talumpati, “Who is this Harry Potter girl? What is she doing at the U.N.?”

“It's a really good question,” ani Emma. “I've been asking myself at the same thing. All I know is that I care about this problem and I want to make it better. And having seen what I've seen and given the chance, I feel my responsibility to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said all that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.” - Yahoo Celebrity