Emma Watson, British actress and women’s rights activist, is urging women to vote in the U.S. “You have real power to decide the future of generations to come,” Watson said in a post on Twitter.
Watson said that she wishes that she could cast a vote. “It has been excruciating to sit on the sidelines in the months leading up the election.”
Watson has spoken on numerous college campuses about women’s rights, sexual assault and gender equality. She made an indirect reference to Donald Trump and his comments on women. “In 2014, I tweeted Desmond Tutu’s quote: “Men and boys, we show our manhood by how we treat our women.” The American men I know and love know this. They know that the way a man treats women can’t be overlooked or brushed aside.”
She also quoted “Sex and World Peace” by Valerie Hudson, “We know one of the most reliable indicators of peae and prosperity, nationally and globally, is not a country’s level of wealth, democracy, or ethno-religious identity; but how well its women and girls are treated.” She goes on to argue that the president of the U.S. will be able to make decisions about women – about their bodies, their rights, and how they are treated on campuses and in the workplace.
“These decisions will affect whether we believe equality is an idea that matters.”
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