{"id":1632,"date":"2009-05-21T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2009-05-21T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T11:57:11","slug":"the-objectification-of-emma-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/05\/21\/the-objectification-of-emma-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Objectification of Emma Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A post Marco wrote the other week over at Open Salon got primo real estate on the front page of Salon, but I’m just getting to it now.\u00c2\u00a0 In his May 7 post, “The Objectification of Emma Watson,”<\/a> Marco takes issue with the sexification of the actress who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies.\u00c2\u00a0 He writes:<\/p>\n

Over and over the ritual is reenacted: Lisa Bonet, Drew Barrymore, Alyssa Milano, Scarlett Johansson. Early raves for a child’s or precociously young actor’s emotional range or resonance, then the steady drumbeat of questionable roles and\/or increasingly suggestive magazine covers. Occasionally an actor navigates her sexuality with depth and an almost tactical creativity, as did Christina Ricci; she made smart choices so that her sexualized image always functioned as a shorthand for her unusual and challenging roles. But more typically, an uncompromising talent\u00c2\u00a0(i.e. Parker Posey)\u00c2\u00a0will fall by the wayside to be appreciated by ever smaller audiences for her efforts if she doesn’t “fall into line.” <\/em><\/p>\n

It’s not too late for Watson, though. Interview <\/span>is offbeat enough to be a blip in an actor’s career, and this issue is early enough in the season to be a vague memory by the time the next Potter is released. But the choices she makes now and in the immediate wake of the Potter series may very well determine whether she will be ultimately be known for her body of work, or just, well, her (toned\/decrepit\/buffed\/doubled\/ Photoshopped\/objectified) body. <\/em><\/p>\n

Nicely put, dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A post Marco wrote the other week over at Open Salon got primo real estate on the front page of Salon, but I’m just getting to it now.\u00c2\u00a0 In his May 7 post, “The Objectification of Emma Watson,” Marco takes issue with the sexification of the actress who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21395,5007,176],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-girls","tag-pop-culture","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}