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HeForShe Campaign


I watched a speech about feminism. Emma Watson, British actor and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, co-hosted a special event for UN Women’s HeForShe campaign. The HeForShe campaign is a solidarity movement for gender equality which calls upon men and boys to help end the persisting inequalities faced by women and girls globally. Emma is saying ‘I am reaching out to you because we need your help.’ This sentence makes people curious about the speech. She said ‘We just don’t want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that is tangible.’ When I heard that sentence, I felt there is a problem that has to be changed.

Feminism is one of the most important issues today. In this speech video, I think men can easily think that Emma is trying to be on the side of women. According to Wikipedia, Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, personal, and social rights for women “Right for women”. If I have a chance to have a speech about this topic, I would say gender equality or sexual equality rather than feminism because in the definition of feminism, it says “rights for women” it is not what she meant. The speech does not advocate feminism or say women are greater than men. However, Emma is saying ‘It is not the word that is important. It’s the idea and the ambition behind it because all women don’t have women’s rights’. I kind of agree with that. A lot of women are suffering today. For example, especially, In Arab countries, women don’t have equal rights. They think men are the best. Emma uses some of her experiences to convince the audience. Also, I can see Emma is using pathos in this speech. It helps people to feel and think more about this problem.

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  1. AnonymousJune 1, 2016 at 6:01 AM

    This sounds complicated, but you did great job anaylizing the speech. You included details and I can understand easiler. Good job!

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  2. AnonymousJune 6, 2016 at 7:33 AM

    Feminism is a widely debated and controversial topic in today's society, so you did a good job differentiating between what society could interpret her speech to be establishing and what the speaker is in actuality trying to establish

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  3. AnonymousJune 6, 2016 at 10:29 AM

    Yes I agree that women should have more rights after I read this blog, this speech explained well with rhetoric ways. good job.

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