Emma Watson got a lot of buzz for her speech on gender equality at the United Nations on September 20, but at least one fellow female star wasn’t all that impressed. “Game of Thrones” actress Maisie Williams told The Guardian recently that she thought Watson’s remarks took kind of a narrow view on feminism.
“We talk about actor Emma Watson’s recent U.N. speech, in which she talked about her reasons for becoming a feminist, and the need for men to be onside; Williams says she is impatient with this kind of ‘first-world feminism,’” Guardian writer Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett wrote of the 17-year-old Brit.
“A lot of what Emma Watson spoke about, I just think, ‘That doesn’t bother me,’” Williams told the paper. “I know things aren’t perfect for women in the UK and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.”
Williams doesn’t necessarily disagree with any of those arguments but thinks there are other priorities.