We’ve updated our gallery with screen captures of interviews Emma did in 2002! That’s when she was promoting the 2nd Harry Potter movie, titled “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”. The quality of all of these is just as bad as the ones from 2001, because the videos are so old. It will improve as we go through the years, so please bear with us. We figured they were still worth adding!
Hey guys! In the absence of anything new to post on our fansite, I’ve decided to make screen captures of some old videos. Our gallery has had a “Screen Captures” category since we relaunched it years ago, but none of us had had anytime to work on it until now. I’m thinking of going year by year, so I started with videos from 2001, when Emma was promoting “Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone” with Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.
In the first part of this conversation (read here), Emma and author Eve Ensler discussed the difficulties of bringing The Vagina Monologues to publication and the activism it helped create. In the 2nd part, she speaks to author and activist Eve about the dangers of patriarchy, women’s rights to choice, and her harrowing trips to Bosnia and Croatia to meet survivors of wartime rape camps.
PART 2. “There’s a profound emergency in America.”
Emma Watson: Are things changing with regards to the patriarchy?
Eve Ensler: I think what is sad is that the men in power still don’t understand that the liberation of women is their liberation as well, because they’re still hungering for domination. I think that desire for domination, that predatory mind-set, is destroying our world in every respect. Whether it’s immigrants who are being denied entry after the U.S. bombed their countries, whether it’s the greed of extraction of oil which devastates the earth, whether it’s women’s bodies endlessly raped and abused and denied reproductive rights – there’s such a predatory mind-set at present. I think the younger generation were born with so many of the Rights that my generation didn’t have, so they naturally took them for granted. Now when those rights are under siege, suddenly people are waking up and realizing, ” We have to resist. We have to fight.”