Emma Watson Has a Theory About Why Men Whine About Female Heroes in Films
There are many explanations men will give you about why some dudes were so upset that the latest Star Wars films had female leads or outraged that Ghostbusters was remade with an all-female cast. But Emma Watson has a deeper theory about why those fan boys can't cope with female heroes on screen that she explained to Marie Claire Australia in its May issue.
"It's something they're not used to, and they don't like that," she said. "Anything that deviates from the norm is difficult to accept. I think if you've been used to watching characters that look like, sound like, think like you, and then you see someone [unexpected] up on the screen, you go, 'Well, that's a girl, she doesn't look like me. I want it to look like me so that I can project myself onto the character.'"
Watson recognizes women don't seem to have that trouble. "Women are great about that," she quipped. "We see whoever is on screen and recognize the human qualities in the man that we relate to, and there's not such a gap. But for some reason, there's some kind of barrier there where [men] are like, 'I don't want to relate to a girl.' I think it is inherently part of the problem."
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