This past Sunday was the yearly Oscars award show, featuring many stars dolled up, showing off their outfits, their date and a new addition this year: support. In November 2017, allegations and stories arose about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation throughout his Hollywood career. This ended up revealing the dirt behind a number of producers, stars, and directors in Hollywood and their inappropriate actions toward colleagues. This resulted in the establishment of the Time’s Up movement, an attempt to bring light to sexual harassment and give courage to those affected to speak up.

Emma Watson is an avid supporter of the Time’s Up movement. She has been vocal with support and love toward victims and even donated a good amount to the effort. At this year’s Golden Globes, she joined other nominees and attendees wearing black to spread awareness of the Time’s Up movement.

This weekend at the Oscars, Watson sported a noticeable, would-be-classy tattoo on her lower arm that said “Times Up.” The only issue? Watson received endless rude and unnecessary backlash from Fox News and Twitter. Comments toward the star were aimed at her Brown University Graduation status as an English Major, attempting to insult the feminist icon’s intelligence. Emma Watson unsurprisingly came back with dignified humor, addressing the incident as she tweeted “Fake Tattoo proofreading position available. Experience with apostrophes a must.” Watson’s tattoo has been identified as a fake.

Watson has not only been an actress full of grace through her career, but a role model for girls of all ages. Watson renders a character of kindness, class and self-strength, all in support of her fellow actresses and women.

She intended to wear support of the Time’s Up movement with the arm ink. Instead of vocalizing the movement and what she was standing for, Fox News took a shot at her in attempt to invalidate her as a feminist icon and Brown Graduate. However, Watson met the petty backlash with more nimble humor, shaking off the attack on her credibility without missing a beat. On top of that, Fox’s attempt to focus on Watson’s mistake did not take much attention away from the Time’s Up movement. In fact, it almost attracted more notice by highlighting the tattoo.  

It is disappointing that the media find it “important” to drag celebrities who are fighting for what they believe. We should not be focusing on petty mistakes like missing apostrophes, but instead on the bigger picture: the meaning behind the tattoo. It is almost perfect irony that Fox’s report on the tattoo’s grammatical error failed to bring an aggressive response from the star and resulted in the frequent search for “Time’s Up.”

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