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Sun Aug 3, 2014, 10:01 PM Aug 2014

Emma Watson is the bomb.

Emma Watson Protests Turkish Politician With Laughing Photo

Emma Watson joined the online protest of a Turkish politician who said women should not laugh in public by tweeting a photo of herself chuckling in the street.

Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc was giving a speech to mark the end of Ramadan earlier this week when he told the crowd, “A woman should be chaste. She should know the difference between public and private. She should not laugh in public.”

Thousands of Turkish women took to Twitter to post selfies of themselves laughing with the hashtags, ?#direnkahkaha (resist laughter) and #direnkadin (resist woman) as an act of defiance.

Watson, who is a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, joined the group by sharing her own photo laughing photo.

http://www.gossipcop.com/emma-watson-laughing-photo-turkish-protest-pic/

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Emma Watson is the bomb. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Aug 2014 OP
Rec! progressoid Aug 2014 #1
Love, Peace and the Righteous Fight. eom littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #2
Don't Dick around with Hermione Granger, Bulent Wolf Frankula Aug 2014 #3
And then she can go back in time and do it again--and again, and again! nt tblue37 Aug 2014 #4
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