London, Sept 24 : Feminists have rallied for Emma Watson after hackers threatened to leak her nude snaps in response to her feminism speech at the United Nations.

PolicyMic senior editor Elizabeth Plank said that the 24-year-old actress, who gave a speech on gender equality to launch the HeForShe campaign, like so many other women online, is being silenced and kept in her place with misogyny as a weapon, the Guardian reported.

Maya Dusenbery, executive director of Feministing, wrote so go ahead and add this response to Watson's argument for why we need feminism as misogynists do have a tendency of proving their point.

The 'Harry Porter' star's speech and the HeForShe campaign, have received support from celebrities including comedian Simon Pegg, author Neil Gaiman and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who is working on a film project asking people to define what feminism means to them.

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett wrote a letter to Watson asking her to "fuck them," as it makes her furious that these men, these boys, are attempting to grind her down, in the same way that similar men have tirelessly attempted to grind down the emergence of female gender as a viable political threat for generations now.

However, commenters on Reddit claimed that this is a "masterwork of trolling," while 4chan users said that this was an elaborate "false flag" by the government to turn public opinion against internet freedom. (ANI)