Kristen Stewart has a message for people who hate her Rolling Stone cover

Getting into the more serious side of things, Stewart called the backlash “a little ironic because I feel like I’ve seen a lot of male pubic hair on the cover of things.” “I’ve seen a lot of hands in pants and like, unbuttoned,” she continued. “I think there’s a certain overt acknowledgment of a female sexuality that has its own volition in a way that is annoying for people who are sexist and homophobic.”

“It’s not remotely explicit,” she added. “Female sexuality isn’t supposed to actually want anything but to be had. And that feels like it’s protruding in a way that might be annoying.”

Stewart has clearly thought about this a lot. In her most recent film, Love Lies Bleeding from director Rose Glass, the actor plays a stuck-in-a-rut gym owner who shares a number of sultry scenes with a vivacious bodybuilder (played by Katy O’Brian) that would probably piss conservatives off in a similar way were they to ever actually see it. (The film is playing in theaters now.) “It’s more like a power play, and an exchange and a particular physical response to touch and to verbiage that is so exacting that it feels real,” Stewart said of the direction behind the film’s sex scenes (via IndieWire). “It’s just that it’s so detail-oriented, like, the physicality, the orifice, the actual opening of a woman is acknowledged and talked about, and it’s not seen, but it is felt, and it is really fucking satisfying. Because that is so rare.”

Take that, right-wingers! Or as Stewart perfectly summarized on The Late Show, “fuck you… but I never will!”