Patricia Arquette: I wasn't talking about my position
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Given the content of your Oscar acceptance speech, did you fight for equal pay to your male counterparts on CSI?
I wasn’t talking about my own position. I’ve been really blessed in my life. What I was talking about is the other 52 percent, and how it doesn’t make sense why they’re being discriminated [against]. They’re taking the same student loans but taking years to pay it back, making half a million to a million dollars less over a lifetime. That’s money they’re not putting into Social Security, or using to pay for college or childcare. I won an award because I played a single mom, moving and moving again and trying to provide for her kids. I thought about how her life would have been better with wage equality, and if she made those extra cents on the dollar; and how if she was Latina, she’d need to make those fifty cents more, or how if she was African-American, she’d need to make those 40 cents more.
Did it surprise you that there was such a negative response to your speech and your backstage comments?
It did surprise me. I guess I don’t think people really understood what I meant by that. I don’t think they understood what I was talking about, exactly. This is a huge discrimination issue affecting women across America. It affects whole lives — the impact of this.
she may have worded it poorly but I don't think it was that hard to understand what she was getting at. People over-reacted and put words in her mouth.
I don't think she meant it in the way people assumed, but her wording was really bad. It made it sound like she was excluding women of color and gay women.
Why are people hating on her? She's a ****ing fantastic actress and she used a MAJOR platform to promote a great cause. People need to back the **** off, seriously
I don't think she meant it in the way people assumed, but her wording was really bad. It made it sound like she was excluding women of color and gay women.
I felt like she just wanted them to support the cause as well. Or rather include them.
I don't think she meant it in the way people assumed, but her wording was really bad. It made it sound like she was excluding women of color and gay women.
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She had good intentions, but this is one of those cases where you should either keep your mouth shut or really think about what you're saying... otherwise you look totally clueless.
She had good intentions, but this is one of those cases where you should either keep your mouth shut or really think about what you're saying... otherwise you look totally clueless.
This.
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Originally posted by Meowster
Because she was nervous as hell and had little time as possible? Plus didn't know if she was gonna win?
Or (to add on to what Vespertine said) don't try and fit an important speech into 30 seconds or less.
She had good intentions, but this is one of those cases where you should either keep your mouth shut or really think about what you're saying... otherwise you look totally clueless.
She had good intentions, but this is one of those cases where you should either keep your mouth shut or really think about what you're saying... otherwise you look totally clueless.
exactly. At that very moment, her words had great power, if she had any intentions of addressing these issues, she should have prepared herself.
I don't think she meant it in the way people assumed, but her wording was really bad. It made it sound like she was excluding women of color and gay women.
LOOOL those are the exact women she was defending, people were just bothered by that and played dumb.
I thought she was pretty clear, but I guess not.
