Yaass drag him and his pointless quote He should've kept his pretty mouth shut.

I get/agree with the gist of what she's saying, but the last part of the quote is unneeded and in poor taste.

Well, I agree with what she's saying. But on the other hand, she is a woman and has a long and successful career in acting so

But that's the point that so many people criticizing comments like this are completely missing. Saying this to a man doesn't have the same kind of connotation as saying this to a woman. Men in Hollywood (and particularly straight white men in general) do not statistically as a population have a history of being treated as less than in the workplace/politics/Hollywood/society in general.So many people seem to have a very backwards idea of what a struggle for equality is. Implying that if it's okay to say something like this to a man, then women should be ok with it being said to them is a cop out that absolutely misses the point that women have historically been far more repressed, sexually exploited, or mistreated than men for years and years. I'm not even a modern "SJW" by any means, but the argument that comes back with "Well, if women/minorities/gays want equality, they should all stop whining and just live life like the rest of the world and it will fall into place" is ********. If that tactic -- whether you are a women or a racial minority or gay -- worked so well, women would be paid the same as men today and there would be far less racially- or sexuality-fueled violence as there is. People in these groups say things like this and get angry for a reason.

SES is definitely a huge determinant in privilege, but to say that it is the overarching one is just not true. You can live in a non-metropolitan area in the southern US for a while and see how some people still hate and mistreat others just because they are black or are women -- independent of how much money they have or where they are in society. Just because it's not something you are exposed to every day does not mean these discriminatory biases aren't still alive and well in the world.

I agree with every last word she said. Though Kit is ALSO right with his statements, he really doesn't have anything worth complaining about in the grand scheme of things. His problem is equivalent to a "first world problem" when it comes to the state of literally every other actor in the industry.

Actually, there are loads of Asian countries that idealize the european standard of beauty over anyone or anything slightly darker (even their own kind in some cases).

So a rich white men and a rich black men would be treated equally in America?


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