The 46-year-old actress pleaded for wage equality during her Oscars acceptance speech, saying, "It's our time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America"
Backstage, Arquette expanded on this topic.
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It’s time for us. It’s time for women. Equal means equal," she said. "It’s inexcusable that we go around the world and talk about equal rights for women in other countries when we don’t have equal rights for women in America. When they wrote the constitution, they didn’t intend it for women.
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"People think we have equal rights; we don’t. Until we pass a constitutional amendment, we won’t have anything changed. It’s time for all women in America and all the men who love women and all the gay people and people of color that we’ve all fought for to fight for us now."
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Arquette's comments made people on Twitter point out that many women are people of color and part of the LGBTQ community, and that by calling on these groups to "fight for us," Arquette minimized the experiences of non-white, non-straight women.
Patricia Arquette responded
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6734076.html