Why women like Patricia Arquette continue to whitewash Feminism.

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101. Doesn't mean that Meryl Streep cannot have tremendous empathy and compassion for women

whose children do go to bed hungry for lack of money.

Empathy and compassion are traits that make actors and actresses great. Not all actors and actresses are capable of empathy and compassion, but the greatest ones are. That's why we love them.

Civil rights would not be have progressed even as far as they have (and they have not progressed far enough) were it not for the fact that people who do enjoy civil rights without a struggle feel empathy and compassion and solidarity for those who do not enjoy those rights.

That is why it is so ugly to pick apart the language of someone who is speaking up for civil rights. You cannot have civil rights for this group but not have it for that group. When I as a white person can vote but my neighbor because of his or her color or gender or sexual preference cannot vote or enjoy some other right that I enjoy, then my right is diminished in value.

Theoretically, the 14th and 15th Amendments to our Constitution awarded equal rights including the right to vote to African-Americans long before women had even the right to vote. The reality was of course that to this day the right of people of color to vote is threatened. Still the fact remains that the rights of men of color were historically viewed recognized before those of women regardless of race or ethnicity.