Why women like Patricia Arquette continue to whitewash Feminism.

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125. I've tried to stay out of this (the race issue), I really have but...

The feminist movement has not always been welcoming to white lesbians either but that doesn't make ME any less a feminist. It just means I disagree with some of the overall movements practices and will never donate to NOW. I think DU is a good example of how feminism isn't all inclusive...just look back at the great feminist war of 2012 (or whenever it was). I get intersectionality... I was one of the feminists who advocated for a group specific to it.

As far as race is concerned and being told what to do, I was at the Justice for All March this past fall in DC and I was told from the stage that I, as a white person, needed to join this battle if I cared about how fellow human beings are treated. Should I have been offended because a black man told me what to do? Or is it different because I'm white? Should that difference be put aside because I also happen to be lesbian?

Women of all colors die every day because we are seen as less than equal in the eyes of some people (mostly men--of all colors). Women have been on the frontline's of the national fight for equality in all matters of inequality and we've yet to have a serious national discussion about how women are treated as we watch the Republicans attempt to strip rights from us on an almost daily basis. They are the enemy, not Patricia Arquette because she wasn't as articulate as some of us would want her to be.

I, for one, would be more interested in hearing further thoughts from her because after just winning the biggest award someone in her field can win isn't a good time to judge that person on their true thoughts and feelings on the subject. Nor can we truly extrapolate her theories on the subject from two sound bites. Maybe allowing her the time to further expound upon her thoughts on the subject, I'll walk away and say, "Yeah, what an idiot!" or I'll have a better idea of where she's coming from. I mean, if we still continued to judge the LGBT community based on Dykes on Bikes and Leathermen, we'd still be where we were 30 years ago.