Why women like Patricia Arquette continue to whitewash Feminism.

[DanTex]

229. Food for thought. You know, I like and respect your posts here a lot. Still not sure I'm

entirely with you here.

I really don't think Patricia Arquette is the bad guy here, and I don't like that she's being painted as such. I'm not going to defend her backstage comments, I think she would probably agree that they were at the very least poorly worded. But then, I think back to dumb or poorly worded things I've said in my life.

It seems to me that she was just trying to passionately advocate for women's equality. And I'm pretty sure she's on the right side of the gay and minority rights issues also. The thing is, there are enough people, even on DU, who push the whole "wage gap is a myth" line, not to mention "there's no such thing as white privilege" and so on. I mean, we even have a "Men's Group", for eff's sake.

So I think it's unfair, and also counterproductive, to paint Arquette as the "white woman who only cares about white women." She's a white woman who cares about women's issues, and probably cares about other victims of discrimination too, but also probably is more sensitive to the issues that affect her personally, which is a human failing, but can come off as dismissive towards the problems that are faced by others.

I don't disagree with much of your post, and am not minimizing the issues you bring up. There is a tendency on the left to make the perfect the enemy of the good, and I think some of that is happening here.

But maybe I'm wrong.