"It’s time for all the women in America and all the men that love women and all the gay people and all of the people of color that we’ve all fought for to all fight for us now."

wocinsolidarity:

girlebony:

If you haven’t already, you will see many websites telling you howamazing, badass and feminist Patricia Arquette’s speech was.

People are overlooking the “we’ve fought for everyone else line” that was nicely placed in there. But she was kind enough to expound on it backstage.

"It’s time for all the women in America and all the men that love women and all the gay people and all of the people of color that we’ve all fought for to all fight for us now." [@2:24 above]

Are there not gay women and women of color? If “we’ve fought for” “them”, then what of the women that overlap in those groups? What of the women of color and transwomen dying on the streets for simply existing? Is the fight over for them?

How about when we look at the wage gap itself, Black, Latina, Native and APIA women are still not making as much as white women. So, again, is the fight over?

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Apparently white women’s participation in the fight for equality is running up a tab, folks!

The biggest issue of all, though, is the assumption that people of color, LGBTQ folks and others weren’t already fighting for women’s rights. Like we’re all sitting on the sidelines while white women save us and not pitching in. Despite the pay gap still favoring white women over women of color, white women remain the biggest recipients of affirmative action. So forgive me if I don’t give a shit if Patricia Arquette doesn’t make as much as Tom Hanks. From where I’m standing if white women have saved the rest of us, they’ve done a shitty job at it.

mind you the pay gap also favors white women over many men of color as well