May 20
Right now, someone somewhere — probably a woman — is doing feminism wrong. This is the overwhelming message that is being beamed everywhere. Robin Wright may be making public her demand for equal pay for her role in House of Cards, but that is all right for her; she is a white, privileged film star. “Has celebrity feminism failed?” asked Andi Zeisler this week, in her new book We Were Feminists Once, because God knows it’s a worry…
The assumption that any celebrity who says something vaguely feminist is somehow a hypocrite is ludicrous.
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