Patricia Arquette's Oscar Speech on Wage Inequality...

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Exactly. The sad fact is wage inequality is happening t every level.

Wage gap is a myth:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/01/no-women-don-t-make-less-money-than-men.html

Not it's not:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/08/3424043/gender-wage-gap-myth/

Think Progress vs Daily Beast (Newsweek). I'll take Daily Best.

Of course you will *snort*

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Anonymous wrote:I find it humorous to hear a speech on wage equality come from a person who makes millions.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had millions at a time when those millions would be billions now. He still spoke up for the 99.99% of Americans who needed help. Did you find that humorous too?

I find it humorous that she could have insisted on a much lesser salary and had the balance distributed amongst those who worked on the film. Speaking out seems to be what liberals do to make themselves seem more important and to make themselves feel better.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it humorous to hear a speech on wage equality come from a person who makes millions.

Are you under the impression that female actresses are paid equally to their male counterparts?

You might want to go back and look through some of the hacked Sony documents.

Actors whether male or female are paid for their box office draw. Patricia Arquette could never carry a film like Benedict Cumverbatch does and would be paid accordingly. That said, I don't think she was referring solely to Hollywood but to jobs where the difference between $80 an hour and $90 an hour is significant rather than the difference between $1 million for a film versus $1.2 million.

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I find it humorous that she could have insisted on a much lesser salary and had the balance distributed amongst those who worked on the film.

You are seriously overestimating her power twelve years ago when they started making Boyhood.

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Thigh gap is more important

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Or connection gap

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Anonymous wrote:She must have found out how Hollywood calculates profits on a film and doesn't like her split

Or she's fed up, as so many women are. Excited for the wage gap flip to happen!

Perhaps we can start at home, with our nannies. And not fire them the minute they reveal that they may have a baby some day. Or they need a sick day.

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Anonymous wrote:Emily Miller is getting beat up on Twitter over her comments about this.

What did she say?

Actualky, I was raised to think for myself and tell the truth. Feminist mind meld means sacrificing individual thought.
So you think it helps women to agree with whatever political nonsense Hollywood movie stars spew? Okay.

There is more here: https://twitter.com/EmilyMiller

Who IS this person? I guess I finally have to admit I'm getting old - I have no idea who any of these people are any more.

She works on FOX 5 in DC.

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I find it humorous that she could have insisted on a much lesser salary and had the balance distributed amongst those who worked on the film.

You are seriously overestimating her power twelve years ago when they started making Boyhood.

Please. Walk the walk.

The talking out of the Hollywood elite is hard to take. Just not grounded in reality at all, so to alleviate guilt, they 'take a stand'

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The problem with women is that many of you want SPECIAL privileges, not equal treatment. You want 6 months to a year PAID maternity leave, paid pumping breaks all day long, paid time off to take care of all your personal problems.

Equal pay, yes. Forget the rest because it isn't going to happen and I say this as a woman who has three children.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with women is that many of you want SPECIAL privileges, not equal treatment. You want 6 months to a year PAID maternity leave, paid pumping breaks all day long, paid time off to take care of all your personal problems.

Equal pay, yes. Forget the rest because it isn't going to happen and I say this as a woman who has three children.

+1 So true, unfortunately. If you need to take time off, do it, but don’t expect employers to foot the bill for it. If you want to work and have paid time off, find a job that provides leave as part of the package.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it humorous to hear a speech on wage equality come from a person who makes millions.

Are you under the impression that female actresses are paid equally to their male counterparts?

You might want to go back and look through some of the hacked Sony documents.

Actors whether male or female are paid for their box office draw. Patricia Arquette could never carry a film like Benedict Cumverbatch does and would be paid accordingly. That said, I don't think she was referring solely to Hollywood but to jobs where the difference between $80 an hour and $90 an hour is significant rather than the difference between $1 million for a film versus $1.2 million.

Give me a break. I'm not marching in the streets for people who make $80 an hour either.

I like Patricia Arquette, but the speech left me cold. I do not give a flying f*ck that Jennifer Lawrence isn't paid what her male co-stars are--it's a travesty that actors are paid that rate to begin with. Meanwhile, childcare worker wages aren't enough to survive on.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with women is that many of you want SPECIAL privileges, not equal treatment. You want 6 months to a year PAID maternity leave, paid pumping breaks all day long, paid time off to take care of all your personal problems.

Equal pay, yes. Forget the rest because it isn't going to happen and I say this as a woman who has three children.

Exactly. Well said.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it humorous to hear a speech on wage equality come from a person who makes millions.

Are you under the impression that female actresses are paid equally to their male counterparts?

You might want to go back and look through some of the hacked Sony documents.

Actors whether male or female are paid for their box office draw. Patricia Arquette could never carry a film like Benedict Cumverbatch does and would be paid accordingly. That said, I don't think she was referring solely to Hollywood but to jobs where the difference between $80 an hour and $90 an hour is significant rather than the difference between $1 million for a film versus $1.2 million.

No one is comparing Cumberbatch and Arquette. Again, people are allowing themselves to be distracted from the larger point.

In American Hustle, we have 2 female stars with more star power and box-office success than their male counterparts (FAR more, where Jeremy Renner is concerned). Yet the women were paid more than 20% less. So this isn't about star power or box-office success. It isn't about the number of hours worked. It's not about negotiating skill, since the actors aren't negotiating for themselves, but instead rely on attorneys, managers, etc.

Now, ask yourself, why is your reaction that Adams and Lawrence should be thankful they are making millions? Is it because the little women should be thankful they get whatever crumbs they are thrown?

Why is your reaction that they should have taken even LESS, so that lower-wage people below them could make more? And if that IS your reaction, why you aren't saying that Cooper, Bale, and Renner should have taken less so that the lower-wage people below them (ahem, including Adams and Lawrence) could make more?

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I know a nanny who got fired (by her "equal rights" screaming employer, no less) when she needed a sick day.

Odd how this happens. Women demand benefits for themselves, but refuse to extend similar "equal rights" for their own domestic workers.