Month: February 2015

Patricia Arquette calls for wage equality for women at Oscars, but then provokes controversy with racial insensitivity.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/oscars/oscars-2015-patricia-arquette-faces-backlash-over-comments-calling-for-people-of-colour-to-fight-for-women-20150224-13msml.html

"White Ribbon" ambassador outed as an apologist for male violence, claiming rising violence attributable to male loss of power.

http://theconversation.com/disempowered-men-still-lead-on-economic-power-37576
I”. . .he is, in some important respects, right. Men are losing power in a world where women have gained formal equality. Ahmed is certainly not the first to suggest that some are “evening the score”, in crude terms, in their private lives. An analogous argument has been made by “radical feminists” regarding the exponential rise of the global sex industry.
Where Ahmed falls drastically short is in naming that the power being lost was not a legitimate power in the first place – any more than whites having power over blacks or gay couples not being “allowed” to marry was legitimate. This unearned privilege was and is part of a system of social, political and economic control that feminism as a movement for women’s equality has sought to name, critique and dismantle.”