The Problem With Making Celebrities Like Patricia Arquette The Face Of Feminism — thinkprogress.org

by Tara Culp-Ressler Posted on February 23, 2015 at 1:59 pm "The Problem With Making Celebrities Like Patricia Arquette The Face Of Feminism" Patricia Arquette poses in the press room with the award for best actress in a supporting role After using her Oscars acceptance speech to advocate for closing the gender wage gap, actress Patricia Arquette was widely celebrated as one of the best parts of an otherwise fairly boring Academy Awards ceremony. Her speech — in which she said that “it is our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America” — was hailed as “badass.”

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