No, I realize that, but I just disagree completely with the premise because it’s not a good comparison. Something about it just doesn’t sit well with me. Like, are women who are famous or influential not allowed to talk about stuff anymore because it may somehow hurt poor women going through the same thing? Or is it…

Include some all caps rage, a Beyonce reference and a story about being sensitive about your weight and you could be going places.

Hey anything but unionizing, am I right America? If you can’t get a better salary, then there must be something you’re doing wrong. Don’t think about the company. Just do better in a rigged game!

THIS. Men are offered a higher salary than women to start with, before any negotiating happens at all. Women who do negotiate tend to be penalized for being “pushy” or “bossy” and so on.

“The solution is that women need to negotiate better” is the troublesome part of this narrative. I don’t blame these actresses for…

They also are the ones with (obvious) platforms.

Making it part of the conversation might help normalize it, and inspire women to start speaking up for themselves in whichever industry or career they happen to be in.

You are. Apparently you must start at the absolute bottom of the privilege scale, or your efforts aren’ valid. In general though, women’s efforts aren’t valid.

Susan Sarandon gets paid a shit-ton of money. Ergo, she should just sit down, shut up, and accept that she gets paid significantly less than fellow male actors, so as to not offend the poors.

I disagree with equating actresses pushing for equal pay as a step that will help working women get equal pay. But, actresses speaking up addresses the misogynistic culture of the entertainment industry. That is a real problem that needs to be addressed.

You keep using trickle down like you know what it means. Susan Sarandon is not the government; she is an actress. She’s not obligated to speak on anyone else’s behalf. Her speaking is not preventing low income women from speaking.

The question about valuing Lawrence’s work was quasi-rhetorical, but the answer is obvious: nothing. Lawrence’s value says absolutely nothing about how we value any woman’s work. It speaks only to how we value Jennifer Lawrence.

Why not? They are the ones who have the least to lose. Or do you suggest that women working minimum wage jobs should be the ones who put their source of income at risk for speaking up?

I would agree; the cabbies and their racist shit ruined a lot (have experienced this myself). And Uber, as you say, tried to address and it really was well received by drivers and passengers because the rates were cool, the pick-ups on time with door to door, and drivers got paid. Now, with the price war as you point…

You know, three times I’vr had to get fingerprints for VOLUNTEER work. It’s not that burdensome.

One must have a fingerprint on file, in Cali where I live, to drive one’s child on school field trips. Uber/Lyft are full of shit saying it is an undue burden on drivers. What is an undue burden on drivers, is the lack of benies, no pay while waiting, no tip in app (Uber), high phone, gas, oil, tire charges (some…

well yea that’s the point — if one of these two very different industries must require fingerprinting and licensing, then i wouldn’t pick strippers first

The ACA is going to die the death of a thousand cuts. Too many concessions were made which have allowed the GOP to both prophesy its failure and engage in conduct to fulfill that prophesy.

A reminder: The President of the United States is pretty much the LEAST important office you vote for. Vote every time you can, for every position that you can, at every level of government that you can. Keep voting year after year, until the people that think that basic health care should be something that you “earn”…

Really? That read like sarcasm to me.

Yeah fuck people without health care. WHat a victory!