Yeah, I don’t know why you think when discussing gender disparity women are automatically required to discuss racial disparity as well. You don’t need to pit women against women. And if there are white female actresses who don’t want to discuss racial disparity, that doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to discuss…

Indeed, she doesn’t even have to toe any party’s line. However her right to say anything she wants is mirrored by everyone else’s right to voice our approval or disapproval of what she said. Disagreement is not censorship.

You speak a lot of truth. One of the sad things I have observed is that my women friends in the US, who have very little paid maternity leave/national health care/nationalised day care etc, have as a group been more successful than my equally talented European friends (admittedly this is a Western European group,…

I don’t give her any credit, I’m sorry. Unless she was living under a rock, she knew exactly what the pay gap meant, she knew it was one of the most important and urgent issues women face, and there is no excuse whatsoever for her to say it’s rude to talk about it and that she won’t do it “just because she’s a woman”.…

To me, it doesn’t seem hard to tell that she was referring to the sheer amount of money anyone in Hollywood is making. Women in Hollywood make enough money to make Solomon blush, but, unconscionably, their salaries are unequal to the men’s. But it’s the same story all over - women are making a fraction of what men are…

She meant what she said the first time. It was a jab a Lawrence, who is from the middle of nowhere in the US, but can out act most of the other actresses around.

But we do. We want people who are well-known and respected to highlight this issue for the rest of us. Does she make more money than I do? Yes, she makes ridiculous money compared to me. I say, go get your money, girl. Go get money comparable to men in your field. But speak up for the rest of us, too. They might hear…

Yeah, to be fair, several commentators on this site said the same thing when jezebel reported on the Lawrence essay. The resounding attitude seemed to be “why do I care about a bunch of rich women?” Which, of course, is incredibly shortsighted because if the highest paid women in our country still can’t get paid what…

One of the many untruths bandied about in the US is that women in European countries are treated with equality in the workplace. They aren’t. And they tend, by and large, to be more traditional. Winslet, whom I like, is being a good girl. She’s not being an icky American feminist like Jennifer Lawrence.

In which another person thinks that just because they’re lucky enough not to have a struggle, that no one else could possibly experience discrimination or anything negative.

Kate Winslet, you let me down. How can the daughter of theatrical people be so fucking infuriatingly blase about money? Does she think it’s her just reward for having “paid her dues”—hey, now I get to look down on people who are screwed over in my industry? While the whole time her male costars/directors/producers are…

You have a point and if she had just said “I am uncomfortable talking about money”, fair enough. I think when anyone starts essentially saying, “well, it’s not a problem for me, so I cannot understand the fuss”, it gets people’s backs up.

Nah, this is absolutely the privileged musings of a woman who doesn’t have to worry about money. Regardless of your cultural upbringing, inequality is inequality. She’s wrong, and keeping quiet is what perpetuates this inequality.

I was looking through it when I ran across a comic about a trans woman comparing her experiences before and after she transitioned. She worked with the technology aspect of filmmaking. She got more questions testing her technical knowledge of her equipment and people challenged her choices about things. She didn’t…

In that case, it would be helpful if she just stayed out of the conversation altogether by saying, “No comment.”

Perhaps but she should at least realize that there’s a growing disparity that isn’t going away. She’s part of the disenfranchised whether she likes it or not.

“I don’t think that’s a very nice conversation to have publicly at all,” she told BBC. “I’m quite surprised by these conversations to be honest, simply because it seems quite a strange thing to be discussing out in the open like that. I am a very lucky woman and I’m quite happy with how things are ticking along.”

Look at Kate putting on airs to the detriment of her peers. Pretty sure she had a lower middle class upbringing so not sure where all this “vulgar to talk about money” attitude comes from.

I very much doubt she was talking about Miss Congeniality 2 as that’s her vehicle and the first one was an enormous hit and I think she was even a producer on the second. Don’t know anything about Loverboy but my money is on Crash anyways. Lord that was a pretentious pile of movie crap. And with so many egos involved…

Oh dear, I hope Kate doesn’t hurt her delicate hands from all that pearl-clutching.