“Listen, Jennifer Lawrence deserves every bit as much as her male counterpart”, the former Sex and the City star said.
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However, she doesn’t think it should be a gender issue. In so doing, she’s bound to attract some controversy by saying that while she believes in equality, but that she doesn’t consider herself a feminist. Women are paying the bills, getting it done, getting the kids here and there. “We know nearly nothing about people’s marriage, because even those who we’re most intimate with in friendships, we don’t always share the good or the bad”. Done? Good. Cue the cavalcade of headlines: “Sarah Jessica Parker Struggles to Make a Coherent Argument Against Feminism”, “Sarah Jessica Parker Declares “I Am Not a Feminist” Because She “Doesn’t Qualify”, “Sarah Jessica Parker Says “I Am Not a Feminist”, “Sarah Jessica Parker on Feminism: “I Am Not a Feminist”.
But she is a fervent advocate for equal pay – the hot button topic that sparked a new era of feminism in Hollywood: “I would like all of that nonsense to end”, she continues. “People of color, gays, lesbians, and transgenders who are carving out this space”.
“I am not a feminist”, she said in the September issue of Marie Claire magazine.
Upon receiving the Billboard award for Woman of the Year in 2012, Katy Perry announced, “I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women”.
“I am not a feminist”.
We’d offer to lend them a dictionary, so they can see for themselves that the only universal belief of feminism is the political, economical and social equality of the sexes. Maybe the actress is just confused on the word’s meaning – it has been misconstrued many times before. “I just want them to be happy and curious”. “My mum’s a big feminist”.
“My dad has a very balanced and respectful view on a lot of things too”.
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“But it’s a amusing conversation to even have, because of course it should be that way”.
