When Patricia Arquette took the stage to accept her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 'Boyhood,' she made a brave statement to demand gender equality, but soon started facing backlash for further comments made backstage.
The 46-year-old actress said in an interview afterwards that the truth is that even though women sort of feel like they have equal rights in America, right under the surface, there are huge issues that are applied that really do affect them, News.com.au reported.
The 'Boyhood' star added that it's time for all the women in America and all the men that love women, and all the gay people, and all the people of colour that they have all fought for to fight for women now.
Her comments sparked criticism with one Twitter user saying "My face, listening to Patricia Arquette asking people of colour to stand with white feminists, cause payback?" and another posting "Patricia Arquette, yes to equal pay for women but suggesting gays and people of colour are somehow basking in equality and owe you is whack."
Another fan wrote that "All Arquette did is prove the feminist movement is dominated by ppl who 100 percent ignore the experiences of women of colour. We have to do better."
"Arquette's political grandstanding played into every ugly stereotype about 'feminism' being about little more than some privileged white women trying to become more privileged," Slate's Amanda Marcotte wrote.
What made the comments seem even more misjudged was the lack of racial diversity at this year's Oscars, with no non-white people nominated in any of the acting categories.
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Arquette tried but her calling for women, men that love women, gay people and people of colour like they were separate groups was a mistake, said charlotte (@charlottiiiiee).
Arquette has since tried to clarify her comments, in a number of tweets including "Guess which women are the most negatively effected in wage inequality? Women of colour. #Equalpay for ALL women. Women stand together in this.