people took her to task for the tone-deaf implication that (1) the struggle for queer women and women of color is basically over now in part because white people have done a sufficient job fighting for them (LOL forever), and (2) WOCs and queer women haven’t been out here fighting for feminism since day one and now need to step up. Look, I’m all for tough love, when it’s truthful. But what Arquette was saying? It wasn’t adding up to me and many others, and a backlash as well as a defense of her statement commenced.
