‘It’s Not Just About Women Anymore.’ – Sarah Jessica Parker Wants Broader Activist Movement
Sarah Jessica Parker has said that she is not a feminist – because she wants a movement including LGBT people.
The Sex and the City actress explained that she doesn’t “think it’s just women” who are fighting oppression, and that other people also need help, calling for a broader “humanist” movement.
She told Cosmopolitan: “As [playwright] Wendy Wasserstein would say, I’m a humanist. I’m enormously appreciative of the work that my mother’s generation did.
“We are the beneficiaries of a lot of disappointment, heartache, discouragement, and misunderstanding. But I see a lot of people trying to sort out their roles. People of colour, gays, lesbians, and transgenders who are carving out this space.
“I’m not spitting in the face or being lazy about what still needs to be done — but I don’t think it’s just women anymore.
“We would be so enormously powerful if it were a humanist movement.”
Jurassic World star Chris Pratt recently claimed that male celebrities need to be “objectified” more, in order to balance out sexism. The actor claimed: “I think it’s appalling that for a long time only women were objectified, but I think if we really want to advocate for equality, it’s important to not objectify women less, but objectify men just as often as we objectify women. There are a lot of beautiful women who got careers out of it, and I’m using it to my advantage.
“At the end of the day, our bodies are objects. We’re just big bags of flesh and blood and meat and organs that God gives us to drive around.”
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12 Comments
QueerMike
July 14, 06:33Spot on.
kacee
July 14, 08:00“I think it’s
appalling that for a long time only women
were objectified, but I think if we really
want to advocate for equality, it’s important
to not objectify women less, but objectify
men just as often as we objectify women……..Funny Chris ya talking gibberish mtchewwww
Gad
July 14, 09:34Talk is so cheap. Anyone and everyone talks
Pink Panther
July 14, 09:49Including you, yes?
Gad
July 14, 10:33One would think that with the new face of kitodiaries comes a positive change in attitude especially by the sole administrator.
Pink Panther
July 14, 11:08It’s the blog that got a facelift, old man. The blog. Not me.
Pink Panther
July 14, 11:09I’ll still call your bullshit when I see it.
pete
July 15, 07:39Pinky, all these replies to Gad seems personal. he had issues with the woman’s speech as do most of us & gave his thought.
Pink Panther
July 15, 14:39Really, Pete. Seriously?
pete
July 14, 11:10“At the end of the day, our bodies are objects. We’re just big bags of
flesh and blood and meat and organs that God gives us to drive
around”
Madam, biko speak for yourself. I’m more than what you just spewed above.
Pink Panther
July 14, 11:16Loool. Camdan, Pete. That’s basically what we are nah
Sinnex
July 14, 14:48Load of crap