In today’s “are you even serious right now?!?” news, Stacey Dash continues to prove she is still “Clueless.”
The Fox News correspondent has taken issue with Patricia Arquette’s Oscar acceptance speech, where the “Boyhood” actress declared that women have long fought for “everybody else’s equal rights,” and that it’s “our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America.”
“I was appalled. I could not believe it,” Stacey said on “Fox & Friends” on Monday, of Patricia’s applause-earning speech. “First of all, Patricia Arquette needs to do her history.
“In 1963, [President] Kennedy passed an equal pay law. It’s still in effect,” she continued. “I didn’t get the memo that I didn’t have any rights.”
Of note, a recent study by the National Partnership for Women and Families found that women in the U.S. are paid roughly 78 cents to every dollar paid to men for the same duties.
Stacey may be “appalled” by the idea that women deserve to receive the same pay as men for the same job, but the Oscar winner’s speech was met by an enthusiastic, fist-pumping “HELL YES!!” from Meryl Streep in the Oscars audience.
Following her speech, Patricia took to Twitter on Monday morning, continuing her passionate fight for equal rights.
Women have been basically paying a gender tax for generations.
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 23, 2015
I have long been an advocate for the rights of the #LBGT community. The question is why aren’t you an advocate for equality for ALL women?
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 23, 2015
If you are fighting against #Equalpay you are fighting for ALL women and especially women of color to make less money than men.
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 23, 2015
Guess which women are the most negatively effected in wage inequality? Women of color. #Equalpay for ALL women. Women stand together in this
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 23, 2015
— Erin O’Sullivan
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