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Oprah, Meryl Streep, 100+ other celebrities call for global gender equality in open letter
WENN ^ | 5/21/2018 | staff

Posted on 05/21/2018 10:34:50 AM PDT by simpson96

Celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep, and Natalie Portman have signed an open letter calling for an end to gender inequality.

The stars are among 140 signatories from the entertainment industry, which also include Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds, Amy Schumer and Thandie Newton, who have shown their support for the campaign, spearheaded by international charity ONE.

The letter is addressed to world leaders, who are told they have been put "on notice" to take action to put an end to the inequality, claiming that it leaves 130 million girls without an education and one billion women without access to a bank account.

"There is nowhere on earth where women have the same opportunities as men, but the gender gap is wider for women living in poverty," the letter reads. "Poverty is sexist. And we won't stand by while the poorest women are overlooked.

(Excerpt) Read more at kfoxtv.com ...


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To: simpson96

Every single article coming out of Hollywood in the last couple of years: Hypocritical Celebrities Demand (Insert Name of Group) Do What the Celebrities Tell Them To


81 posted on 05/21/2018 12:35:17 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Cowboy Bob

They’ll virtue signal about it on social media.


82 posted on 05/21/2018 12:38:12 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: petitfour

perhaps they’ll go to Michigan and push to end female mutilation....perhaps not....


83 posted on 05/21/2018 12:39:57 PM PDT by cherry
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To: simpson96

You’re have 10000 times more money than me, biythces! You have more privileges than me. So STFU.


84 posted on 05/21/2018 12:56:30 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Are they all going crazy, or have they already gone?)
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To: simpson96

There already is gender equality.

What these lunatics want is for women to have superiority and to break down gender roles so they can be homosexuals without being called homosexuals.


85 posted on 05/21/2018 1:00:51 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Steely Tom

They didn’t care about gun control as much either when Obama was president.


86 posted on 05/21/2018 1:02:30 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: simpson96

That’s nice. Start with the Muslim world, where the women need all the help they can get. Don’t badger, intimidate and annoy Western men, who’ve probably gone too far already in the fruitless quest of trying to make women happy.


87 posted on 05/21/2018 1:03:45 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: simpson96

Equality? Why do women want to come down to our level?


88 posted on 05/21/2018 3:12:45 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

Thanks. I guess you can tell I’m passionate against these older, successful Hollywood women who WERE IN A POSITION TO HELP THE VICTIMS AND STOP HARVEY ETC BUT CHOSE NOT TO to protect their own lucrative careers. Feminists, my butt.


89 posted on 05/21/2018 6:12:17 PM PDT by Yaelle
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