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comment by _refugee_
_refugee_  ·  3102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jennifer Lawrence: Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co‑Stars?

- It might be difficult to sympathize with J. Law personally

- life might be more unfair for other people

- ... but... uh... that's pretty much life, innit?

If we all sat around deciding that only the most unfair thing we could observe or hear about deserved our attention and our attempts at rectifying, well, then, we'd spend all our time instead at figuring out lots of different ways to quantify "unfair things," and frankly that's not a discussion I care much about nor want to have. Because when you are splitting hairs at whether being below the poverty-line and raising 3 kids as a single white mom is measurably "worse" than being below the poverty-line, having no kids, but being black with a criminal history, I think you are encroaching upon a far deeper and more miserable level of inhumanity than I care to associate with.

AKA: There's always a smaller fiddle, that doesn't mean the music already playing shouldn't be listened to.