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10 years later and still no answers.

The deeply worrying thing about catcalling is that the catcaller must know that their target isn’t going to turn around and fall in to their arms pleading ‘oh dear my please have sex with me here and now’. A lot of the time they know that. Often they don’t do it for that, someone who shouts ‘nice tits’ from a van isn’t trying to date you. They’re trying to humiliate you, reinforce their dominance over you; it’s an exercise of male power. It’s a way of communicating ‘I can say and do whatever I want to you, no matter how inappropriate or how uncomfortable it makes you feel, and you can’t do anything about it.’ Catcalling is not a compliment, it’s a threat.

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I gave Chris Rock a hard time in the past, but he’s out here defending black women and I can’t let that go unnoticed.

Chris Rock Demands More Respect and Better Pay for Black Actresses: ‘They Would Love to Get to Jennifer Lawrence’s Place’

Chris Rock used his interview with Essence magazine to speak out on behalf of black women in Hollywood.

In doing so, the comedian also called out Jennifer Lawrence’s essay on the gender pay gap among female actresses. “Black women get paid less than everybody in Hollywood. Everybody’s talking about Jennifer Lawrence. Talk to Gabrielle Union. If you want to hear stories, talk to Nia Long. Talk to Kerry Washington,” Rock told the magazine in an interview that took place in December 2015 prior to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. He covers Essence’s annual Hollywood issue. “They would love to get to Jennifer Lawrence’s place, or just be treated with the same amount of respect.”

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Rock says that he has “never done a movie” where a studio person hasn’t asked, “Does the girl have to be black?”

“Black women are the least represented on-screen. They just are,” he exclaimed. “You can go see a lot of movies and there’s not one black woman in there with, like, a real part. It’s a real, real, real problem.”

The 50-year-old star also spoke in defense of black actresses when he participated in the New Yorker’s profile of Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones. “Black women have the hardest gig in show business,” he said. “You hear Jennifer Lawrence complaining about getting paid less because she’s a woman – if she was black, she’d really have something to complain about.”

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Will Rock call out Lawrence when he hosts this year’s Academy Awards? While she is nominated for her role in Joy, the comedian has refused to speak about his monologue. After Academy Awards producer Reginald Hudlin told ET that Rock was “writing a new show” in response to the #OscarsSoWhite outrage, his rep responded, “Chris has made no decisions about the content of the show. All will be revealed on Feb. 28.”

http://www.etonline.com/news/181590_chris_rock_says_black_actresses_would_love_to_get_jennifer_lawrence_place_hollywood/