J-Law, Adele, Cameron Diaz & More Lead Squad Of A-Listers Marching On LA To Demand Gender Equality
Jennifer Lawrence, Adele, Cameron Diaz, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and Viola Davis are just a few of a deadset bloody JUSTICE LEAGUE of A-Listers banding together to demand an end to gender inequality.
They're joining half a million women hitting the streets of LA to mark the 1st anniversary of Donald Trump's presidential inauguration with the 2018 Women's March, carrying protest placards in a demonstration against sexual harrassment, violence against women and unequal pay.
TBH the show of sisterhood from some of Hollywood's most heavy-hitting heroines is making our hearts damn near overflow!
Take J-Law and Adele for instance, who've both taken to social media to post snaps of themselves getting their march on with lady-bro Cameron Diaz.
"The most influential people in my life have always been women," Adele writes. "My family, my friends, my teachers, my colleagues, and my idols. I am obsessed with all the women in my life. I adore them and need them more and more every day.
"I am so grateful to be a woman, I wouldn't change it for the world. I hope I'm not only defined by my gender though. I hope I'm defined by my input to the world, my ability to love and to have empathy. To raise my son to be a a good man alongside the good man who loves me for everything I am and am not. I want what's best for people, I think we all do. We just can't agree on what that is. Power to the peaceful, power to the people x #womensmarch2018"
Elsewhere, Mila Kunis held the microphone for Scarlett Johansson, who addressed the crowd of 500,000 fierce females in attendance with an impassioned speech.
"Gender equality can't just exist outside ourselves — it must exist within. We must take responsibility not just for our actions, but for ourselves," she said.
Oscar-winner Viola Davis also addressed the crowd, speaking about the powderkeg topic of sexual harassment currently sweeping Hollywood and beyond.
“I am speaking today not just for the #MeToos, because I am a #MeToo. When I raise my hand it’s for all the women who are still in silence, the women who are faceless,” she said.
While Natalie Portman also gave an incredibly powerful and TBH quite chilling speech, revealing why she felt like a victim of "sexual terrorism" in Hollywood from a very young age.
"A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday -- euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with," the actress revealed.
"Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews. I understood very quickly, even as a 13-year-old, that if I were to express myself sexually I would feel unsafe and that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort."
She continued: "At 13 years old, the message from our culture was clear to me," she said. "I felt the need to cover my body and to inhibit my expression and my work in order to send my own message to the world that I'm someone worthy of safety and respect. The response to my expression, from small comments about my body to more threatening deliberate statements, served to control my behavior through an environment of sexual terrorism."
Other celebs in attendance include Nicole Richie, Olivia Munn, former Desperate Housewives co-stars Eva Longoria and Felicity Huffman, plus Kunis's bae Ashton Kutcher was also there for solidarity.
It'd feel a bit too trivial to say something like "you go girls" RN. But seriously, what a mind-blowing demonstration by so many brave, strong women (and just people in general) on an issue that affects us all. Let's hope the message sinks in and that change happens, soon.
- Emmy Mack
