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Meryl Streep lambasted over 'I'd rather be a rebel than a slave' T-shirts promoting film that critics say white washes the women's suffrage movement
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-white-washes-women-s-suffrage-movement.html
A promotional campaign for the new Meryl Streep film Suffragette has become a PR nightmare thanks to T-shirts worn by Streep and her co-stars, which some say appear to lump the plight of white women in with the horrors endured by slaves.
The shirts - worn by Streep, Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff and Romola Garai (all white women)--bear a quote from the suffragette Streep plays in the film, Emmeline Pankhurst: 'I'd rather be a rebel than a slave.'
Critics have called the campaign tone deaf, in part because the T-shirts inevitably bring to mind the Confederacy by pairing the words 'rebel' and 'slave', but also because of the uneasy history between the feminist and black civil rights movements.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-white-washes-women-s-suffrage-movement.html