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Mila Kunis pens powerful op-ed on gender bias and wage gap in Hollywood

In a new op-ed, Mila Kunis tells the story of one producer who told her that, because she refused to pose semi-nude in a magazine promoting her film, she’d “never work in this town again.” Kunis rails against sexism, the wage gap and bias in the piece — and explains the initiative she’s taking to fight it.

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(source: The Shaderoom)

So, we define folks by their parents now or does this only apply to innocent victims of murderous cops? I mean, I don’t see the press interjecting little clauses about other folks’ parents such as:

Dylan McDermott: stepfather murdered his mother.
Hayden Panettiere: father beats her mother. Beats, not past tense. The most public incident was at one of Eva Longoria’s restaurants after which he was put on probation.
Leighton Meester: parents were both federal convicts for their part in a drug smuggling ring. She was born while her mother was serving her sentence and spent the first 3 months of her life in a halfway house where her mother was allowed to nurse before going back to prison.
Drew Barrymore: father was a drug-addicted alcoholic who beat her mother.
Woody Harrelson: father was a hitman who was tried, convicted, and served his sentence…and then continued to carry out hits for cash after he was released. So he was tried, convicted, and imprisoned again.
Tobey Maguire: father robbed a bank across the street from where the family lived.

For that matter, I don’t even see the press defining anyone by the crimes they themselves committed, such as:

Jonathan Rhys Meyers: arrested in 2005 after he abused his 18-year-old girlfriend. He was 27 at the time.
Tim Allen: served over two years in prison for posession of cocaine back in the 70s. A white man went to prison for cocaine so you know he had a lot.
Matthew Broderick: drove on the wrong side of the road in Ireland and killed someone. His fine was $175.
Josh Brolin: arrested for beating up then-wife Diane Lane ten years ago.
Mark Wahlberg: beat two Vietnamese men in a racist attack so brutal that one of them is still blind in one eye. He sought to have his record expunged a couple of years ago so he could apply for a liquor license for his new restaurant.

But CNN would like us to never forget that Freddie Gray’s mother was an addict who couldn’t read because that is just so completely relevant to the fact that he was murdered by the police. Oh ok.