CHRISTIAN TOTO: Your Turn, Hollywood (Women’s March Edition).
Stars glommed on to the cause, letting themselves be captured on camera and interviewed by reporters along the way.
This year? We’ll have to wait until Jan. 19.
Of course, Sarsour’s ugly record wasn’t exactly secret prior to the first Women’s March. Perhaps her most outrageous statement?
This is a woman who said that Ayaan Hirsi Ali – who was a victim of FGM [female genital mutilation], escaped brutal conditions, and now must travel with bodyguards 24/7 – deserves to have her vagina taken away because Sarsour doesn’t agree with her worldview.
At a time when a decade’s old Tweet can alter, if not permanently stain, a career, this horrific statement has been roundly ignored by most reporters and every actress at the first two March events.
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Will Hollywood news sites question any stars who previously attached themselves to the March knowing what we all know now? This reporter set up a Google Alert for the terms “women’s march hollywood” several weeks ago to keep tabs on the subject.
So far, it’s come up mostly empty. We’ll see if that changes in the next few days.
I’m so old, I can remember when Hollywood still posed as meaningful change being “on us.”