Well, here’s a late update on the Alice Eve situation. Earlier this week, Alice Eve went on an Instagram rant about Bruce Jenner’s transition, hijacking the focus on transgender tolerance, acceptance and education to make an ill-worded and offensive “feminist” diatribe about wage equality. I feel like there was some confusion about just what was so offensive, so let me tell you what offended me so much: ALL OF IT. Alice used wording like “playing at being a ‘woman’” to describe a transgender woman. She hijacked an important issue like it was a competition and “wage equality” was MORE important. She behaved as if women or feminists were a monolithic group with a short attention span, like we can’t fight for multiple issues and causes all at the same time. While Alice had to do a series of Instagram posts-and-deletes, she ended up leaving one Instagram with a message about “exploring” gender identity, stopping short of actually apologizing for everything she said previously on her Instagram. But she did issue an apology at some point to Page Six:

Eve tells Page Six in a statement: “I deeply apologize for offending anyone. I support equal rights and equal dignity for all. I have deep compassion and support for Bruce Jenner. My intention was not to offend. My intention was simply to express that, with the overdue and welcome acceptance of us all living on a gender spectrum, we must encourage equality for all.”

[From Page Six]

Pro-Tip: When apologizing for verbal diarrhea that had you excoriated in the press, don’t phrase it with “…for offending anyone.” Just say: “I’m really sorry. I used the wrong words. And I shouldn’t have hijacked an important issue.” Simple, isn’t it?

Pro-Tip: When apologizing for verbal diarrhea that had you excoriated in the press, don’t try to restate the original argument you were making. Plus, no one even believes that Alice Eve’s intention was to “encourage equality for all.” Her original comments were about how she, as a biological female from birth, was categorically MORE oppressed than a transgender woman. Because it’s a competition, apparently.

Pro Tip: If all of this really is a competition for who is the most oppressed among us, a wealthy, educated, heterosexual white woman in the first world is never going to win that competition.

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A photo posted by Alice Eve (@aliceseve) on Apr 27, 2015 at 5:27am PDT

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