Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch has hit out at pay disparity in Hollywood, saying he will not accept a role unless a woman is paid the same.

Royal drama The Crown became the latest production to spark controversy because of unequal pay, when it emerged that Matt Smith was receiving more than Claire Foy.

Foy, who starred as the Queen, was paid less than Smith, who played the Duke of Edinburgh, in the Netflix drama because Smith was better known.

TiberiusDidNothingWrong wrote:I don't mind the guy, I like him as an actor.

You can only expect people to say things like this. Humans are gynocentric, for evolutionary purpose. People find it very satisfying to delude themselves of sexual fitness through the manner of the according moral abstraction.

Boofer wrote:

TiberiusDidNothingWrong wrote:I don't mind the guy, I like him as an actor.

You can only expect people to say things like this. Humans are gynocentric, for evolutionary purpose. People find it very satisfying to delude themselves of sexual fitness through the manner of the according moral abstraction.

That's very nicely expressed, but ultimately wrong. If it were so, then women would be into banging up-talking, mincing, man-bunned, four-eyed 'allies' with Tumblr accounts replete with Bell Hooks and Judith Butler quotations.

Acquiescent virtuousness is the mating tactic of those who've already failed to attract a woman via the normal channels of mating fitness i.e. being handsome, fit, strong, highly-intelligent, independent, resourceful and 'dangerous'.