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It was the speech everyone was talking about. And then Patricia Arquette went into the press room.

And everyone’s a little bit confused.

Yesterday, there was a part of the (very long) Oscars ceremony that audiences were sure would go down in history. We even predicted it would.

That moment was when Patricia Arquette, the 2015 Oscars winner of Best Supporting Actress for her role in Boyhood, used her time on stage to deliver a political statement.

Patricia Arquette, with her Oscar and her brilliant speech. Before she went and ruined it all.

She addressed the gender pay gap for women and called for women’s equality across America (we hope she meant everywhere).

In case you missed it, you can watch her speech below. Post continues after video.

But when the 46-year-old actress tried to follow up her Oscars speech with another in the press room, she ended up … kind of ruining it.

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It started off fine..

But gradually got worse.

Until she delivered the final blow.

As many (many, many) people have pointed out on social media, like feminist and writer Roxane Gay, the feminist movement, LGBTQ movement and the civil rights movement are not completely unrelated but actually equality calls for… well, equality. For everyone.

And it’s statements like these that shut feminism off to people wanting to take part in the important movement, because they feel it’s an exclusive party they didn’t get invited to. Not unlike the Oscars themselves.

You can watch Patricia undoing a brilliant acceptance speech below.

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