Rose McGowan's Apology - The "Charmed" well-known actress and director was invited to Bret Easton Ellis' Podcast and had a talk about sexism and misogyny. Due to some comments she made there, a lot of people got offended and backlashed at her through Twitter.
Said comments were referred to the LGBT community. After these, members of the community and supporters of it reacted against Rose McGowan and called her a "hater" and someone who clearly didn't "support" the LGBT community.
"I see now basically people who've fought for the right to stand on top of a float wearing an orange speedo and take molly (MDMA)," was one of the comments she said on the podcast, CNN noted.
"I fought for the right to marry the person I love, not to take drugs in speedos on a parade float," was one of the comments on Twitter that went against the words expressed by the actress and director.
Rose McGowan then wrote an Op-Ed for The Advocate and Huffington Post posted it as well. There, she reacts and corrects herself on the misinterpretations of her past words.
The appropriate title this explanation has on the Huffington Post is, "My Thoughts on the Controversy Over My Comments About the Gay Community and Misogyny."
"I was on the Bret Easton Ellis podcast the other day discussing sexism and misogyny. I made a dumb generalization, for that I apologize. For everything else I said, no. I will not," was the opening paragraph to her thoughts on the matter.
Then, she went on explaining that what she really meant was that as gay rights were fought for so fiercely, now other matters that include misogyny should be fought for as fiercely.
Basically, she asked for support. The actress expressed that as much as she fought for the rights to the gay community as a huge supporter, now other people need help and it's time to "pass the torch," to put it in a way.
After this, some people were apparently still not convinced about Rose McGowan's intentions and she had a pretty clear message for them in her Twitter.
"Did any of you think that you may have offended me at some point with your attitudes? Guess what, I'll survive. So will you."
Even if some people took the "dumb generalization" too personally in order to accept Rose McGowan's apology for it, she did still try.
