According to Fast and Furious–series actress Michelle Rodriguez, being a woman in Hollywood is “like being born a slave” because of the gender pay gap.

When asked about the pay gap during an interview with TMZ last Thursday, Rodriguez said:

“It’s like being born a slave. You know it’s like, ‘Oh damn. Darn my luck. I wish I was born somewhere else or maybe some other way.’”

Yeah, dude — it’s just like slavery. Getting to work in the field of your choice is just like slavery, and getting paid millions upon millions of dollars to work in that field is also totally just like slavery, too! Totally comparable!

No.

It’s obviously not comparable, and obviously so incomparable that her doing so was obviously offensive.

Yes, sexism exists and is a problem. No, you can’t do anything about the fact that you were born a woman, and having been born a woman does mean that you’ll automatically have to deal with issues that people who were born men won’t have to deal with. But saying “darn my luck” when you’ve managed to achieve a successful acting career — something that countless people dream of doing as they’re waiting tables in Los Angeles to pay the bills all the while hoping for that big break — is pretty doggone rude. And to say that the way you feel about it is like, totally how the slaves must have felt about being enslaved? What are you even talking about?

Look, Rodriguez . . . I’ve got to say that your life of fame and fortune sounds pretty sweet to me. But what do I know? After all, my own acting dreams died in high school, and so maybe I’m missing something. But even if I am, and being a Hollywood actress really is so bad, then you know what? You’re totally free quit and do something else instead — which, in case you didn’t know, was definitely not something that slaves could do.