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She was so much more than that. To boil her down to that stereotype is a disservice to her.
It has a lot more to do with recent campaigns to appoint a female SG, and the UN once again passing them all up for another man. 70+ years without a female SG...there were 7 female candidates this year. The Wonder Woman thing came *right after* the appointment of yet another male, so it’s really much more than…
Wonder Woman was also created by man who fetishized women, and women’s empowerment. I love Wonder Woman, she was personally empowering to me. But I can see how some people might take issue with a scantily clad, tall, thin, white woman being put forth as the face of women’s empowerment. Although, I personally think…
It comes on the heels of another man being selected as secretary- general despite there being 7 well qualified women and many many other slights against women from the UN which seems to think gender equality is better supported by a cartoon figure than by actual action to improve womens status.
Maybe some. For me in particular, probably not so much the Gawkfugees, I got along with people there too. But it’s part of the overall effect, yeah. The best of Gawker’s commentariat, though we did get a few, isn’t necessarily who Jez wound up with after the divorce. ;-)
Rough week and I need some Jez sympathy. My hubs’ dad died unexpectedly last Saturday and tomorrow’s the funeral. Hubs has gone from taciturn to non-verbal. It’s tough that this is something I can’t fix for him. Adulting is hard everyone.
I grew up with Wonder Woman. Cartoons, comics, dolls, TV show. She was an enormously empowering figure for girls then, and I think the occasional honoring of fictional characters as honorary ambassadors is wonderfully whimsical — in a world that could sorely use a little good-natured whimsy, particularly at the…
If getting dumped wasn’t bad enough, the emails back and forth about what went wrong were brutal, and only started because he wanted to stay friends but was all...boyfriendy about it.
What you’re describing (building women up—tearing them down) is a demonstrable pattern of behavior on our part. And, frankly, I think it poisons the water for all of us. It’s a hyped up version of how we treat women more generally and it’s gross behavior and creates a gross environment for women.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Fuck this revisionist bullshit man. The HOTEL where the awards were taking place at, like every hotel in the city then, was segregated (as it remained until 1950s). AMPAS didn’t segregate her The Ambassador Hotel did. The hotel had a no black people policy and the Academy forced them to let her…
I`ve never understood the weird hatred for Anne Hathaway, but I think it, in part, stems from the sense that she`s insincere. Also, there is some very peripheral rumbling that she is a closeted lesbian, that maybe fuels some of the hate? I’ve never really understood why people dislike her so much - she seems equally…
In the same way she did? Did anyone tell him to go away? Did anyone tell him to stop trying so hard? (Which he is.) Did he vow to step back from the limelight the way she did?
George Clooney didn’t thank anyone at all. Instead he touted how awesome and progressive the Academy was on social issues without realizing it was the same organization that forced Hattie McDaniel to sit at a segregated table.
Very much with you. 99% of actors (and every other kind of performer, including athletes and politicians) are super-driven and the epitome of thirsty, yet we insist they act like they are effortless cool cats and judge them ridiculously hard if they let the facade slip and make it clear that they want what they want —…
i think you’re on a horse that’s a little higher.
Yawn. Come down off that high horse, when you’re done, partner.
My good friend from college had smoked pot with her once because HER bestie happened to have Hathaway as a roommate when Hathaway was doing the college thing post princess diaries. And she said she was so nice and real and funny and self-deprecating. When all the hathahating started, I couldn’t get my friends very…
she didn’t deserve any of the hate she got. we made fun of her for being thirsty for an oscar when everyone in the industry is. why did she get singled out?