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Ladies, Don’t Cheer on Brad & Jen
Last night at the SAG Awards, a few pictures worth 1,000 words raced around the Internet.
Folks…
📷: Emma McIntyre pic.twitter.com/OqcexkwwYF
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 20, 2020
Across my female social circles, hearts were aflutter. Brad and Jen, reunited!
Why is any self-respecting woman cheering this? Many years after publicly cheating on his wife, he does her the favor of paying attention to her? Too little, too late pal.
I do not understand the obsession w/ Brad & Jen getting back together. They were married, she was devoted to the marriage, he cheated on her extremely publicly & left. He's not a good guy
If you want a celeb couple to back, Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russel are going on 40yrs together.. https://t.co/Q3pM1XaaB9
— Liberal, Not Lefty (@liberalnotlefty) January 20, 2020
What does this say to young women about how they should expect to be treated by men? They deserve more than men like Brad, and it would be nice for celebrity publications to bear in mind the message they’re sending before excitedly plastering the photos in their pages.
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36+ years of living in sin? They never married.
That’s the best that is possible these days?
I think part of the reason why such celebrities do not get married is so they do not feel obligated to remain (secular-ly) faithful to their spouses.
You have really high expectations of celebrity publications. A friend of mine calls those magazines celebrity smut. What this should tell young women is, don’t look to celebrities as role models.
Possible messages: Redemption is possible. Forgiveness is a higher path than resentment. Love is real.
None of these messages may apply here. I don’t know their hearts. But I do believe in the possibilities.
You, and we, actually don’t know about what went on in their marriage. You think you do. You have almost zero real information. But yet you broadcast your opinion. Telling others what they should think and who they should like or dislike.
This post is unworthy of being on the main page of a supposedly thoughtful political blog.
I mean, really. Extrapolating anything to the wider world from the goings-on in Hollywood isn’t very meaningful. I have more confidence in the young women of today than to think they’re out there saying “Look, Jen was nice to Brad! I’m going to be a doormat for my cheating boyfriend.”
But Franco….Enquiring minds want to know…
I don’t give a rat’s tookus what goes on between Brad, Angelina, the prince and princess of a once great empire, blah blah blah. I like Brad Pitt as an actor, he’s enjoyable to watch. That doesn’t mean I have to care about his personal life. I got enough problems of my own.
It’s a fact often remarked on that a lot of us ordinary folk, out here in flyover country, look to celebrities as role models—that we dream of being famous and rich like them, living a lifestyle like theirs—in fact, that many of us want to play-act as if we were celebrities.
Less remarked on is that it goes the other way as well: Don’t you sometimes get the impression that the celebrities are all dreaming of having normal lives—of having the level of success, in relationships and in life, that millions of ordinary people have—that the celebrities want to play-act that they’re normal people? They look at the non-celebrity life, and they say, Marriage, family—what novel ideas! And they yearn for these deep, ordinary joys of life, these good things that their money and connections can never buy.
And they almost always fail—their marriages break up, their families fall apart, their lives become a battle-scarred no-man’s-land—whether because fame and fortune come with too many temptations, or because they have no practice at this kind of life, and no good role models close to them, in their celebrity subculture.
It doesn’t mean that we should emulate them; on the contrary, it means they’ve been trying to emulate us.
Truer words are seldom spoken. Maybe when Bethany wants to post, she could consider choosing the member feed.
Who?
The two people who know most about what on between them seem happy to see each other.
@bethanymandel
How come this post is on the main feed and my post Provoking Insanity, or for that matter my post about the new Stormy Daniels feature film, isn’t? Seriously???
Here is an example of a thoughtful comment that is actually it’s own post on the member feed, which is often far more interesting than this main feed here. And you can read other thoughtful content there and you can comment! You don’t even have to be gramatikal . But then again, if you clicked on this one for any reason other than hoping to see some dissent in the comments, don’t join. Please.
Uh, she’s a contributor, and you are not. You would make a good contributor.
Franco – sometimes when you are faced with the absurdity of impeaching Trump, and the rest of the nasty news, you “megxit” into La La Land for a few minutes for some relief…..
It’s not about who. I’m referring to content. I post stuff that’s not worthy of the main feed a lot I don’t expect it to be promoted. Some things I write, despite trying my best to be humble, are certainly better than something like this!
This is relief? Judging people you don’t know anything about, but pure hearsay, probably a lot of lies anyway, and trying to scold celebrity publications into suppressing lucrative content based on role modeling? It’s preposterous.
Well, normally I spell relief “R O L A I D S”. But sometimes I spell it “judging people I don’t know based on lies.” Other times I spell it “W H I S K Y”.
Technical difficulties, Franco.
@max is working on it with Bethany. It’s not just your posts, there are others not getting promoted despite being marked by an editor for being promoted.
I’m a bit disappointed that Bethany’s post calls exclusively on women to adopt the proper attitude of completely unforgiving condemnation toward the cretinous Mr. Pitt. I think that a man is as capable of bitter, resentful vindictiveness as any woman.
And of course, it’s easy for a guy like me, who never had a 10 throw herself at me, much less a hundred tens, in various times and places around the world, to remain faithful to my wonderful wife. I can judge Brad Pitt to be an absolute moral reprobate because I have absolutely no idea what it’s like to be him. Of course I would never be so weak, even in possible moments of “weakness” far away from my wife, lonely, maybe a little bit drunk. No, I would absolutely be a man and do the right thing and turn her advances down flat!
Brad Pitt is a terrible husband! Cheater!
I had no idea to whom “Brad and Jen” referred.
If it were George Dickel, you’d spell it “whiskey.”
Why? That’s a bit harsh. Bethany has a wider audience than we do. Many people are interested in what she thinks about the things she cares about.
There is a wider audience out there (of I’ll admit mostly women) who care about the relationship of Brad and Jen. Its interesting that years later she can run into him, and be somewhat cordial and civil. I dont particularly care about Brad and Jen, but I think this is an important life lesson for women. Pretty boys are jerks. They’ll cheat on you, they’ll cheat on the one who they dump you for, and they’ll cheat on the next one too. Because they can. They can buy the cow, and still enjoy the field – to mix metaphors.
Jen deserves better, Brad deserves a social disease. (not anything terrible, maybe start with something with a lot of burning and itching down there)
Yet you’re aware of Mitch Ryder. Get your priorities straight.
Actually, I read recently that only Maker’s Mark refer to it as “whisky”, and all others have an E. I have not verified this myself other than to, at the time, look at my dwindling bottle of Maker’s and see if it indeed was spelled that way,
Nobody should be interested in what anybody thinks about Brangelina except the friends and family of Brangelina. And perhaps Jennifer Aniston.
And Brad has a much, much, much squared wider audience than Mrs. Mendel. If we are going by popularity then why the double-standard? By the way, do you know these people Brad and Jen? You talk as though you do. I don’t know either one myself. Like others here I didn’t get the reference, didn’t really know about their relationship, and was appalled to discover an A-list Hollywood billionaire celebrity cheated on poor little Jennifer Anniston, America’s girl next door.
That was edifying about pretty boys. I didn’t know that. Here I am, a guy whose only seen female after female fall for, well, not just pretty boys, mostly very wealthy and successful men, ignoring guys like me. ( I guess they would call me a loser) Boy, can they ever cheat too! But it seems the lectures to females aren’t working very well are they? Jen could have married a guy like me, but noooo, she chose cheatin’ Brad! I woulda never cheated on her. Oh well…
Talk about harsh, wishing a social disease that involves burning- I think that’s gonorrea (sp?) – is like, really harsh. We just said this post shouldn’t be up on the main feed, not wishing any diseases on her or anyone. Sheesh.
What we learn when there’s a glitch in the member feed promotion system. Times like these make us look back fondly on Mona Charen’s posts.
When my wife and I took the George Dickel distillery tour, the guide at least implied that they were the only beverage spelled that way.
No.