hollywood sucks
First of all, I have pink eye. Cry me a pink river.
Okay now that that’s out of the way, HOLLYWOOD SUCKS. We all know that there’s a total double standard when it comes to image and body size between women and men–to all women’s detriment. Yada yada, we all know that the media, including hollywood, tv, magz, music promote a dog-eat-dog competitiveness that results in women striving for the most anorexic bodies in the survival of the hottest.
Sometimes I forget about this bull shit, but today in my pink eye misery, I’m watching the MTV movie awards pre-show. Nicole Ritchie and Fat Joe are the two celeb pre-show hosts. Now what world do we live in where the girl has to get a drug addiction and use coke to lose the 5 pounds of fat on her body that once separated her from the "skull and bones" anorexic-hollywood-leading-lady elite society; and the guy weighs 200 pounds above the dangerously-obese weight level and who probably has 4 heart attacks a day. The two of them together epitomize the double standard among gender body ideals.
Another couple on the red carpet: Darryl Hannah and Quentin Tarentino. A long legged beautiful thin blond who is struggling to look young next to a balding ugly dog of a man who once commented on how accurate and "good" a rape scene in another movie seemed.
I guess you could say that talent separates the two aforementioned couples, but oi vey, I’m sick of this anorexic thin double standard shit. Men can be old, fat, thin, young, beautiful, ugly, bald, as long as they’re funny or have personality/talent (and sometimes they aren’t even funny or have no personality: Horatio Sanz) and women can be talented, funny, with lots of personality but if they’re not beautiful or thin will be ostracized or be relegated to peripheral roles;
ie: not thin and harassed: Rosie O’Donnell, Rosanne Barr, Star Jones. Then the not beautiful and therefore relegated to peripheral characters: Toni Collette; Thora Birch–looked what happened to her versus leading blond co-stars Scarlet Johannson and Mira Sorvino; Jeannine Garafallo–everyone loves to hate her and she has reduced size to fit in with size zero cohorts, but perhaps this has to do with her lefty politics.
I’m I over-simplifying to reinforce my anger about hollywood body image and the double standards of women and men’s body ideals?
I’ve uploaded the max number of photos, so check out these links to pics of the double standard (movie couples and real-life couples):
Thora Birch is non-conventionally beautiful so she gets shacked up with a really ugly and anti-social Steve Buscemi (of course I loved this movie and it was a close translation to the very hilarious comic, so perhaps this isn’t exemplary of the double standards… but speaking of translations…
Lost in Translation - old rich man meets beautiful young do-nothing girl. gross. Even the female director is beautiful and thin… although if she was fat, would she have a chance? even as Coppola’s daughter? women only make up 5% of all directors. I’m mixing up my isms…
Is she kissing her grandpa? Katherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas
Talentless with no more weight to lose…
I knew there was a reason I stuck to CSPAN, Headline News and TLC… this shit sucks.
June 10th, 2005 at 10:00 am
who the hell is Star Jones ?
June 10th, 2005 at 10:08 am
I’ll take Mamma Cass Elliot or Aretha Franklin anyday over these skinny bitches!!
June 10th, 2005 at 11:24 am
Star Jones is the only black woman on the View:
http://www.angelalagreca.com/pics/theview.jpg
oh, and Steve. I love you!
June 12th, 2005 at 9:18 pm
Mo-nique from the QUeens of Comedy any day… .skinnnnnnnny bitches?!?!
July 4th, 2005 at 3:18 am
I can’t entirely share your view.
In London, where I happen to live most of the time, I can see it in a very obvious way.
The girls, yes, they have to be pretty, in order to mean something, unless they overtake certain roles, which are usually more pre-destined for men(i.e. Missy Elliott) Whereas for guys it matters much more what they are doing, or to cut down to it, whether they are in a band, or more so… Rockstars.
Just look at Pete Doherty and Kate Moss. Pete Doherty is not particularly goodlooking from a conventional point of view, Kate Moss is possibly the most interestingly good looking woman I have ever seen.
She looks good, goes partying, but else there is not much to her.
Pete Doherty is the teen ideal multi-NME-featured androgynous, heroin-addicted Libertinessinger, everyone wants to be like.
However, she wants to date a Rock Star, just like plenty of other supermodels.
Pete Doherty wants to date a pretty girl. A supermodel.
I don’t know what is more superficial, the longing for modelesque looks or the longing for status.
And we are talking London here, which is beneath it’s pseudo-gritty surface just as glossy and superficial as L.A., could ever dream to be.
November 8th, 2005 at 9:10 pm
its nice