The white supremacy angle really made me chuckle too. I do not get how she made that mental leap. “Oh Anne, why must you be so much hotter than me? It’s bad so it’s almost definitely racist?”
For me, the funniest part has to be claiming that the author and Anne Hathaway were on "oddly parallel trajectories" until Anne had a "midlife crisis" as evidenced by her losing a bunch of weight and starring in WeCrashed and The Idea of You. The horror!
My wife has always been willowy and, in particular, has always had long and thin arms. Back in the late 80s, when there was a vogue for shirts that had high necks and no sleeves, she would vent her frustration about not being able to wear them, because she'd get too much grief from other women who'd crack jokes about how she must be starving herself. Female policing of other women's bodies is something I really don't envy as a man.
Wow, that essay really did not sit right with me. Aside from the basic problems you mention, it starts by bringing up the whole “Anne Hathaway is annoying” thing like that wasn’t a prime example of the internet arbitrarily deciding it hates a woman for existing in public.
A further oddity with the post is that if what is bothering the author about Hathaway's look is excessive Botox, Botox... wears off, so all the hubbub over Her New Face may have been for nothing!
There's an entire twitter cohort pretending being hot isn't a thing. Only matched by another cohort claiming only hotness matters. In both cases, most didn't get the sexual partners they would like to have. Nor did they get the compliments they'd have liked. And that's sad, but their resentment poisons everything.
Why oh why are there always women that have to have these grand moral take downs of people that make them feel unhappy?
Its just jealousy, rebranded as superiority.
As for getting anti-aging treatments of any kind: why can't it be the simple case that we are all pretending that we aren't getting closer to death and are just a little bit shallow and loved how we looked when we were young? If you took all the men off the planet I'm sure there would still be a healthy sized group of women that still got botox and facelifts and what have you.
Phoebe, when someone tells you you resemble a celebrity it likely means you have the same rising sign! Also, I bet you'd enjoy listening to a certain California manifestation big figure talk about how she is searching for role model celebrities who chose to age naturally and gracefully.
I think Anne Hathaway looks fabulous. Women should stop trashing other women’s appearances. Saying she’s “sad” about Anne’s eyebrows is a very strange insult.
The white supremacy angle really made me chuckle too. I do not get how she made that mental leap. “Oh Anne, why must you be so much hotter than me? It’s bad so it’s almost definitely racist?”
If it was some other race's supremacy they could both be ugly, I suppose?
For me, the funniest part has to be claiming that the author and Anne Hathaway were on "oddly parallel trajectories" until Anne had a "midlife crisis" as evidenced by her losing a bunch of weight and starring in WeCrashed and The Idea of You. The horror!
My wife has always been willowy and, in particular, has always had long and thin arms. Back in the late 80s, when there was a vogue for shirts that had high necks and no sleeves, she would vent her frustration about not being able to wear them, because she'd get too much grief from other women who'd crack jokes about how she must be starving herself. Female policing of other women's bodies is something I really don't envy as a man.
Wow, that essay really did not sit right with me. Aside from the basic problems you mention, it starts by bringing up the whole “Anne Hathaway is annoying” thing like that wasn’t a prime example of the internet arbitrarily deciding it hates a woman for existing in public.
Her alluding to 'subtler plastic surgery' reads like a foreshadowing of her future choices - already selecting only the best interventions.
A further oddity with the post is that if what is bothering the author about Hathaway's look is excessive Botox, Botox... wears off, so all the hubbub over Her New Face may have been for nothing!
I think it is perceived, rightly or wrongly, as the gateway intervention.
There's an entire twitter cohort pretending being hot isn't a thing. Only matched by another cohort claiming only hotness matters. In both cases, most didn't get the sexual partners they would like to have. Nor did they get the compliments they'd have liked. And that's sad, but their resentment poisons everything.
Ha. She wouldn't be happy if Anne Hathaway *didn't* get any work done, either. In my distant youth I was sometimes compared to Nastassja Kinski by people who were outrageous liars. I don't think Kinski has had anything done except to dye her hair and maybe get extensions, and she looks like this: https://www.alamy.com/nastassja-kinski-bei-der-cinema-for-peace-gala-2024-im-wecc-westhafen-event-convention-center-berlin-19022024-image597158387.html
That does not cheer me up.
She didn't look like that when she was young.
Well no. She didn't.
https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/63829/nastassja-kinski-and-the-serpent-los-angeles-california
I looked better back then too.
I cannot wait to discuss this for a whole entire hour!
It's the same reason all contemporary wealthy fictional characters have to be awful.
Why oh why are there always women that have to have these grand moral take downs of people that make them feel unhappy?
Its just jealousy, rebranded as superiority.
As for getting anti-aging treatments of any kind: why can't it be the simple case that we are all pretending that we aren't getting closer to death and are just a little bit shallow and loved how we looked when we were young? If you took all the men off the planet I'm sure there would still be a healthy sized group of women that still got botox and facelifts and what have you.
Phoebe, when someone tells you you resemble a celebrity it likely means you have the same rising sign! Also, I bet you'd enjoy listening to a certain California manifestation big figure talk about how she is searching for role model celebrities who chose to age naturally and gracefully.
I think Anne Hathaway looks fabulous. Women should stop trashing other women’s appearances. Saying she’s “sad” about Anne’s eyebrows is a very strange insult.
Will someone please point me in the direction of the article? All the buzz has me curious.
I link to it at the top!