I love when Hollywood nitwits get a taste of what it is they are fomenting.
Independent-
In his acceptance speech for winning a Golden Globe for Best Actor in La La Land, Ryan Gosling took a moment to thank the ‘lady’ in his life, fellow actor Eva Mendes. While he was singing, dancing and playing the piano for the role, she was at home, holding the fort, looking after things so that we could have “one of the best experiences I’ve ever had on a film”.“If she hadn’t taken all that on so that I could have this experience, would surely be someone else up here other than me to today. Sweetheart, thank you”, said the actor.
She wasn’t just making sure his dinner was cooked by the time he came home, no, she was “raising our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer”. Despite the swooning on social media for his Notebook-esque outpouring, I can’t help but feel that Eva Mendes, an award-winning actor in her own right, took one for the team and provided the emotional labour needed for Gosling to further his own career.
Gosling’s appreciation for his wife, may be genuine but it plays into structural inequality women face in the workplace, least of all Hollywood. Yes, Mendes has agency, and the decision to put her career on the back burner for the sake of her husband’s was hers, but why did she have to make that decision to begin with?
Earlier this year, Gosling told the Evening Standard that women are “better” and “stronger” than men. Putting women on a moral pedestal in this way excuses men from transgressions, such as not coming home and helping with care work.
Because some people have to complain about everything.
The author,
-Just has to shit on somebody’s parade.
-it’s the obama way.
-Trying to gain some relevance and attention to counter what his inner self tells him, he’s a an evil, loser!
I am now sure that the females of this country, in their quest for total equality, will happily and joyfully forgo any possible child support and/or alimony payments from those darn, despicable, samich loving men!
About what you’d expect from a Narjas Zatat. With that name, how did ze miss out on a job in the Obama administration?
I have to say, the kids may not be learning much in collidge today, but they’re freaking wizards at playing “Find the Hidden Grievance”.
Just the usual drivel produced by The Professional Grievance Industry®, one of the few growth industries during the 0bama Administration’s undoing of American Exceptionalism.
Total asswipe who understands nothing – “and the decision to put her career on the back burner for the sake of her husband’s was hers, but why did she have to make that decision to begin with?”
Uh, maybe she made the decision because she loves her guy and was willing to make the sacrifice for him. That’s what happily married couples do for each other. They support each other. But I guess since she wasn’t feminist enough to put her foot down and say no, this must be put down as a sexist assault on all women.
I’d hate to be the guy or the bottom in her life
Ok whoever wrote that must have been turned down by gosling when he asked them out. Which is odd, because he will sleep with anyone who smiles at him. Also, I read eva mendes was gay.
Hollyweird.
See, MJA, this Narjas Zatat–I love typing that–never even considers the beard service Ryan might be providing.