Brad Pitt is Benjamin Button

new brad thread, ladies!

# 1295 What??? @ 11/06/2008 at 9:25 pm
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Tru dat.

Again, I say that any rapport Oprah cultivated with Pitt is gone. This Brad Pitt, that haters are criticizing, sounds a lot like the Brad Pitt from 1998.

And haters aren’t helping their cause by throwing Will Smith into the fray. I saw him on Oprah today and quite frankly, everything he said and did seems awfully familiar. He talked about how turning 40 makes him want to do more for others (sounds like BP in ‘04); he blatantly, and uncomfortably, flirted with Rosario Dawson (much like Travolta and Tyler Perry do with Oprah); he discussed how his kids negotiated the allowance his oldest son should get (much like Cruise); and gushed about his wife (like Cruise and Travolta).

No doubt that Will Smith have the wherewithall to begin an charitable endeavor with his own money, but how much you wanna bet that if he follows through on it, it will be in conjunction with Oprah?

Now, I am not discouraging anyone from loving Oprah - hell, it’s your funeral, but I do think that it’s telling that there is a definite divide in who (in terms of male actors) can and will make regular trips to Oprah.

The trouble with Sarah is not that she is a woman but she is the wrong type of woman. Let’s be clear, I think Palin achievement to Governor of Alaska is impressive for her but she is NOT a feminist.

She is not a woman who will fight for women’s rights. She’s in a party that is anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-pay-equality and generally bad for women. Having women in positions in power is crucial to empowering women more broadly and openly. But it is not synonymous with feminism. More importantly, when those women anti-feminist ideologies are in direct contrast to the very idealism of feminism it is “anti-feminism” not new.

This so called term being coined by the right-wing side, the “new feminism, is nothing more but the same old anti-feminist idealims. It is nothing more than the “same-old” labelled as “new.” Just because you say she is a governor with power does not make her a feminist. She is a dangerous mediocre woman in power. A barbie “maverik”, you betcha, hockey mom and

Femisism is more than just empowering, it is about women rights in all forms. Palin does not represent women in that way at all. She is about limiting our power and our resources.

Now I don’t agree with the way some of the RNC have been throwing “her under a bus” today. How hypocritical can you be, you selected her, courted her, formed her and paraded her around as the new right wing girl power, now you want to throw her out. I am not buying it, that is not cool.

guli @ 11/06/2008 at 3:31 pm #38

OT–this is for PT…ROTFLMAO–remember X and Huvane for years now made sure the Golden Globe 2003 X’s acceptance speech got deleted from all sites when she thanked everyone but Brad and Brad had this look on his face. Someone posted it again the end of May somehow on youtube, Huvane missed this one.. After I post it here it will probably disapper in a few days :lol: :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHH8-7ttu04&feature=related

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So, it’s good you have saved it, for future reference. There is nothing lewd, wrong, or anything bad for the viewers about this video. Huvane has no right to delete this.

1103 Passing Through @ 11/06/2008 at 3:17 pm # 1074 andamentothat @ 11/06/2008 at 2:33 pm

I don’t quibble over Palin’s right to run for anything. I don’t care about that, but an assertion that she’s the most popular governor based on some poll?
I read that she does have a very high approval rating in her state. 80%? I don’t know how it compares to all the other governors.

There’s roughly 650,000 people in Alaska and over 12 million in the state of NY. Saying she’s more popular than Paterson is just silly. That’s no way to measure anyone’s qualifications for office.
??? Surely the poll that matters is the poll in the state one is governor of. Why should SP be popular in NY or Paterson be popular in Alaska?

The fact is - the woman made quite a number of intellectually puzzling claims during her candidacy.
Biden has said some very silly things too, for somebody who has been a senator for a hundred years.

That’s far too similar to Dubya for me.
He was elected, twice!!! It proves that you don’t need to be Einstein to get elected.

If the election were Paterson versus Palin and the one with the most votes in their home state wins…then Palin gets blown out of the water unless half of NY votes for her. Half of one of the most populace states in the country…who’ve never heard of the woman and she’d have to convince them to vote for her. Chances are that more than half of that 50% aren’t going to like her or trust her for various reason, so she automatically loses the election. Putting it in those terms makes any kind of poplularity claim unrealistic.
Read this paragraph again! One candidate is from a state with a small population, and the other candidate is from a state with a large population, and the winner will be the one with the most votes in their home state. ??? I’m glad that kind of election will never happen. It’s so silly to put it in those terms. I know you said ‘If,’ but I don’t see why you even did that.

1297 first and last post @ 11/06/2008 at 9:29 pm OT for Orchid, Groundcontrol, Leo, AG, Dana
Re:904Orchid @ 11/06/2008 at 8:53 am 845 groundcontrol @ 11/06/2008 at 2:45 am
Groundcontrol, good post.
A different perspective…sent to me by an avid feminist NWPC activist.
“In 1977, Bella Abzug, the former congresswoman and outspoken feminist, said, “Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.”

In other words: women will truly have arrived when the most mediocre among us will be able to do just as well as the most mediocre of men.

By this standard, the watershed event for women this year was not Hillary Clinton’s near ascendancy to the top of the Democratic ticket, but Sarah Palin’s nomination as the Republicans’ No. 2.”

OpEd NYTimes No Ordinary Woman
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/opinion/26warner-1.html?_r=1&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
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Thanks for that link, FALP! I agree with Bella Abzug. I don’t believe HRC when she said that she won’t run again. I think she should.
Somebody on TV (must be a psychic) said that there will be three women competing in 2012.

1313 first and last post @ 11/08/2008 at 7:12 pm

Too many try to “peg” the concept into one niche which certainly cannot be done.
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Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of sexual equality. I don’t think we can accuse SP of being for women earning less than men for doing the very same thing, for example. IMO, people who say she is not a feminist should think again.

http://www.wikio.co.uk/video/560125
Expectations are high. I saw this ‘live’ on election day. Here it is on video. I hope he doesn’t disappoint this woman and I don’t know how many like her. She sounds so happy and expects a lot from BHO. He calls himself a ‘mutt.’ Well, let’s hope the ‘mutt’ can deliver.

Saw ‘W’ on TV by mistake. I mean I usually switch to another channel as soon as I see him, but I had my hands full. He sure has aged in office.

Hi Orchid,
Re: # 1314 Orchid @ 11/09/2008 at 12:44 am
http://www.wikio.co.uk/video/560125
“I hope he doesn’t disappoint this woman and I don’t know how many like her.”

wow, wow, wow, geez Orchid, what can I say about people like her…my only comment is “ignorance is truly bliss” for now, but that is what keeps her going and when she falls she hopefully will have a built in justification for her disappointment. You and I both could be really cruel here re: that video IMO was made to clearly make fun of her and people like her but I don’t think either of us are mean. However in “our reality,” it is a sad fact that there are many like her. One feels helpless in an attempt to either educate those like her resulting in no hope or to patronize them with a lie. No doubt IMO her line of thinking aka the blurred distinction between reality and what she wants to believe or hope is what got Obama elected plus the non-black guilt “thing”. I know of people who voted for BO just because he was black…end of decision.

Re: “Expectations are high”
they are soaring and will come down with a thud. Obama’s problem is that he was so effective with his “gospel approach” to speeches that he has left little leeway for disappointment and the only “out” is “blame.” But now that he is elected he deserves his chance and there has already been some positivity in the fact that a minority won the highest official level in the US although anyone in their right mind knows that “a President” doesn’t have total power other than persuasion to effect “change”…in fact there is the joke that for years Greenspan really ran the economics of the country and in turn greatly influenced the world’s economics and therefore the prosperity. He was jokingly referred to as the man with the real power.
Re: “Saw ‘W’ on TV by mistake. I mean I usually switch to another chan”nel as soon as I see him, but I had my hands full. He sure has aged in office. “
I remember saying the same thing about Clinton towards the end of his term.
Here we are again, Orchid, the only two left on this thread…it’s actually a good thing. I was holding on to that link for you but didn’t want to post it because the timing was never right and you know the blog police is ever-watching LOL. Plus we don’t seem to be on at the same time…btw do you live in the US or have you ever lived in the US? If not where do you reside? I know you are a very private person which I respect. I enjoy the fact that JP fans are from all over the world.