Aubrey Plaza’s baby news highlights the misogyny of assuming we know when a woman is ready to move on

          • Schmuppes@lemmy.today
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            18 days ago

            Also, the whole “she was cheating” thing is based in the assumption that they were living a mutually agreed upon monogamous relationship. While that may very well be the “norm” even today, we’re living in the 21st century. Things have changed since the 1950’s.

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    18 days ago

    Consider, also, the assessment of a random comment on Entertainment Tonight’s Instagram post: “I think going from 10 year partnership/marriage to separated in Sept. of 2024 to partner dies in early 2025 to pregnant with new man in early 2026 is a crazy order of events — either some cheating happened/overlap or she has not grieved through what has fallen apart and is just distracting herself . . . A year is not enough time to grieve and work through a separation, death, new relationship and pregnancy — obviously.”

    Those people would only be happy if she threw herself on her ex partners funeral pyre, and even then they’d complain she didn’t do a barrel roll.

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    19 days ago

    Bringing up Erika Kirk is both appropriate and inappropriate in my opinion, lol. Her behavior after Charlie’s death was what made many people raise an eyebrow. I just heard about it and thought people were overreacting until I saw some of her speeches in the wake of her husband’s death.

    Don’t have any opinions on the rumors about her and Vance, but what did weird me out was how fake and performative her behavior and words were. People can grieve in many ways, but all I saw was a business woman who was trying to build a career on her husband’s corpse. Would have felt the same way if the roles were reversed and the husband of some online celebrity used his wife’s demise as a stepping stone to promote himself on a big platform. It was fucking weird and I will always think it was fucking weird.

    As for Aubrey Plaza, I don’t know her, but if she was heading for divorce - which sounds like it, then whatever. The only people who care about shit like that are losers.

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      17 days ago

      Sometimes I wonder if Charlie Kirk wouldn’t have been all for what his now-widow has been doing, given how much of a ghoul the man was in life.

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        17 days ago

        I’m not sure, because he seemed to really despise people like Nicki Minaj, whom Erika decided to platform during his memorial tour or whatever the hell all that weird stuff was, lol.

        Then again, I don’t have the grifter mindset, so I don’t know where these kinds of people’s true values are if you take money out of the equation. :b

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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    19 days ago

    “Shortly after that came the news that Courtney Love, the most famous and most reviled widow of my Gen-X lifetime, is the subject of an upcoming documentary that will almost certainly reanimate the rumor that she, too, was behind her husband’s death”

    Reminds me of this great song