Natalie Portman has said she won’t get married until gay people are allowed to. This is supposed to be a really clever thing for her to do – but it somehow seemed much cleverer when Brad Pitt did it a year ago and therefore it’s much less clever now. The reality is, she doesn’t want to get married so she spins it a little and gets some press. The base of the issue is a whole lot of nothing. Here’s the quote:
I’m not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it.
The weird part about this is that it’s like these celebrities are running for public office. Do they really need to court the gay vote? No one is voting. For Portman to be relevant to gay people she needs to be a lot more hectic than “doesn’t want to get married”. She needs to get really high maintenance and knock over some stuff in a store and the tell someone off with her hand on one hip. That hand on the hip thing is kind of a black thing to do but usually black women can be divas without being as neurotic as white women. White women aren’t usually gay icons unless they’re emotional wrecks at some point.
So far we’ve seen nothing THAT freaky from Portman. Well, she shaved her head but whatever. That’s been done better by others way before she did it. [source]
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