Anne Hathaway on slut shaming

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A friend of mine posted this article today and I thought MM would be interested:

feministing.com/2012/12/13/matt-lauer-is-gross-anne-hathaway-kicks-slut-shamings-ass/

I don't really follow celebrity gossip so I have no idea about the incident in question with Anne Hathaway (nor will I look up the photos), but she really sticks it to Matt Lauer in this interview and makes several statements about slut shaming and obsession with weight that made me want to stand up and cheer.

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If you don't want to click the link--after Matt Lauer asked about her "wardrobe malfunction" incident in a totally creeptastic way, she responded:

Well, it was obviously an unfortunate incident. Um, I think— It kinda made me sad on two accounts. One was that I was very sad that we live in an age when someone takes a picture of another person in a vulnerable moment and, rather than delete it, and do the decent thing, sells it. And I’m sorry that we live in a culture that commodifies sexuality of unwilling participants, which brings us back to Les Mis, because that’s what my character is—she is someone who is forced to sell sex to benefit her child, because she has nothing and there’s no social safety net. And I— Yeah, so, um, so let’s get back to Les Mis.

[ondaflipside]

Good for her. I heard about the incident. Papparazzi's are some of the worst.

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This sure reinforces my hate of Matt Lauer.

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[womet]

Good for her. I really like her.

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God, I love Anne Hathaway.

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I'm not sure that shaming a woman that accidently flashes her bits as she is getting in and out of a car is "slut shaming" but Matt Lauer is a pig.

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Dec 13, 2012 13:28:47 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

Oh man. I have always hated her. Now I feel like I can't anymore LOL.

Good for her.

I hated her until I read the recent Vogue article about her.

And this makes me like her more because her segue into Les Mis is kind of funny and smart.

A friend met her and her husband at a gay club on Monday night and he said that they're both really, really nice (he friended the husband in the bathroom before he knew who his wife was and then talked to her for a while because he thought the husband was so nice before he figured out who she was).

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Dec 13, 2012 13:29:40 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

This sure reinforces my hate of Matt Lauer.

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Yup. This and how skeevy he gets generally around pretty young actresses.

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Good for her. There are a lot of women in the world that don't mind showing their body, why does an accidental situation like hers need to be commercialized.

[SusanBAnthony]

I don't want to google for pics and give it more traffic, but has anyone who as already seen the pics say how bad they were? Is this a case where you are so zoomed in to the pic that you can't see much of anything anyway?

Not that it matters. I am just nosy like that.

And also, good for her. I have heard she is very nice and generous.

[takeonyou]

I dislike her. But now I find it harder to dislike her.

[limey]

Yuck. The way Matt posed the question was terribly creepy.

[Nonny]

Wow, I haven't watched the Today show, well, ever really beyond clips like this, but Matt Laure was being a slimy jackass to her. WTF, why are the producers OK with that?

I like that she also refused to talk about how she got so deathly skinny because she didn't want to promote unhealthiness in impressionable young women. She handled herself very gracefully given Matt's obnoxiousness.

[aspentosh]

Love her even more now!

[dexteroni]

Dec 13, 2012 13:59:07 GMT -5 gravytrain225 said:

I've loved her since her Princess Diary days.

Me too, and even more now. Good for her for speaking up. I used to like Matt Lauer years ago, but man, has he revealed himself to be a huge asshole. Gross.

I didn't know there was so much anti-Anne Hathaway sentiment. If you dislike her or did before this, what is it that you hate/d?

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Didn't a photographer take a picture of her vag? I like what she said but seriously, just wear underwear.

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Dec 13, 2012 14:12:31 GMT -5 dexteroni said:

Dec 13, 2012 13:59:07 GMT -5 gravytrain225 said:

I've loved her since her Princess Diary days.

Me too, and even more now. Good for her for speaking up. I used to like Matt Lauer years ago, but man, has he revealed himself to be a huge asshole. Gross.

I didn't know there was so much anti-Anne Hathaway sentiment. If you dislike her or did before this, what is it that you hate/d?

She seemed like she'd be annoying. Too type A or something? She seemed like a cross between Reese Witherspoon and Lea Michele.

[rosetyler]

I saw this yesterday, and honestly, hormones, but I teared up a little. And when she refused to go into detail about how she lost the weight, because she didn't want to glamorize it. She wasn't doing it to be "sexy", she was trying to look like she was dying.

I think she's lovely.

[protozoa]

She did such a fantastic job of redirecting that question. I'd be all like, derrrr... shut up.

[carfar]

I don't understand those who dislike her. I heart her, and her response.

[KaraOrNot]

I am impressed that she was able to come up w/ that response right on the spot.

I don't get the weight loss part. I thought she did talk about how she lost the weight. Here was an article from November. Or did they mean just during this interview?

ca.omg.yahoo.com/news/anne-hathaway-reveals-oatmeal-paste-diet-les-miserables-010032591.html

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I love her. And I like Matt Lauer. I have a thing for assholes, I guess. LOL.

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Love this! Thanks for sharing.

[sangria]

The only thing that ever turned me off about her was her backing out of Knocked Up because she was put off about the actual birth shot at the end.

That seemed pretentious to me. Other than that, I love her.

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Not a fan ofhers, but she handled the question well. ML is a freaking creep. Wish she would have gone at him after the first comment....gross

[GailGoldie]

ML is a loser. I have no idea why he is popular... this just makes me believe he's a creepy loser.

I like her - esp after Batman, and now even more.

[hbomdiggity]

Dec 13, 2012 13:36:41 GMT -5 SusanBAnthony said:

I don't want to google for pics and give it more traffic, but has anyone who as already seen the pics say how bad they were? Is this a case where you are so zoomed in to the pic that you can't see much of anything anyway?

Not that it matters. I am just nosy like that.

And also, good for her. I have heard she is very nice and generous.

I didn't see a zoomed in version, but i didn't think it was that bad. you really couldn't see much IMO - like you knew she wasnt wearing anything but it wasnt like zomg overgrown bush or pink taco.

[hannamaren]

The response was prepared, dont you think? She should have expected it to come up.
And I like her answer and I want to agree, but also, wear underwear or turn your body in a tight dress.

But I loved her reply to the weight loss question