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| Jennifer Aniston's Legs Will Make Us Forget |
On Thursday, Superstar Actress Jennifer Aniston appeared on Regis and Kelly as part of her publicity tour for the movie The Switch, and in the process of talking about how she was dressing to look like Barbra Streisand for her Harper's Bazaar photo shoot, said "I play dress up. I do it for a living, like a retard."
What she should have said was "I play dress up. I do it for a living, like a little girl."
The offhand comment was met with a collective polite chuckle from the audience, and no rebuke from her hosts, but the fuse was lit for what's become a much-chatted and blogged-about error in her use of a term that degrades special needs people.
It got the attention of Special Olympics and its campaign called "End The Word," which advocates for the end of the use of the "R-Word." @EndThe Word issued this tweet on Twitter:
Sad to hear Jennifer Aniston use the #Rword on @Regis_and_Kelly. Another illustration how pervasive the word is in our society.
11:59 AM Aug 19th via web
And it went from there as that tweet and others blasting Jennifer Aniston were sent around the Internet.
That somehow turned into a mindless blog by the LA Times asking why Jennifer Aniston is still a movie star, given that she's not had a movie with a memorable, Oscar-winning performance? This blogger's answer to that mean-spritted post is that Jennifer Aniston's legs will literally hold her up against any reputation damage her silly and unfortunate comment may have.
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Loves To Flash Legs to David Letterman
Just look at the photos of Jennifer Aniston flashing her gams to David Letterman on The Late Show. Her skirt's so short it might as well not be there. That, folks, is her selling point, and since someone's going to get pissed off about that (Yeah!), I'll remind them her legs and looks were what got her the Harper's Bazaar photo shoot.
The R-Word Comment Was Dumb, But...
Hey, the R-Word comment Jennifer made was just plain dumb. But here's a chance for "Jen Air" (as in occasional, lovable airhead) to right that wrong by helping the Special Olympics as a spokesperson.
The fact is, we're going to pay attention to Jennifer anyway; it might as well be for the right reasons.
Hmmm. "Jen Air." I kinda like that.
Eh? It's a word most of the US still uses, and has little to do with actual, clinical retardation. Is it bad to call yourself an idiot, because some people actually *are* idiots? I think not. I don't happen to have any major mental or medical problems, but if I were, for example, a cripple I would hardly care if a public figured made some joking application of that term to himself. People who would object need to get over themselves. There are a lot of people without handicaps that have harder lives than you. Deal.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who DOESN'T have an intellectual disability or a family member with it....how do you know what your life would be like or what you would or would not care about....you don't know what it was to have therapy every single day or medical appointments or to deal with ridicule and insults?
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