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Post by cubanitafresca on Jan 27, 2016 21:59:12 GMT -4
I know me too. That's about the third or 4th dog he's adopted over the years. I know he's smarmy and smug at times. But I honestly think at heart he's a really good guy. Anyone that loves animals as much as he does, just can't be all bad.
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Post by Mugsy on Jan 27, 2016 22:18:25 GMT -4
Kudos for them for taking that dog. I don't really see why people didn't want that dog, just because it had a bad leg? One woman said she couldn't bear to "look at that every day". I thought it was a cute dog, what am I missing?
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Post by Coffeecakes on Jan 28, 2016 19:30:50 GMT -4
Nothing. People are shallow assholes.
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Post by prisma on Feb 2, 2016 13:07:02 GMT -4
Amal Clooney is now on my Rational Hate List. I just can't reconcile "international human rights lawyer" with the pretty princessness of this. Too much cognitive dissonance. Michael K always says it better: Amal is going to have a dowager's hump by the time she's 50 if she doesn't work on her posture.
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Post by petitesuite on Feb 2, 2016 13:58:49 GMT -4
Amal Clooney is now on my Rational Hate List. I just can't reconcile "international human rights lawyer" with the pretty princessness of this. Too much cognitive dissonance. This both depresses me and is logically inconsistent as all get out. I don't even disagree that the dress looks a little juvenile, but her obligations/duties as a human rights lawyer include (one assumes) representing her clients to the best of her ability and looking dignified in the courtroom--I don't think 'not dressing in something she thinks is pretty while going to her husband's work event' is really on the list. This idea that because she has a serious career she has to look fusty (and, let's be real, if she were wearing sober black dresses all the time the response would be "she's Clooney's wife! Have some fun with it!," no "ah, yes, this is how a human rights lawyer should be dressing") is just ludicrous. In what other profession would you suggest that someone's harmless non-working activity is effecting their work life? I could maybe--maaaaaybeeeeee--see an argument that dressing like this might make it more difficult for her to be taken seriously in the legal world but 1) no one gets to her level without loving attention, I assume her colleagues are not shocked at how she acts in the spotlight and 2) she's an adult and that's her business.
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Post by Martini Girl on Feb 2, 2016 14:16:28 GMT -4
I admire her for her work, but I have a hard time reconciling the overt posing on the red carpet. She really seems to love the attention / camera. I guess at the end of the day, it's just my projections on how a human rights attorney should behave on the red carpet.
I like the dress, but it was cold last night in LA. She must have been freezing.
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Post by ladyboy on Feb 2, 2016 14:41:10 GMT -4
I just feel like she should dress more, adult, for lack of a better word, that dress is total Sweet 16, and also I would hope that someone who has clearly accomplished so much in her life in other realms isn't so desperately lapping up attention for her looks/attire. She could be shit hot - dressed fantastically, with a, "Yes, I'm smart as shit and I look like this" smile as she just took attention in stride, instead of Lea Michelle-ing all over the place.
Generally she just annoys me, as does smug Clooney, and I'm still waiting for his political bid.
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Post by thneed on Feb 2, 2016 14:43:53 GMT -4
Yeah, I don't get the complaint either. How dare a woman wear a fancy dress to a movie premiere! Burn the slut! She should wear the exact same thing to a movie premiere she wears to the UN, or else we won't think she's smart enough to deserve going to the UN!
It stems from this stupid and sexist belief that a woman can either be serious and intellectual and worthy of respect as long as she doesn't do anything to acknowledge she's attractive and sexual, or she can be a bimbo. Dress "serious" only ever talk about "serious" things, god forbid never do anything stereotypically feminine like enjoying getting dressed up, or enjoy being in a relationship. That puts her square into the ditz category. There's no such constraint on men, of course. George Clooney can show up to the premiere in his snazzy Armani tux and enjoy the hell out of glamorous parties and cool friends, and people still listen to him when he talks politics even though he's an actor.
It's like that Taylor Swift song about how the protagonist deserves the boyfriend because she wears sneakers and T-shirts and the slutty slut slut cheerleader isn't worthy to be a girlfriend because she's "girly" and therefore stupid. I thought people outgrew that by the time they aged out of the Taylor Swift demographic.
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Post by prisma on Feb 2, 2016 16:02:27 GMT -4
Okay--what I said came off sounding way harsher than I intended. I think the "rational hate list" really comes from (as ladyboy put it) the fact that she's "so desperately lapping up attention for her looks/attire." Someone on another site said that Amal is thirstier than all of George's former girlfriends combined, and that feels absolutely true. It's not that I don't think she should wear a pretty dress, it's that she's so transparently preening for the cameras. I believe that skirt length with that silhouette is waaaay too young for her--that's Kiernan Shipka's dress. I guess, because of her professional accomplishments, I want to categorize Amal with people like Cate Blanchette and Michelle Obama--who clearly love fashion and do it with class. It's the thirsty "Tee hee...look at me!" posing and the Lena Dunham pee pee posing that absolutely drives me crazy.
I was *not* trying to imply that she shouldn't dress up and be/feel pretty or that she's a slut.
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Post by Ladybug on Feb 2, 2016 16:28:24 GMT -4
I think her personal taste in most of her "off duty" outfits is a little juvenile for a woman of her age and status. I like her lawyer clothes. This dress looked like it was Valentine's theme and I'm not into it. Maybe she wanted to dress girly-girly and twirly-twirly, but I didn't care for it.
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