The red carpet is a place where people (mostly women and the occasional
peacocking male) show off their best outfits and what
they exactly pay (or fire) their stylists for. While the red carpet is a great place to see people's outfit choices and jewelery and grossly over expensive accessories, it is a bit overkill making it three hours long. why in the world do I need to contemplate why someone chose those shoes with that dress for three hours? Why do I need to see the same (
ok, not the same but they all look the same) tuxedo march down a carpet. Why? Three hours of gaudy although sometimes breath taking dresses and gowns wears on me. It does not wear on me because I find it annoying to see the same emaciated faces gracing the ballroom. It's because we as women cannot be happy for
someone's success. God forbid someone is dressed up pretty for an event. I've heard so far at least eight different instances where the people I'm viewing the awards with have openly proclaimed their "hate" for a person. How can you hate someone? And for their outfit choice? Why? and more importantly,
how? Hilary Swank has been deemed by some people looking like a man or a horse. If people think Hilary Swank is ugly what hope does anyone else have? She's positively breath taking. She was impeccable in
Million Dollar Baby and
Freedom Writers. The Office even went as far as comparing who thought she was gorgeous. Oscar took the initiative to take her face and show how symmetrical it was. Hands down, no one should judge
anyone's beauty. Male or female, no one has the upper hand on anyone in the world of beauty and anatomical aesthetics. My friend and I talked about how if people, female people, the people who are supposed to empower us and make us feel good about ourselves are this harsh on one of the most beautiful people to ever exist, we have no hope.
Merryl Streep is wonderful actress. She has excelled in the roles of a single working mother who finds solace in the violin and bringing music to the schools of inner city Harlem in
Music of the Heart, she gave a body to one of the most popular Jane Austen characters in
Persuasions, and of course no one can forget the seething, biting and caustic magazine editor in
The Devil Wears Prada, and she struck fear into the hearts of anyone who attended parochial school in the sixties in
Doubt parallel to Amy Adams, she breathed new life into an
American icon Julia Child in
Julie & Julia alongside Amy Adams also. Recently, she appeared next to Alec Baldwin in
It's Complicated. Even if it was a pretty slow film, she did the best she could with the script and gave life to a very common real life role of many women who find themselves in complicated
positions with their husbands or recently divorced husbands. You as a person may not think
deserves an award for whatever particular reason but she has indeed earned her right to at least attend the award shows. Like it or not she can impersonate any regional diction; as Roberta
Guaspari she created the perfect flat tone of someone who moved along with her Navy husband to fort after fort. In
Doubt, she had a New York accent that made my father who was born and raised in the south Bronx shudder at the unfortunate memories he had of his private all boys school.
Merryl Streep like it or not has done an exceptional job giving life to characters for many, many, years and there's nothing complicated about that.
So, in short, people can have their opinions. It is most
definitely a free country. However, to feel as though someone doesn't deserve something someone has worked so hard for and that they don't deserve something based on their beauty, is simply, spiteful. Ladies, retract your claws, and proceed with caution because it won't be long until we're all on life's red carpet. Make sure your words are soft and sweet because you may have to eat them later.
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