Posted on 03/04/2011 1:29:18 AM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
The last time NewsRealBlog checked in on Natalie Portman, the actress was selling some new, decidedly-PC ideas about sex and love. But since her appearance at the Academy Awards accepting the Best Actress award for Black Swan, Portman has found herself on the other side of the feminist divide. LifeNews.com reports that part of her speech didn’t sit well with everyone:
After thanking fellow nominees, her parents, and the directors past and present who guided her career, Portman saved her concluding praise for “my beautiful love,” dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied.The problem, according to Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams:
Then, as if to underscore how the bright and promising career and the accolades she’s received up to that very moment paled in comparison, a visibly pregnant Portman thanked Millepied for giving her “the most important role of my life.”
“At the time, the comment jarred me, as it does every time anyone refers to motherhood as the most important thing a woman can possibly do,” she wrote today. “But the reason why didn’t hit until I saw the ever razor sharp Lizzie Skurnick comment on Twitter today that, ‘Like, my garbageman could give you your greatest role in life, too, lady.’”
“When you’re pregnant, especially for the first time, there are a lot of amazed and awed moments in between the heartburn and insomnia. But is motherhood really a greater role than being secretary of state or a justice on the Supreme Court? Is reproduction automatically the greatest thing Natalie Portman will do with her life?” Williams wondered […]
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the garbage man quip... shows exactly how elitist these people are.
Yes. She's an actress by trade.
Lizzie’s garbageman has better taste than to help Lizzie get pregnant.
I couldn’t agree more! A woman SHOULD be married to ‘the beautiful love of her life’ and father of her child.
Who is your daddy, Mary Elizabeth Williams?
Are you sure?
Saying parenthood is your most important role in life is an acknowledgment that there are things bigger and more important than yourself.
Nothing one person can achieve in their time can surmount the possible accomplishments of their posterity in the future.
...... IF you do it right!
“Nothing one person can achieve in their time can surmount the possible accomplishments of their posterity in the future... if you do it right”.
Fabulous! Personally I believe that being a parent is the greatest job in the world. Hopefully when all is said and done, I will have raised three beautiful children into productive, caring, law abiding adults. Granted, I don’t have plaques on my wall but I do have colorful drawings on my fridge. I don’t drive a fancy car but a used SUV with goldfish, M&M’s, and old fries in it. My wardrobe isn’t from New York but from Penney’s. When the Lord calls me Home, I can go knowing that I left the world a little better. “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”. IMHO
Yes.
Later he is talking about money and his career and fame and fortune and he concluded “I don't need that sh*t! I got VALUABLE things - like a necklace made out of macaroni!”
Truer words have rarely been spoken!
She’s just as idiotic as Huckster on Portman, just from the other side of the fence.
Jealousy is a very ugly thing.
I’d bet good money that the authoer of this also hates Sarah Palin for not aborting Trig, although they might not put it that way exactly.
LOL! It was bad.
I just don’t get the whole “Natalie Portman is hot” thing....she ain’t my bag.....
I like this quote.
Me too! The priorities of some people are out of whack.
What are the chances Portman and Millepied will be hands-on parents, as opposed to their hired help doing the bulk of childcare?
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