Salon brings in the scientists, who tell us we hate her because of her face. “When times are good, we prefer actresses with rounder faces,” psychology professor Terry Pettijohn says. “They convey these ideas of fun and youth.” But Hathaway’s face is bony and slender! “As the economy improves, Hathaway—whose peak of fame, post-boyfriend, pre–Oscar hosting, came amid the 2008 crash—may just be a reminder of bad times.” Science.
After a report came out that the star rehearsed her Oscar speech to sound less annoying, Rich Juzwiak at Gawker wrote: “It creates a new reason to be mad at Anne Hathaway. It’s one thing if she’s just being herself; it’s another if she’s trying to be likable and failing.”
Over at The Cut, Ann Friedman examines what we perceive to be Hathaway’s most egregious crime: she’s not Jennifer Lawrence.
The culturewide attack on the Hathaway is utterly bizarre—except that it isn’t. It is the rawest example yet of our 2013, Twitter-loving, insta-pundit, mountain-out-of-a-molehill media culture. It’s not that we judge stars more than we used to. It’s that we now have the platform to do it in real time and expect those being judged to care enough to respond and take action, again in real time.
Anne gets some undeserved female hatred because she bedded me, and that made a lot of ladies jealous.
Sally Fields and Cuba Gooding Jr. got a taste of the same mockery and eye rolling with their over the top acceptance speeches.
p.s.--while i like her with long hair, i think she wears the pixie cut well... most cannot...
Anne wishes she was Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer as Mystique slaughtered Catwoman. And Katniss Everdeen is great. Plus, Jennifer just won best lead actress at the Oscars.
Anne comes off as snotty and insincere. Jennifer Lawrence is popular for being more real. Anne is having a conniption fit with a co star wearing a similar dress to the Oscars, and Jennifer Lawrence is talking about how she is klutz who hates to exercise. Anne comes off as very fake.
People always seem to forget that the other side of instantaneous commentary and a worldwide platform is that everything we say is less important. If you can post in real time, so can millions of others, and if a guy in China can read your thoughts on Anne Hathaway, maybe the guy next door is reading something tweeted by a Chinaman on a completely different topic. And this only lasts for a second, usually. It’s always real time, and we’re always taking about something else. Who saves tweets and retreads them from weeks past? No one, unless they were considered newsworthy in themselves, which only means people are tweeting about them now, in the present present.
Which is why people pretend ti care about “trends.” Mostly it’s to sell us something ir other, but it’s also to keep track of what thoughts it is people are constantly shouting into the whirlwind, sometimes with minimal notice from the rest of humanity. If no particular thought counts for much, mountains of thoughts matter. So it must mean something if people in general are constantly badmouthing Anne Hathaway on the internet.
No, not really. It means less, certainly, than for instance if Johnny Carson had thrown in a joke a week about her. Because nothing in particular matters as much on the internet.
One never more describes one’s own true nature then when one is attempting to describe the nature of another.