re: “Good for her wanting to be with her child.”
Yes - I totally agree with you. What angers me about some Freepers (not you ConservativeStatement) is they often rightly mock celebrities for their shallowness, naivety, and hypocracy - but then when one of them “gets it” and admits publicly that they had a wrong view of the world, and give excellent reasons why they changed - they still get dissed by the same Freepers who were trashing them earlier about “not getting it”.
Yes, Barrymore is finally understanding the obvious, but like she said, she was raised, along with an entire generation of other women, with this lunacy of “women can have a career and success outside of the home and her family, and raise great kids, too”. She repudiates that idea publicly, admits she saw that this was a fallacy, which although it may be obvious to you, unfortunately it’s not to many younger women because of all the crap they’ve been fed for the past 50 years - then some of you diss her anyway because she didn’t see the truth like you.
Also, just because some people could care less what celebrities think, unfortunately many others do and they have wide influence. As you know most of that influence is negative - why not at least give the girl her due for speaking up against the grain of her generation when she gives the truth?
THAT attitude I just don’t understand.
I think we agree there are too many people who gets their news and opinions from places such as Kelly Ripa, the View and others who fawn over celebs.
Great post! It took guts for Barrymore to say what she did and to go against the Hollywood crowd. I’m happy she spoke out.