Ann Hathaway Actress

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway is a beautiful, doe-eyed, beguiling, ever-angieneu actress that is notoriously difficult to work with, but when she hears "Action," her angel side prevails and you just want to hug her.  She is the real thing in front of a camera and off she is a monster.

Such "schizophrenia" is not uncommon in highly talented people.  It is as if they have given something up that most of us have to purchase the ability to play in the theatrical way.  "The play is the thing," to the Anne Hatheways of the world and why we expect more from them is the question when they get up, particularly at awards ceremonies, and prattle idiocy to resounding applause.  It is truly embarrassing. 

At the Human Rights Campaign’s National Dinner Anne received the National Equality Award and told an audience she’s been frightened by the hatred of LGBT people that bigots spew but a speech given there by former Vice President Joe Biden went a long way to restoring her faith!  That has to be the first time anyone seriously said that about a speach by Joe Biden.

“I really needed this,” Hathaway said as she accepted the award: “I think I’m probably walking around like most people right now. I’m pretty shell shocked by what I see every day, what I hear everyday. And I really don’t like to admit this, but I get scared.”

HRC’s President Chad Griffin spoke earlier in the evening and including him in her gushing praise Anne said, “You guys just gave me my heart back.”  Pardon me while I vomit and I do not mean to be inappropriate, but only fully appropriate.

Then, speaking to the ladies, gentlemen and “gentlethem” in the crowd, Hathaway denounced white, straight and cisgender privilege without a definition or likely idea what she was saying with,  “It is important to acknowledge with the exception of being a cisgender male, everything about how I was born has put me at the current center of a damaging and widely-accepted myth,” and continuing she said:  “That myth is that gayness orbits around straightness, transgender orbits around cisgender, and that all races orbit around whiteness.”

Hathaway explained it was when she spent time with the LGBTQ community, noting her older brother is gay, that she learned to reject this myth saying,  “I appreciate this community because together we are not going to just question this myth, we are going to destroy it. Let’s tear this world apart and build a better one,” repeating the call for violence from the left.  A call that is increasing!

The high incidence of calls for violence against our duly elected President is, or should be, alarming to the people.  The actions of "The Resistance" and "ANTIFA" as well as the student bodies on college campuses, repression of conservative speakers give only a bare indication of the depth of the hatred of the "right" by the "left." 
Adults act like children when they are totally frustrated.  They reach for myths instead of facts.  They express hate instead of reason.  They say silly things like "everybody knows..."   

Everybody knows not one thing. There is always many who do not know your "facts."  It is the difference of opinion that makes politics as it is the way to resolve problems.  The left wails about "Our democracy..." when we have a representative republic, but "democracy" sounds enough like the "Democrat Party" to be subliminal in spite of the fact the "Democratic" party is such in name only.  "Super-delegates" put that claim to the lie.

That one appearance by Anne Hathaway, with all her talent and problems, could help us to bring these issues into focus is a hopeful thing as long as we insist that "free speech" really means the sharing of ideas and not the dominance of one philosophy.  For that we thank Anne Hathaway.

Adrian Vance