This explains Ryan's fury !!
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Summary
Why was Ryan Reynolds the only heterosexual man in Taylor Swift's music video, You Need to Calm Down? And why does he keep reposting other gay celebrities kissing each other on social media? Plus, the judge rules again on a motion from one of the insurance companies who is suing the Wayfair parties.
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Why was Ryan Reynolds the only heterosexual man?
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In Taylor Swift's music video, You Need to Calm Down.
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I'm Testi Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on the illusion.
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I wonder why no media outlet picked up this interview with Steve Sarowitz.
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Steve Zarowitz is the billionaire backer of the Wayfair parties and Justin Baldoni and he came out
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of a podcast talking about how this experience has been for him personally and for the other
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parties involved and no one wrote about it. In the meantime Blake Lively is radio silent while
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Ryan Reynolds is obsessed with posting reels with himself and other male celebrities talking about
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kissing them. Very interesting. And it begs the question, why was Ryan Reynolds the only
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heterosexual man in Taylor Swift's music video? You need to calm down. Yeah, that's right. What
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was Taylor Swift trying to tell us? Also, there is this very interesting article talking about
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how Ryan Reynolds is the wife guy and how Blake Lively is his brand. After reading this, it makes
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so much sense why Ryan Reynolds acted the way that he did. Why he was desperate to protect his
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brand, meaning his wife Blake Lively. Let's also look at how this body expert explained Ryan's
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body language when he's talking about his wife compared to when he was talking about soccer.
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Have a wild guess what made him most excited. And the judge has ruled again. This time he ruled
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on a motion from one of the insurance companies who's suing the Wayfair parties. There are actually
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four active lawsuits involving the Wayfair parties and different insurance companies.
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What a headache. Okay, so let's get into it. As I mentioned the other day, Ryan Reynolds
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Gin Distillery in Portland just closed down. And guess what? Ryan decided to remove from his
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Instagram profile that he's the owner of Aviation Gin. Someone on Reddit saved his profile and
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compared his biography or whatever the little description section here from May 15 of this
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year till now and points out that Ryan Reynolds removed that he's an owner of Aviation Gin and
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mint mobile i wonder why he did that there's still a link to mint mobile but why did he remove that
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he's an owner of aviation gin and mint mobile is that something that they suggested saying hey
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you're not a good brand ambassador at the moment could you just remove that you're the owner of
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the company if he still is i thought he sold both of those companies by the way but interesting that
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these things are happening at the same time. The same user on Reddit also points out that he lost
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300,000 followers in the space of two months. That's quite a lot, I would say. But let's look
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at these reels that he keeps posting lately. As I mentioned so many times here, what Ryan is doing
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now is reminding or trying to remind everyone that he is still a big A-list star and that he's
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hanging out with a lot of other A-listers and that he has a great sense of humor and I find it a bit
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interesting how he just like a week ago or maybe two weeks ago it is now that he posted this reel
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with Andrew Garfield where they are interviewing each other it was an actor-on-actor interview
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organized by Variety and Ryan wanted to go down the memory lane with Andrew Garfield and talk
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about how they plan to kiss each other if one of them won the Golden Globes instead of kissing
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their wives. I don't know if both were nominated here or the backstory there, but Ryan thought this
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was so funny, so he posted or reposted that interview. They call your name and you win.
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Don't kiss your wife, just kiss me. And of course, Gosling, who absolutely did not deserve it.
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um uh and i love that we were just sitting there we're just like yeah let's just do it
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and now a couple of days ago again he reposted an interview with himself and also hugh jackman
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they were appearing on chicken shop dates this is weirdly the best date i've ever had yeah i was
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thinking that too did he try and kiss you no he didn't he tried to kiss me as i was walking
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It's like he wants us to see him kissing or wanting to kiss other men.
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He also reposted that he got kisses from dog pool as well.
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But I do find it interesting why he keeps reposting this video
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And then Tanya, thank you so much for sending me this video.
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I don't remember seeing Ryan Reynolds in this Taylor Swift video.
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And in this music video, Taylor basically only had iconic gay figures,
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transgenders and drag queens dressed up as celebrities.
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There are no other heterosexual men in this music video.
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and all of a sudden you see Ryan Reynolds sitting there painting from the background and he peeks
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out and he looks at the crowd or whatever he's doing. So as Tanya was pointing out here, why is
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Ryan the only hetero man in this music video? And I have the same question. Did Ryan know that all
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the others in this music video would be gay or transgender or drag queens dressed up as celebrities
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and he would be the only hetero man or did Taylor just not tell him that but anyways I do think that
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it is a bit strange that Ryan keeps just posting photos of himself and Hugh Jackman and Rob Mack
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and never pictures of Blake Lively anymore it's only him and the lads hanging out and now he
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started posting reels and posts talking about kissing these men as well I don't know let me
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know what you think about this while talking about that uh thank you Vesna for sending me this video
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this was quite interesting so this is Sadie the prime minister of behavior she calls herself here
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and she went through that interview that Ryan Reynolds did a couple of months ago when he was
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on stage in front of a live audience and he was asked shortly about how he feels about this whole
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legal feud and drama and about Blake and how they basically have been handling this situation
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together as a family. And Sadie here looked very closely at Ryan Reynolds' body language and his
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tone of voice when he was talking about his wife and compared it to when he was talking about
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soccer or football. I want you to take a look at how his face is when he says how proud he is
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of his wife. I want to compare this with when he's talking about his football and the joy that that
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brings him it's been one of the love great loves of my life truly rex was just one of these things
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the warmth in his face when he's talking about his sports team versus the look on his face when
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he's talking about his wife i think that this is extremely revealing and it's just very
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interesting to me to see his body language is betraying everything that he's saying in this
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moment he also has a side eye look at the interviewer and if I was the interviewer I would
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actually probably feel very uncomfortable in this moment just because of how he's looking at him
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yeah isn't that quite interesting how his voice got higher he got so much more engaged
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when he talked about soccer than when he talked about Blake she also mentioned how he was
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distancing himself from his wife by never mentioning her name. He would just say my wife
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or he would just call her a person. I've never been more proud of a person who has all this
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integrity, whatever. And then he's just sitting there waiting for the public to applaud him when
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he is putting her on this pedestal and saying that he's never been more proud of her and he's
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never met anyone with more integrity in everything that she does in life. I mean this interview was
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so cringe and also of course we remember that priceless quote that he had here saying that
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no one really knows what's going on here. People have no idea what's really going on. He's really
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trying to drive home the idea that nobody knows what's going on in reality. That does a few things
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at once. It dismisses any outside analysis or criticism because the assumption becomes you
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don't have the full picture it also implies that there are some hidden layer or truth that would
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change everything without ever having to explain what that is so now you can't really challenge
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him because he's positioned everyone else as being on the outside looking in i've obviously spoken
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about this interview before here on my channel but i thought it was interesting to mention it again
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now that i saw this body language expert talk about it yeah if you remember a while back i had
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two insiders on my show and they were completely convinced that Blake and Ryan's marriage was just
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arranged. It was just a facade and they don't even live together. But I don't know, it's all alleged
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and we just have to guess or keep on guessing. Let's talk about how Ryan is the ultimate wife
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back into it i think someone sent me this article and now i don't remember who it was so i'm sorry
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if i'm not giving you credit here i read this article again this morning i read it last week
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too and i was like this is really really spot on it explains so many things so why ryan reynolds
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behaved the way that he did during and after and before this lawsuit so here it says the problem
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with famous men becoming wife guys ryan reynolds reaction to blake lively at the met so they're
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talking about the met gala here made for much internet gushing but there's something disingenuous
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about the overall trends so i'm guessing at this point there was a viral moment where ryan was
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looking at blake admiring her in her whatever dress she was wearing at the met gala and people
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were like oh my gosh look at him he's so proud of his wife what a great husband he is so this
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article explains what a wife guy is i've never heard that expression before it says a wife guy
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wants everyone to know that they are comfortable stepping aside to let the limelight shine on their
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stunningly beautiful wives and it says here that as a self-appointed hype man they're maintaining
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a stoic and sturdy presence beside their wives on the red carpet. The wife guy's identity is often
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not just a personal choice, but a professional gambit. It began as an internet phenomenon
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referring to men who turned their wives into their own personal brands. Sounds familiar.
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Thereby advancing their own careers in the process. But it had its roots in famous men
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igniting the wife guy olympic torch who continued to prowl the zeitgeist whilst carrying it high
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above their heads they're also mentioning tom cruise in this article how he was jumping on
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oprah winfrey's couch when he got married to katie holmes because he was so in love with her and that
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is kind of when this trend started according to this article here but mainly they're talking about
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Ryan Reynolds here and it says Reynolds has built an image of himself as a wife guy pro. Anytime he's
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in the news or in a meme it is because of his irreverent humor at his wife's expense meant to
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convey that his wife brings out his best and wittiest side and slowly wife guys in the public
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eye melt into one with their wives unable to detach their personality from that of someone
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married to goddesses on earth this while we know nothing about their wives in question at all why
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the men continue boosting their own celebrity and feminist credentials to boots this article i have
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to say is from 2022 but i think it's so spot on explaining who ryan reynolds is here they continue
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here to say but the thing about wife guys is that they call attention to their wives almost as if
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they're displaying her. The key aspect of a wife guy's branding is that it is his girl.
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He, most importantly, has her. In trying to subvert norms around heterosexual coupledom,
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wife guys end up upholding the oldest trope of them all, the trophy wife. They tweet about it,
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they post about it, they post with it, and do all the things that it's seemingly to draw attention
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to her, drawing attention only to themselves. Basically saying, look what I married. And they're
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saying here that there can, after all, be no bigger feminist than a guy who worships the ground his
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wife walks on. Moreover, it is now in these men's power to define which wives are worth wife-guying
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over. God forbid their wives deviate from controversial beauty norms in some way. You will
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see their husbands award themselves husband of the year for loving them not despite but because of
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it so yeah that also makes sense why Ryan Reynolds got so furious over the fat shaming coming from
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Justin Baldoni because he took it as an offense to himself that Justin didn't think his wife
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was perfect that her body wasn't perfect enough of course we all know that that is not really
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what happened but that's what happened in brian reynolds mind and they're ending it here by saying
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it also makes sense that we don't know much about what wife guys do beside love their wives
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excessively do wife guys do the dishes at home do they fold their clothes and in the mega rich
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celeb version do they manage the people who do these chores do they manage the managers
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from the perspective of mere mortals it's unclear what super famous couples domestic life entails
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and how much of it wife guys participate in so basically the wife becomes the stage
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and the wife guy becomes the star and this is exactly what ryan reynolds has done he has built
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his public identity around how he worships his wife so what happens if someone challenges the
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image that he has created about his wife meaning the image that he has created about himself well
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he has to come out and defend that he's built this million dollar brand out of Blake Lively as his
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wife so of course he has to do anything in his power to protect that and of course because Blake
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became so unpopular Ryan was terrified that it was going to rub off on him and it did but not
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because Blake herself was so unpopular but basically because Ryan Reynolds entered the
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stage himself and got himself involved in all the drama so as this article mentioned when Blake
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Lively was walking the red carpet at the Met Gala and the headlines were about how Ryan Reynolds was
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worshipping her and the way he looked at her the headlines weren't anymore about Blake Lively
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looking beautiful at the Met Gala, it was all about Ryan watching her, admiring her. So while
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Blake was getting a lot of attention, Ryan got the admiration, he got the validation, and he got the
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reputation in Hollywood as the perfect husband. I did a little research on this because I find
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the psychology around this really fascinating. So in psychology, this is called identity protection.
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so you're protecting the image that made millions of people basically love you through you loving
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your wife and i think we've seen this so clearly on what was important for ryan when he was trying
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to protect his wife he was going after everyone in the industry as you might remember he sent
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really threatening texts to wme to sony saying hey why aren't you out there protecting my wife
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from all this slander online it was never about protecting her from feeling unsafe on the set
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it was only about protecting her public image because that was also a threat to himself and
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i think this is also why ryan was attacking justin baldoning for being a feminist because
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the way he sees it he is the ultimate feminist himself because he worships his wife and to him
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Justin is just a fake feminist because he doesn't worship women the way he does he only respects
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them and he only listens to them and for Ryan that's not a real feminist and of course that's
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also why he had to mock Justin Baldoni and create a character around him attacking him
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for being a feminist in the Deadpool movie yeah it makes so hard sense to me that Blake is Ryan's
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brand it's all about branding it's all about monetizing his brand and he wanted Blake to be
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a successful brand to have her own brands which never succeeded as you know because Blake's
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businesses kept failing that of course really bothered Ryan and now one of his major brands
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has failed his wife Blake is no longer valuable in Hollywood she's not longer valuable for brands
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so what is he going to do about this let me know what you think don't you think this makes a lot
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of sense. Anyways, let's look at these other lawsuits here. I'll go quickly through them to
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just give you an overview of what's going on here because there's so many lawsuits and I didn't know
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until this morning that there were actually four lawsuits from four different insurance companies
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trying to deny the wayfair parties to get their attorney's fees and costs covered. So one of them
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The three others, the Wayfair parties are suing them.
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So a few days ago, Judge Lyman actually ruled on one of these,
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a motion to dismiss from Harko National Insurance in New York.
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And the judge said that that lawsuit can move forward.
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And they're basically claiming that because the Wayfair parties had a policy with them
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And they're claiming that the Wayfair parties knew
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at that point when they renewed this contract with them
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And they said that they didn't inform them of that.
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and because of that they refuse to pay their legal fees other insurance companies are in
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california one is called new york marine for some reason still in california though the wayfair
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parties are suing them because they denied them insurance coverage they're also suing qbe insurance
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and lloyd underwriters so four companies are refusing to give them any money and the three
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other companies here are using the fact that justin baldoni and jamie heath were accused of
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sh so the new york marine and qbe are arguing both of them arguing the same thing saying the
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lawsuit alleges workplace sh retaliation and related employment claims and our policies
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exclude claims erasing out of employment related misconduct therefore we don't have to provide
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coverage so they're basically saying here that they're not covering any employment related
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sh harassment or retaliation claims very important though this does not mean that they believe anyone
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is guilty here i'm sure blake lively supporters are trying to going to try to spin it in that
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direction but that has nothing to do with it as you know if you had experiences with insurance
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companies they never want to pay they always make it really really difficult so let's see what
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happens here thankfully as i mentioned yesterday justin baldoni and the wayfair parties have a lot
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of support from steve sarowicz who is a billionaire who has backed them throughout this i'm sure they
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already paid a lot of these bills but i hope for their sakes that the insurance companies have to
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pay this because if they get away with this then it's going to be even harder in the future to get
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any coverage from insurance companies if you get sued for sh and i think again hollywood is going
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to try and protect themselves from these kind of scenarios in the future and if they know that
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someone like blake libel could come along and start suing people in the movie or the director
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of the movie for sh and their insurance wouldn't cover that what are they going to do in the future
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this is going to be really interesting to see how hollywood is going to navigate all of this
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knowing what could happen because this is obviously worst case scenario here if you meet
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someone with like blake who has almost unlimited resources trying to destroy another person or
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several people yeah that's not ideal anyways that's it for me today you guys thank you so
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