Matt Walsh Roasts Dumb Celebrities
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Summary
Anne Hathaway cancels her appearance on The View this week, and Jessica Chastain calls her out for being a hypocrite. But what does that have to do with abortion? And what does it mean for the future of women's reproductive rights?
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My own personal experience with abortion, and I don't think we talk about this enough,
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I'm very excited about this daily cancellation.
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I finally get a chance to cancel Anne Hathaway.
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I've held a grudge against this woman ever since my wife, early in our marriage,
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forced me to go to the theater with her, with her mom and her sister, to watch Les Miserables.
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Every actor in the film was deeply and painfully annoying.
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They sang the entire time from start to finish.
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Yet even amidst all of that, Anne Hathaway managed to be irritating and insufferable
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on a level that even Russell Crowe's blubbering off-key performance couldn't reach.
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A couple of years later, I went with much higher hopes to go see Interstellar.
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And there was Anne Hathaway again, helping to ruin the film with her cringy, saccharine speeches
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I wanted to see a movie about deep space exploration.
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Instead, I got no aliens, only a little bit of space exploration,
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in exchange for a lot of scenes of Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain sulking and whining
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The only thing that would have made it worse is if they started singing.
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All that to say, this cancellation is a long time coming.
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Hathaway's appearance this week on The View has, I think, finally provided me
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The Devil Wears Prada didn't turn 16 this summer.
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I am struck by the fact that the young female characters in this movie built their lives
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and careers in a country that honored their right to have choice over their own reproductive
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Why was it important to you to write something like that?
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And you mentioned the Devil Wears Prada turning sweet 16.
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Some 16-year-old's life has been irrevocably changed because of the current overturning
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And what its implications are and what it means to live in a country that puts us in this position.
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This is not a moral conversation about abortion.
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This is a practical conversation about women's rights.
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And by the way, human rights, because women's rights are human rights.
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And the freedom that we all need to be able to choose and build our lives and have access
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She says that it grieves her to consider that the young female characters in Devil Wears Prada
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would not be able to have abortions if the film was set in the current day.
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It is, to begin with, extremely strange to worry about the availability of abortion for
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Also, again, not having seen it, my impression is that the movie has a rather dim view of selfish,
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So part of the moral of the story, from what I understand, is that there's more to life
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Yet Hathaway's takeaway is that women need to be able to kill their children so they can
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There seems to be a little bit of a disconnect here.
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She also speaks about reproductive destiny, which, of course, is exactly the sort of asinine,
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hackneyed phrase you would expect Anne Hathaway to use when discussing abortion.
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Um, it's, it's, it's not the sort of wording that I would ever choose, but since she brought
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Once a woman has conceived a child, what is her reproductive destiny?
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The word destiny implies a force outside of the individual, a message, a mission from beyond
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Call it nature, call it the universe, call it, as I do, God.
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What is her destiny now that she has conceived the child in her womb?
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Is it her destiny to partake in the joy and beauty and fulfillment of motherhood?
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Or is it her destiny to pay some abortionist to kill her baby and throw his body into a
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Indeed, how could it be anyone's reproductive destiny to reject their reproductive capacity
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and violently destroy the human life that they have reproduced?
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To call such a choice reproductive destiny seems bizarre.
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Hathaway also claims that she's not interested in having a moral conversation about abortion,
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but rather a practical conversation about women's rights.
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Well, except that a conversation about rights is automatically a conversation about morality.
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You cannot extract the concept of morality from the concept of human rights.
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A practical conversation, a real practical conversation, is one that is not concerned with
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That isn't to say they don't exist, but rather that they exist in the moral realm.
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They don't exist physically, practically, like a chair or a rock or the ocean exists.
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So to say that you don't want to talk about morality, you just want to talk about human rights,
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The minute you bring them up, you have entered into the moral realm.
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But that's not where Anne Hathaway wants to be because she knows that she can't actually
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But she had more to say, and it only gets dumber from here, so let's continue.
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Without going into too many details, my own personal experience with abortion, and I don't
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think we talk about this enough, abortion can be another word for mercy.
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We know that no two pregnancies are alike, and it follows that no two lives are alike,
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that follows that no two conceptions are alike.
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How can we have a point of view on this that says we must treat everything the same?
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And where I come at it from is when you allow for choice, you allow for flexibility,
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You're deciding for him that his life is not worth living.
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It's the opposite of mercy because it's the opposite of empathy.
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Or do you mean that it's merciful to the woman?
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Are you saying that killing a child is an act of mercy to the child's mother?
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Mercy to the mother is to help her, to give her the resources she needs.
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Abortion clinics, on the other hand, are vultures.
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They sell loneliness while taking away the love and joy of motherhood.
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So whichever way Hathaway meant it, she's wrong.
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Though I'm not sure she knows how she meant it because she's just babbling, which is what
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For our daily cancellation, we turn to American Idol.
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The most interesting thing about this show is that it is apparently still on the air.
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I don't know if it's an indication that I'm out of touch or that American Idol is irrelevant,
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but until this moment, I thought American Idol was canceled years ago.
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Be that as it may, it was back in the cultural conversation ever so briefly this week, but
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Instead, it was the story of one contestant, and more specifically, a judge's reaction to
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I was in art room one, and he shot up art room two before he made his way to art room
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You should be singing here because you love music.
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I hope that you remind people that we have to change.
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They ask you how you are, you don't just have to say that.
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You just can't get into it because they would never understand.
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Now, before we deal with the substance of Katy Perry's response to the extent that it
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had any substance, we cannot ignore the incredible narcissism on display here by her.
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He is calmly recounting his own horrific experience, and Perry uses it as a platform to put on this
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She even relates it back to herself somehow as her fellow judges comfort her.
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They start patting her on the back and comforting her while the kid who was actually in the shooting
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If someone is telling you about something awful that happened to them, your response should not
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contain the words, I or me, unless you're saying something like, I'm so sorry, or I'm here for you.
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But if you're attempting to put yourself at the center of this person's suffering or deflect from it so
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that the focus is on you and your own emotions, then you are a classic narcissist.
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And maybe worst of all, you're creating an incredibly awkward situation for everyone else who has to be
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I can only imagine how uncomfortable it must have been for that young man to be standing there,
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not sure what to say or how to respond as Katy Perry launches into her camera-ready monologue
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A monologue that was planned, by the way, considering that the judges would have known ahead of time
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that a contestant was coming up who'd been in a mass shooting.
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I mean, I understand that this is a very cynical interpretation of events,
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but I've been around long enough and I've been in media long enough
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and I've met enough of these sorts of people to justify my cynicism.
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But what about the actual point she was making in her scripted diatribe?
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She says that the country has failed the victims and survivors of this school shooting.
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And of course, she means specifically that it failed by not passing enough gun control laws
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Never mind that the shooter already broke a dozen different laws in carrying out his crime.
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It's unclear how exactly it would have helped to add one or two more laws onto the pile
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that the killer was already determined to disregard.
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You can only make an act illegal so many times before the laws start to become redundant
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Yet this is what we so often do in our culture.
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When a bad thing happens, we declare that the bad thing is the result of some sort of failure.
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People like Katy Perry take solace in the idea that all tragedies are policy failures
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because, and really all bad things, you know, they say poverty is a policy failure too.
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Because for one thing, it gives them an excuse to push their political agenda, obviously.
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But for another, it comforts them to think that the right policies, if we could finally
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land on them, would banish all the bad things from our midst.
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When Perry says that the country failed because there was a school shooting, what she means
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is that we ought to have a country where there are no shootings at all.
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And she's right in the sense that every mass shooting and every bad thing shouldn't happen.
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If something is evil, like any evil shouldn't happen.
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But Perry, like any other leftist, believes that a country without any murder, without
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any bad people doing bad things, is actually practically achievable and that it can be
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The irony, of course, is that the utopianists who imagine that a world of perfect peace
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and harmony can really be achieved tend through their policies to create a world that is ever
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People with Katy Perry's worldview run most of our major American cities, and most of
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our major American cities are violent, crime- and disease-ridden hellholes, which actually
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isn't all that ironic when you realize that effective governance means understanding human
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And understanding human nature means acknowledging that bad people will always exist and they
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It's still true that a school shooting represents a failure.
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But they're mostly the kinds of failures that Katy Perry and her ilk never want to talk
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And they're the kinds of failures we skip over, focusing instead on debates over gun control.
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One which only ensures that this kind of thing will keep happening with the same or greater
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And that is why Katy Perry is today finally canceled.
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when Katy Perry is a thing, if she's a nonconist.
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She's overused by her with shouting in greenland.
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She's overused by demanding women in the namuh quickятся as Tomya, on her really
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She died trying her out much health and herétat。