are we ready, and i mean are we really ready, to stop pretending kieran culkin's oscar speech was cute? are we ready to talk about how the first thing he did when handed a little gold statue and a bit of power was to publicly humiliate his wife? the first thing he did was to get up on stage and say she owes him another baby now?
how she sank into her seat like a girl wanting to be swallowed up whole, smiling like we do when they are trying to pretend everything is fine. because hey isn't it so funny? don't they share a sense of humour? didn't she know the man she married? don't all the cutest couples joke about coerced reproduction? like men don't change the rules the second a room full of men start clapping for them. like men do not become monstrous the moment they get a bit of success.
but because he played a fun character in a fun show we cannot say anything about that fucking awful speech. i am tired. i am tired of women being expected to get it, to laugh, to play along with the humiliation ritual of being in love with a man who wants the world to know he fucking owns you now he won a little trophy so you better give him a child.
file this under: men resent women for 'gatekeeping' both sex and babies, and the moment a man gets a bit of power, he'll let you know just how deep his resentment runs.
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