Women Can’t “Have It All”

So this is just a quick post but this really irritated me. I read the EW.com website regularly because I’m an entertainment junkie of sorts. I just love movies and television. And analyzing it as much as I can of course. But the other day I was reading the PopWatch Blog and this article caught my eye.
I was first noticing how discouraging it was that there were only 2 women on that list at all (maybe that says something about the PARTS available for women, eh? and don’t get me started about the lack of WOC on here!) But then my eyes saw red when the author, Mandi Bierly, decided to turn up the sexism dial and make comments about Sandra Bullocks’ marriage. As if it had ANYTHING to do with her ranking on this list!
The one thing that made me smile was that most of the comments on this post were calling her out on how Bullocks’ marriage and her husband’s infidelity had absolutely nothing to do with anything in regards to Forbes’ list (which was surprising because most comments on that website can be horrible). And also how if she did, for some ridiculous reason, feel the need to dig into the personal lives of the people on this list, then why only Sandra’s? Why not call out the other people’s lives as well? Surely she’s not the only one that doesn’t “have it all” as Bierly says. Or apparently that’s a phrase that can only be used when talking about a woman and only can mean a career, a husband (obviously we’re only talking heteronormative here. LGBTQ? who are they?) and babies!
Argh!!

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