This video is a couple of days old, but it’s worth discussing because of the way Emma Stone handles a bizarre gender-stereotyping session by her boyfriend, Andrew Garfield. Andrew, Emma and Jamie Foxx have been making the promotional rounds all over America and Europe for a few weeks, and one of those events was a Yahoo-sponsored screening and Q&A session with Jamie, Andrew and Emma. When a little boy asked Andrew a question about Spiderman’s costume and how it was made, Andrew tells the boy that Peter Parker made the costume by sewing it himself. Except Andrew went sort of off-message, and Emma was quick to call him out.
Andrew said:
“He made it with his bare hands. He sewed it, he took some sewing classes, and some needlework, some pinpoint, needlepoint classes. It’s kind of a feminine thing to do, but uh, he really kind of made a very masculine costume out of a very feminine – “
Then Emma interrupts, but not in a strident, ball-busting way, but in a “explain this to me, please” sort of way: “It’s feminine how?” Andrew tries to act like he didn’t just make a huge generalization about femininity and masculinity by saying:
“I would say that femininity is about more delicacy. And precision, and detail-work and craftsmanship. Like my mother, she’s an amazing craftsman. She in fact made my first Spider-Man costume when I was 3, so I use it as a compliment. It’s a compliment of the feminine not just in women but in men as well. We all have feminine in us, young man.”
Yeah. For some reason, Andrew’s explanation bugs me more. Feminine = delicate, detail-work, working at home, artsy crafts. Masculine = superheroes wearing spandex? Perhaps Andrew needs to date Kirsten Dunst with her promotion of 1950s gender norms. But I do like the way Emma handled the situation. She couldn’t bitch him out in front of children, so it was like she just gently reminded him that he sounded like a caveman.
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Ugh. I’m not a fan of his anyway, but that was cringeworthy. So tired of that kind of thinking/attitude and the need some people have to verbalize it.
I don’t get why he even went there, it was totally unnecessary in relation to answering the question.
My guess is that he tried to compensate the image of Spiderman sewing his costume, which he brought up, and then went overboard.
idk, the costume designer of the franchise is a woman, maybe that influenced his answer.
It was rather odd though, and he wasn’t even aware that he said something odd.
Me thinks someone is very worried about his own masculinity. As an aside, I don’t understand how he has become a big star. I think he lacks charisma, and in looks, he reminds me of a scrawny chicken. No offense to chickens. In reality, I don’t care what he thinks, so I didn’t find his comments offensive. They came across as very defensive, like he has some issues to deal with in himself.
God she is just way, WAY too good for him.
He is one of the few actors that I truly cannot stand.
When I call a guy out on something like that, I expect him to respond in either a self-deprecating, joking way or to at least agree with me–the worst reaction is a defensive one.
THIS is total confirmation! my husbands friend (that was in the amazing spiderman) came back with stories of how sweet Emma was to everyone and how unexpectedly awful Andrew was. Very not too bright, but no one would tell him he was wrong unless they wanted him to act like he’s 5.
TOK
She is way too good for him.
I’m not a huge fan of hers, but those I know who have met her say sh’es over the moon sweet and smart.
I never liked him anyway but it was very stupid of him to provide an unnecessary explanation to a kid and he got in trouble for that.
Regardless of his looks, he comes across as thick and Ms. Stone seems a smart cookie instead, weird match IMO
I’ve always had an irrational dislike for him, and it just became rational. He’s always given me a slight douche vibe and he’s just given me evidence of his douchey-ness.
Me too. I know this is unfair but I’ve always HATED his appearance and disliked him as an actor.
Glad the personality sucks too, if for nothing else than to justify my hatred.
I agree with you guys. Have never liked him. This is the first time I’ve ever clicked on a post about him. I just came here to say that this guy has issues. I don’t even believe his relationship with Emma is real. I feel like I’m being taken for stupid.
I liked him during Social Network era. I thought his friendship with Jesse Eisenberg was adorable. I don’t care about him these days. And i don’t think they are in PR relationship. Spider-man movies don’t need it. Comic book fans generally don’t really care about real life relationships.
Ditto.
Sorry, but secondhand stories of someone acting douchey are not enough for me to write him off, esp. as in general he is pretty low key and cool with with his fans and has gone out of his way esp. with kids. I imagine he was under an enormous amount of pressure during the first Spiderman shoot, maybe he was grumpy on set/who knows but Emma would have been more chilled I imagine, not having the pressure of being the new freaking Spiderman. Plus guys are way more likely to say a guy is a jerk than a pretty actress who maybe was nice to them, just saying. I really liked her for awhile, lover her early career, but lately she’s just meh. She got scary skinny and lost her appeal as a girl next door/comedienne, I just don’t feel comfortable looking at her anymore. I know she is going through a hard time with her Mom so I don’t want to be harsh, I just wish she would eat a hamburger.
@MrsDarcy
I am like that when I am grieved by something, I wouldn’t be able to eat a soup, let alone a hamburger!
This is why I love her and why I can’t really get into him. I hope he has other sterling qualities and is just really awkward in interviews because he comes off like a douche more often than not.
I like that she didn’t give him a pass because they were in public. She was kind and gentle about it, but she was not about to let him say or insinuate that sewing is a girl thing. I LOVE her more for this than almost anything else I’ve read about her.
“say or insinuate that sewing is a girl thing” oh, horror!! :DDD
What do you mean? I plan to teach my bruiser of a son to at least sew on a button and fix a hem, and if he has further interest, then great. My husband can certainly fix a button or tack up a hem. We shouldn’t be identifying useful activities as “male” or “female.” He could have even said, this might be considered “traditionally” female and gotten more of a pass, but just straight up calling an activity “feminine” is BS.
i agree with u, basically… maybe i just never really thought of it. Also, i’m from Ukraine and American polit correctness is very new to me))
Gotcha. For me, it really isn’t about being politically correct. I’m really big on gender neutrality for children, as much as possible. It just seems to make sense to me-let them choose what they want to do without trying to identify a “gender” role with it. When they get older, they can decide what traits/gender they feel are most natural to them. We are all a mix, and trying to throw things into the feminine/masculine bucket can make it difficult for children who truly like something that isn’t assigned to their gender. For example, if a boy likes sewing, he might think he’s being too feminine, because we’re taught to identify masculine/feminine and to try to conform to the traits for our gender. My son is naturally an extremely physical child who gravitates toward many traditionally masculine things. However, if he likes Sophia the First or princess stuff too, we treat that as OK too. Telling him that’s for girls and he shouldn’t like it will start him down the road of repressing anything “soft” about himself. *shrug* Raising kids is all guesswork anyways, but that’s kinda where I’m coming from.
@PrettyTarheelFan
I can’t stand it when people do that. My dad is pretty religious, and he would never pull any crap like this. Like my nephew (who’s five) likes to play with baby dolls, and sleeps with one–it’s an old baby doll that was mine when I was a kid. My dad doesn’t take it from him, tell him to play with trucks or anything like that.
She also treated him with respect when she did it which will do more to create awareness in his mind that berating him ever would. He may have gotten defensive in the moment but we have no idea what kind of conversation they had later. So many times, sexism and racism is out of ignorance rather than malice. Good for her!
Amen. While we don’t know what she said behind closed doors, gently pointing out an error and giving him a chance to correct himself is just…classy. There’s no other word for it.
*snorts* I love Emma.. But I’ll be honest, I’m not really offended by his explanation. Being feminine is not a bad thing for anyone. I think you may be putting to much thought into it.
(but I like both of them so I could be biased)
In a room full of young kids, it’s very, very problematic.
It’s not really because kids get gendered messages ALL the time — from birth on.
Andrew was probably the only one who said boys all are a bit feminine and it’s okay. Which is just as awesome as Emma’s handling of his initial misstep.
Yep, I don’t think it’s that bad. It’s very cool that Emma called him out. Why bitch about it? We all were raised with gender stereotypes and he figured his “mistake” out by himself then. Everything’s fine.
I have to say I begin to really love Jamie Foxx. He was cracking me up in the end of the video.
Blue Marie–
I think you’re misunderstanding a bit. The problem is not that he’s saying it’s negative to be feminine, but that sewing itself is feminine. The problem with this assumption is that, by implication, any woman who doesn’t sew isn’t feminine, and thus isn’t womanly enough. Making generalized claims about either gender is usually a bad idea.
@Anna
You’re reading into the comment way to much, he thinks ALL women who don’t sew aren’t womanly enough?
It is and he expressed himself very badly. I doubt that Emma would be with someone who’s stupid or macho though, so I don’t think it’s a big deal.
Not only that, but the duality of gender norms that are fed to these kids every day (masculine/feminine) means that if something is feminine, it can’t be masculine, and vice versa. So, labeling a skill as masculine/feminine assigns it to a gender.
@Liv
Plenty of people could say that I am smart, but would my collection of douchebags prove the opposite?
Unfortunately, you realise too late that you are with a douche who will never change….
Kind of right, but do you think that a girl who calls her boyfriend out in front of cameras would put up with that stuff behind closed doors? In her case I don’t. Plus they are a couple for quite some time now. I guess she would have figured it out by now. They seem in love and I think he’s one of the nicer actors out there. I don’t appreciate what he said about sewing being feminine and stuff, but he corrected himself when he said we all have feminine and masculine sides and I’m fine with that.
Not cool to say anything is feminine or masculine in front of young children. Say if that kid liked sewing, I bet his love for it would be pretty crushed with Spiderman telling him that sewing is for girls.
yeah this mostly. Considering the target audience of the franchise, the cast need to be a bit careful about their answers in moments like this.
Many impressionable kids are fans and like to dress up as spider man and make a spider costume. It might be hurtful if such a stamement get ‘s a life of it’s own and gets picked up by other news outlets and interviewers and edited and re-edited. Best to nip in the bud like what they just did.
Yeah this is why I have an issue with it. It’s not so much what he said-which was more careless and ignorant than anything intentionally cruel-it’s the fact that you have to be very, VERY conscious about what you say in front of small children.
It’s a very basic rule to avoid gender stereotypes in any capacity when speaking in front of an audience as impressionable as kids are.
I don’t understand why a kid would be crushed to hear Spider-Man thinks sewing is a feminine activity because Spider-man actually sewed the costume. The main gist of his answer wasn’t ” Don’t see because it’s too girly. It was that Spider-Man sewed his costume himself.” I like how Emma questioned him, but I don’t think he traumatized any young kids in the audience. My take anyway.
I don’t think kids would be crushed by the idea of Spider-Man sewing. It does make an impact thought. Children are just forming their opinions of what is boy and girl. We are now beginning to understand how subtle and deeply ingrained those ideas are to the point that many of us don’t even realize how much we reinforce stereotypes on a daily basis. I’m not saying their aren’t things that are distinctly masculine and feminine because there are. We are biologically different. However, it is less than we might imagine so even a throw-away comment like he made adds to the construct in a child’s mind of what is okay for boys to do and what is okay for girls to do.
Totally OT but I hate that for homemaker toys they have only girls on the boxes.
I was out buying something for my niece and the shop had mini pink cooker, iron, washing machines and hoovers…all with girls only and all bright pink.
F88cked me right off….. I bought her Lego
back in the day I was always grossed out by baby born.
Lego FTW, it’s much more versatile. if she wants to play with an iron, she can build one from lego (i did)
That is annoying, I’ve gotten my nephew some anyway because he loves to pretend cook.
This is OT as well, but why can I never find just a tub of Legos anymore? Why do they all have to have specific instructions to build something?
have you seen Legos lately? They either have angry looking pirates or ninjas or the new line has pastel colored houses, nail salons,etc. it’s like going back in time. They make the specific items to build so that you’ll keep buying.
The one I bought her was a tub of Lego. I think it had a house on the front of the tub as in that’s what you’re meant to make but it was the usual green, blue, red and blue ones with a couple of people and I think there was a Lego cat in there.
I hate that Kinder Surprise have made blue and pink ones to indicate who the surprise is aimed at (cars for boys and fairies for girls…GROAAAN). I used to love making the toys and playing with them, why do they have to separate into boy and girl toys??
@Birdix–my children and I had a HUGE conversation about LEGOS when the friends line came out. We discussed gender stereotyping and my 8 year old son even mentioned that there could be way more female characters in the existing sets. My son has hundreds of LEGOS and my daughter enjoys them too. My dad was quite concerned about all the sets being designed to build a specific item and would quash creativity. My son builds whatever it is once. Just once. Then he mixes all his pieces together and builds something entirely different and way more amazing. They also have sets that encourage design called the master builder academy sets. So LEGO is doing some stereotyping, but how you approach the toy with the kid makes all the difference. Overall, I think it is still one of the better options out there.
Gender based stereotypes are not okay. Calling a man feminine or a woman masculine are insults. And people need to just stop with that garbage.
Well the problem is that these stereotypes are so outdated. My brother can sew and fix things better than I can ever do. He can fix all sorts of electronics, appliances, the like. Basically, I suck at fixing stuff, whether it’s fixing clothes or appliances, and my brother is so much better off than me in the real world.
I don’t know why a useful activity has to be gendered, feminine or masculine. It’s the same way I feel about fixing appliances. Anything that is useful in your life shouldn’t be gendered, that’s just the way I feel.
I love her.
I love her too.
Me too. She’s like our reward for all the Lohan crap – a deep-voiced redhead with a brain and class.
Yes! haha!
Me too.
I thought she handled it well. They seem like a super cute couple and have been dating for several years now…..I’m glad she’s back to making movies. She has the Woody Allen movie (ick), Spiderman, Birdman, and some Cameron Crowe film with Bradley Cooper….
I don’t mean to concern troll, but Emma’s weight….it’s a little disturbing. I know some people are naturally thin, but her entire face looks different and she looks downright gaunt and sunken in. When you see Easy A and Zombieland, she was always on the thinner side but she is significantly thinner than when she was in those roles (at least 20-30 pounds imo). Anyway, I hope she’s okay
Her mother has cancer, hasn’t she? That could explain the weight loss.
That’s what I was thinking….especially if it was serious. I know that when my mom first told me she had cancer, I couldn’t concentrate for days on anything that was important. I didn’t want to do anything that would require me to do more than two minutes of thinking. Now that we know it’s stage 1, there’s a load off, but still.
Plus Emma was always so tiny to begin with, so it wouldn’t take much for her to start looking gaunt. To be honest, I am so bad with weight loss–she doesn’t look any different to me. I don’t think she looks too thin at all.
I noticed her weight in an interview I was watching. When she moves around, you can really see it. I’m sorry for her mother but relieved there may be a logical explanation for it. I hate to concern troll but I worry about how skinny these starlets get and the pressure on them.
omg, you’re right. she needs to go back to the weight she was before
He seemed really conscious after she called him out. All that gesticulating made him look even more nervous.
I think I know who wears the trousers in their relationship.. maybe he sews them but Emma definetely wears them. 🙂
I bet they had a good laugh behind close doors after this incident.
My uncle was an amazing tailor and seamstress (can you use this word for a man??) at house Blumarine and he was indeed very precise, crafty, artsy but not feminine. His hands were lovely though!
the term seamster is gender neutral iirc
When I went to the fashion academy, there was no difference in gender and quality/style of work and teachings. there are amazing craftsmen and women in that business. In the end it wasn’t for me though.
Must be pretty interesting to have a family member in working at that level. He must have mad skills.
btw I think she likes wearing the pants, and I think he likes it too 🙂
Yes.. he was such an amazing person.. he passed away in november but he had such a great life that he was ok with leaving us when he did. After he was diagnosed with a terminal condition he had all the time to say goodbye to all his loved ones. Sad but there is always much much worse. He was amazingly skilled in sewing all my buttons back on my coats. I am terrible with buttons!!
I still suck at buttons, I don’t have the patience XD
that’s why I love making kimono and yukata style vests 😀
buttonless!
I can’t even put 2 pieces of fabric together.. I guess my talent in sewing and co. is non existent.
you have other activities you excel in, and I have activities I’m rubbish at. And that’s how everything balances out 🙂
My dad is great with numbers, money and administration. It’s not genetic…
Emma was fantastic- she played that so cool, and made her point very concisely.
After a stereotypical statement, Andrew recovered fairly well too- his explanation was a little wonky, but he didn’t really seem flustered.
This!
Miss Basic Bland Bitch really cracks the whip on him, huh?
Hardly a caveman it’s not like he said women should stay in the kitchen plus he’s right. Sewing is a feminine and he didn’t call anyone girly for doing it; he didn’t say it was a bad thing. She just made an uncomfortable moment for no reason.
I don’t see how sewing is a ‘feminine’ thing, really. All of my tailors, thus far, have been little old Italian men.
Ahaha! I just said in my post above that my uncle used to work for house Blumarine and he was an incredible tailor/seamster. And a non very feminine italian man. 🙂
Best tailors EVER and charming, to boot.
In Italy we have an old tradition for tailoring and it goes back to many generations. Some families still continue this tradition realizing handmade masterpieces tailored to perfection. It is always so much more expensive,..but it’s so worth it. A shirt or a dress made for your body makes a ton of difference compared to the one you buy in HM or Zara which are meant to be worn buy so many different body types.
That’s what I was wondering. Does he know that a couple hundred years ago, all of our masculine, manly men were going around in short pants, tights, and little heeled shoes? Wore white make up, rouged their cheeks, wore wigs, earrings, rings–with bigass jewels in them????
I don’t get how sewing, or cooking is ‘feminine’….
Yeah, people are so freaking uptight about this stuff… it’s exhausting.
There is nothing either “masculine” or “feminine” about sewing. It’s a completely neutral, necessary activity that has been gendered because historically, women were stuck with doing that kind of tedious work.
Why does an activity have to become gendered?
@Mark: the comment is not just sexist, it’s a bit Western-centric. I’ve lived in Asia for the past year and a half, and nearly all the tailors I’ve encountered are men. Of my last two regular guys: one was big, burly and stoic and the other had a Playboy bunny tattoo on his hand. Hardly paragons of stereotypical femininity, but they did excellent delicate work on my clothes.
Furthermore, if Stone felt compelled to correct Garfield in public, my guess is that this is not the first time he’s said boneheaded stuff like this and she’s tired of letting it go.
This isn’t the first time he’s done this, either. I remember an interview from the first Spiderman press tour where Emma and the interviewer were talking about sexism in the industry and Andrew rolled his eyes and said “Oh come ON” like they were just being whiny and melodramatic. I’ve disliked him ever since.
Do you remember where this took place? I’m trying to google it and can’t find it. Do you have a link to the clip of this? I would really like to see it.
I certainly understand most folks’ comments, but my $$$ is on AG not appreciating the “correction” in front of folks, no matter how gentle/subtle. He’s what, 30?, and no matter who wears the pants, no one appreciates being made to look foolish in public.
I hope she gains back some weight too. She was so cute in both Housebunny and Easy A- she hardly looks like the same person now- face is much more chiseled, and it’s not just from maturing.
I think she looks awful I have to say, some women just don’t look good super skinny and she is one of them. He features are just huge and she looks like an anime creature or something. So much prettier with a bit of weight on her, but she’s been this skinny for awhile now.
She’s a stunning woman but she’s starting to look a bit Gollum-esque with the weight loss. I just hope she’s healthy because I really like her.
Eh, I think he would have realized his error without her interrupting him and would have said something to offset, if anything her busting his chops made him start to dig a deeper hole which can happen when you’re caught off guard/mid-thought. I do relate to this dichotomy though as an American woman dealing with British men, they are just not taught to be politically correct in any way here compared to the States.
Of course there is sexism and lines that need to be drawn, but in America we draw that line at the hint of incorrectness, whereas a Brit might say something stupid then crack a joke about it because they do know right from wrong (well some of them), they just haven’t got that inbuilt chip of “never say anything remotely offensive ever.” It’s more like “Oops I shouldn’t have said that, now I will make a joke and it will be forgiven?”. Not saying they don’t cross a line sometimes, but I have learned that having the stick up the butt mentality with them gets you nowhere.
I notice a lot of British male actors getting called out on CB for random comments they make that honestly would not even raise an eyebrow here. I am totally not defending backwardness or sexism, to me Jamie Fox’s awkward/try to be funny by being fey (He does this a lot, he was really quite offensive on the Alan Carr show- Alan is used to it so courted it but he and Channing Tatum were just the stereotype of straight guys thinking that acting “gay” around a gay guy is fun) -response is far more indicative of a man uncomfortable with the situation. And yes, holy run on sentence Spider-Man! Anyway, I think Garfield is a good guy and this is not that big a deal.
I didn’t take any offense. If anything, Emma, who I normally like, seemed a bit touchy. Love Andrew Garfield’s neck! The best neck I’ve ever seen on a man.
Blue Marie: If you can’t find a tub of legos – get some Megablocks – they still have a big tub of just plain old building blocks but that might be a Canadian thing though…
Thanks for the tip, I’ll be on the lookout for some.
You can find the big tubs on the lego website as well…was having the same problem around Christmas!
I’m glad Emma called him on it!!! It was a stupid thing for him to say! However, I think I was more bothered by Jamie Foxx doing the little “gay” bit at the end of the clip…like saying, only a gay boy would sew…I wish we could get away from these gender and gay stereotypes…yes, sometimes, even straight men can sew! geesh!
Yup. I think Foxx’s response and defensiveness on the heels of what Garfield said was actually a bit more bothersome.
he made it with his bare hands. that’s enough of an answer.
Gender stereotypes are bad. Period. It doesn’t matter if he meant feminine as a positive or negative. The context of his statement was that the activity is outside the norm for boys but perfectly natural for girls. Statements like that marginalize both genders and aren’t appropriate in front of kids who are still figuring out what the world expects of them. Kudos to Emma.
Well said – it was the wrong forum for such a slip. If sewing is a ‘feminine’ activity then heaven help all the male surgeons out there!
it’s sex stereotypes not gender stereotypes.
gender is if you like pink you’re girl-like and if you like blue you’re boy-like etc.
gender is what he agrees with
She’s lovely. Him, I don’t like one bit, and not just because of this. Yes, gender stereotypes are a negative thing but political correctness is exhausting.
What I don’t like is that BEFORE correcting himself, his first defense was to go on the offense and blame Emma for taking it as an “insult”, which she clearly clarified. I think it was Lainey yesterday who said this video was proof that she challenges him to be better. Really, I can only their relationship isn’t all that great and will fizzle soon enough.
I think the media could’ve taken his first answer and made certain headlines / gists of the interview and it could have gotten out of control because he wasn’t explicit in what he said. She baited him into being more explicit, so the media couldn’t put words in his mouth. With so many media looking and hoping for interesting titles and quotes to garner clicks on their websites, political correctness is a neccesity for celebs these days. Yes it is exhausting.
One vague/odd/slightly offensive quote can lead to dozens of stories, which need clarifications and it will be brought up in further interviews endlessy, and it can take over a publicity tour.
He should have known better as the lead of a franchise, he should be happy that there is a mindful person sitting next to him.
To make sewing less “feminine,” just put on a Spartan helmet and armor, and yell, “Tonight we sew in Hell!”
Maybe, for those scared of looking too feminine while sewing.
On a serious note: I’ve never found sewing to be feminine. Look how so many of the best tailors are men.
What about sewing with random grunts, readjusting one’s self while beer guzzling and emitting loud farts? Too much stereotype, lol?
I agree on the tailor part, said so above.
They could , but I think grunting May be a little too much, but if it helps. Lol
LMAO Ash. I’m borrowing “tonight we … in hell” as an all purpose declaration.
You’re most welcome to do so. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
I used to like him a lot ever since The Amazing Spider Man came out, but I never read much about him, I assumed he was nice. But then I read about this somewhere else, and someone commented in a previous post how douchebaggy he was.. I don’t like him anymore. And parts of me have wondered if he’s the reason for Emma’s lost weight. Although I think she wouldn’t change for a man, you just never know.
Why does her makeup look so horrible in the last pic? Who is styling this girl? She’s gorgeous and those colors are NOT her friend.
I don’t hate him for this, but I’m glad Emma called him out, and I love how she did it.
Wow, she just went up several notches on the respect-o-meter for me! I think she handled it well. It’s a hard thing to do–to confront stereotypes in a public setting in a way that doesn’t raise hackles. It’s something that’s really important to do, though–especially when kids are present.
I’d really love it if someone on here would answer this for me (but please don’t be upset because i’m genuinelly curious). How come people take issue with his comment but when trans people say the same this everyone feels bad for them? When they say that they feel like a woman/man what they mena is that they more closely fit the gendered stereotype of a woman/man. Google it if you don’t believe me.
Thanks in advance for responding 🙂
I met Andrew Garfield a few times while he was on Broadway. He’s the nicest person EVER! I just want to squash the rumors that he’s a DB, that he is not.
I’ve always gotten a “nice guy” vibe from him. Also, I love when he does an American accent. There is something about his voice I just really like.
I don’t get why people think he’s a douchebag, I think he seems super nice. Also I highly doubt that Emma would be with someone who’s an idiot.
Oh, for heaven’s sake–what he said isn’t THAT bad. Please.
I don’t think it was that bad either. I’m all for equality and everything but he wasn’t trying to put women down. It has come to a point now that people are afraid to speak.
Yep. Of course it’s true, he was making a gender stereotype but it wasn’t that bad… I liked how he recovered.
What it really bothers me is Foxx reaction at Emma’s question: “wowww” like usually men do when one of them is perceived “under attack” by a female: they coalition to “defend” and intimidate the “attacker”
Yep. They feel the need to shame her for daring to ask them to clarify an ignorant assumption. To which I say “Wowwww”…
Yes, and then Garfield’s response, telling her she “took it as an insult”. Really, was that so hard to read? He can’t accurately read his own girlfriend?? I guess he was taken by surprise and got defensive… which is even more unattractive.
My husband (who is in his 20th year of the military) is WAY better at sewing than me. LOL I took newspaper and yearbook in high school and he took home ec. I tried to get crafty with our firstborn and make her a bear costume for her first Halloween. By 3 am I was in a puddle of frustrated tears (I was pregnant with #2 and a bit hormonal) and he took over and finished it. To this day I have trouble with the bobbin and rely on him to do it. Being a Boy Scout and then in the USAF, he’s had to sew on patches, badges, sew holes in socks, etc…Our 16 year old son is the same way–and way better at sewing than our daughters.
Why did no one mention that the most expensive TAILORS who make movie star suits are males?
It’s kinda like the sexism of the chef world. Females prepare the food from the time we’re BORN, but famous chefs are often male.
Females wait on tables but when fancy restaurants hire servers they’re usually male.
If there’s money to be made, suddenly it’s a MALE job, but everyday work is for females.
God you people wonder why so many young girls and women in general have huge insecurity issues. Why does everything have to be so PC?!? What he said was not wrong. I guarantee you in the US and UK 10 times more women sew than men. It IS a mainly feminine enterprise. Jesus stop being offended for being women and doing things women do. It is perfectly ok if mainly men do some things and mainly women do others!
For the love of all that’s holy, it’s comments on sites like this that signal the eventual downfall of society. Thanks to the Internet, every last individual gets a voice about all matters, and we know that the loudest and most abrasive words get the sound bite. So here we have a litany of pseudo-feminists that read this article as Mr. Garfield being one generation up from caveman, which brings out such intense vitriol that’s not close to being warranted.
What was actually written was a cute story about a cute couple that has a real connection (as opposed to Tobey and Kirsten) and Ms. Stone gently reminding her partner that young men look up to superheroes, so he better damn well act like one, which means not assigning gender roles when it comes to specific skill sets, as that thinking is antiquated. My favorite comment had to be the one from the person who said they “didn’t like him but could never pinpoint why. Well now I have a reason.” Really? You people must have a tough time getting through the day, what with every last thing men do being a slight against womankind.
I’m a woman. And a screenwriter. And I can tell you that Andrew is absolutely one of the best young talents in Hollywood. You’ll see. He’s got a film coming out shortly that will just melt your icy soul. And he’s good. His partner and co-star is a much better actor than he is, but that’s not a fair comparison, as not too many other young actors can hold a candle to her talents.
Thanks to the internet, you get to chime in too. So I guess it’s fine unless people disagree with you. I’m sure AG will do just fine in his career whether some of us like him or not. That doesn’t make him likable. Perhaps he should receive some PR coaching if his goal is to be more eloquent and well liked by the masses.
Thank you for sharing your qualifications too, we all know how much pull dime-a-dozen screenwriters (who have time to comment on gossip sites) have.
Go and make AG a STAR!!!!
I agree with everything you said. However, this post isn’t nearly as bad as the Aniston/Theroux post.
I think his explanation worked. He stressed that there is femininity in both men and women in the end. I found Jamie’s reaction was more douchey to be honest. Also, I appreciate that he called his mum a craftsman instead of a seamstress. Femininity does indeed exist in both sexes, and I agree we associate femininity with delicacy and care. Even though he didn’t have to start on how sewing is feminine, he didn’t say it was a womanly or a girly thing to do.
She looks really bad in that yellow dress. The color combined with the fact that she is scrawny really age her.