Has Kristen Stewart ever sat down and said “I identify as XYZ now”? No, she hasn’t. But as she’s said repeatedly, she’s not hiding. She’s had a series of girlfriends for the past five years or so, and while she’s never said the word, I consider her to be bisexual, and I think she dates women somewhat exclusively at the moment. All of which is totally fine with me – she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation and if she doesn’t want to label herself, so be it. She’s never lied about who she is, and again, she’s not hiding. She actually seems to take her responsibility to her younger fans seriously, and she wants to make sure that they see that she’s healthy and happy and dating women. Kristen covers the latest issue of the French magazine Mastermind. She talks a bit about how ambiguity is important to her:
On ambiguity: “Yeah, ambiguity is my favorite thing ever. In terms of sexuality? For sure. And also in making films, if you perfectly answer every question, you don’t allow for people to have their own experience and really indulge a thought. I feel the same way about how we f— each other. You don’t want to know everything all the time.”
We need more films about young women learning about their bodies: “Right now, I’m so aware of the fact that we’ve watched, cinematically, men and their way into their bodies and do physical things that feel fundamental to this male perspective. In every coming of age story we see about a young girl, even if it’s the truest, most sincere thing, what’s lacking is the physical honesty of actual female experience and the way we discover our bodies. It’s like we’re scared of using certain words.”
After Kristen talks about being how we, as a society, are “scared of using certain words,” she recites a line from a screenplay she’s currently writing in which she uses the C-word, then offers this up: “That’s not something people would be comfortable hearing, up until right now, but I think it’s the perfect time. There’s nothing dirty about it, but I’m definitely going to be vulgar, and I’m definitely going to be completely unabashedly open about the fact that we’re entirely sexual beings.” Yeah… I get that, I really do. And I’m big believer in women being “allowed” to be as vulgar and sexual as men too. But the line she recited was… pretty vulgar, even for my laissez-faire standards. K-Stew is making a very graphic movie about young lesbians, I guess.
Cover courtesy of Mastermind, additional photos courtesy of WENN.
She is like the female Justin Theroux: no matter how edgy and sophisticated she tries to appear, she is still dull.
My husband gets all excited when he sees her on-screen so it’s clearly a question of perspective. I, on the other hand, get really on edge for edgy Theroux! 😉
Yeah, dull is right. Don’t have a reason to dislike her, but she doesn’t strike me as likable or captivating either. If she was a model who just had to frown and look icy while wearing a ton of makeup, than I’d consider her well-suited. I feel like her fans project way more complexity onto her than she actually exhibits. She’s probably more fun to be around if you know her personally, but she’s so unexpressive and limited onscreen that I really don’t care what else she’s up to. That includes her sex life.
I agree with her – as insufferable as she sometimes sounds.
But I also think that it’s not true that we have seen the real issues men go through with their bodies. We have seen mainly toxic masculinity.
We have two fights: showing what it’s like to have a female or trans body, or a pan-sexual body AND what it really like to have a male body in all its forms of sexuality.
That is an excellent point. So many male “coming of age” stories are toxic and sexist with sexuality seen as conquest and game.
I am here for KStew. She’s become something of a lesbian icon and I’m here for it. I even find her hotter these days. You do you kstew.
I don’t know about the “being allowed to be as vulgar and sexual as men” thing. At least not the vulgarity. It’s not entertaining when men do it, it’s not entertaining when women do it. Why measure women’s capabilities in comparison to men’s? Why not just do what is natural to you and forget about whether you can get away with what men have gotten away with? If you’re naturally vulgar, fine, not my cup of tea, but own it instead of masquerading it as a feminist statement of some kind.
Not shading feminism, as I’m a feminist. I just don’t see why women have to prove themselves in comparison to what men do. Specially on the issue of vulgarity! Like that’s an accomplishment?!?
“Because I’m hosting SNL and I’m, like, so gay, dude.”
She did say that, but whether you take that as tongue in cheek is another matter
Wow I had no idea people used the word “vulgar” in the 21st century.