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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 4, 2022 22:48:24 GMT
He was photographed again with the kids. At least they are still censoring their faces. He was wearing his “Jane Campion” t-shirt!
The article said that he and his family indeed traveled to the Patagonia. Apparently they will be a week there and then return to London.
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Post by queenzod on Oct 5, 2022 1:33:21 GMT
What article is that, sgev? Is there a link? 👀
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Post by roverpup on Oct 5, 2022 1:38:40 GMT
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Post by queenzod on Oct 5, 2022 4:38:22 GMT
Thanks, RP!
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Post by roverpup on Oct 5, 2022 11:25:42 GMT
This is the conundrum that confronts me as well jbc. I want him to have undisturbed family time but I also want to see what he is up to (or at least know about it). I am glad they at least blurred the children's faces.
I guess that's the difficulty with being a celebrity. Especially one as world famous as BC. You really don't have the luxury of anonymity.
Everything you do is examined under a microscope of public attention. Everywhere you go there is the likelihood of being photographed - even when you really don't feel like being the subject of a picture. Every word you utter, every person to date, every facial expression you make, is likely to be recorded somewhere and examined, analyzed and parsed for inconsistencies, contraditions and meaning. Especially now with social media and a much more intense feeling of entitlement/ownership of the celebrity on the part of some fans. A lot of this attention is benign of course - like the joyful attention that BC (and family) gets here on this board. But there is also the ugly/darker side of this attention that comes with the joy - the wacko Haters, the rudeness of bitter resentful detractors, trolls and of course even more serious, the threat of kidnapping of family members.
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Post by queenzod on Oct 5, 2022 13:15:50 GMT
I admit to checking in on Gator from time to time and as I’m reading along I start to feel unhappy and frankly, sick to my stomach. I don’t understand that level of nasty delusion and I keep hoping they’ll grow out of it and stop posting such hateful garbage. But, sadly, I don’t think they’ll ever change. It’s just like Trump. I don’t understand him or his ilk, either. They *seem* semi-normal but they really aren’t and I don’t get how anyone (and that many people), can be so far removed from reality. Or is it just trolling? Do they really believe the garbage they put out or is it some conscious show for attention and power? The fact that I can’t figure it out bothers me, and so I’m caught in this cycle of trying to understand it when I don’t think I ever will.
I really need to learn to stop it! 😅
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Post by queenzod on Oct 5, 2022 13:37:24 GMT
Very wise of you, @jbc. I wish I could locate some of your smarts! I’m going to try to remind myself, when I have the urge to “go check,” how it makes me feel and then do something else instead. 😃👍🏼
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Post by llminnowpea on Oct 5, 2022 13:53:16 GMT
I admit to checking in on Gator from time to time and as I’m reading along I start to feel unhappy and frankly, sick to my stomach. I don’t understand that level of nasty delusion and I keep hoping they’ll grow out of it and stop posting such hateful garbage. But, sadly, I don’t think they’ll ever change. It’s just like Trump. I don’t understand him or his ilk, either. They *seem* semi-normal but they really aren’t and I don’t get how anyone (and that many people), can be so far removed from reality. Or is it just trolling? Do they really believe the garbage they put out or is it some conscious show for attention and power? The fact that I can’t figure it out bothers me, and so I’m caught in this cycle of trying to understand it when I don’t think I ever will. I really need to learn to stop it! 😅 I do two things: 1. I love some internet drama. But, I don't want to be part of it. Remember folks: SEE THE DRAMA, DON'T BE THE DRAMA. So, I pretend I am an alien from another planet (this may or may not be fictional) and am observing from the veiwpoint of a cultural anthropologist. Just observing. Sometimes laughing, but mostly observing. With a lot of eye rolling, admittedly, so not as dispassionate as I would hope, but still with some distance. 2. I recognize that with fans like that, the person they are making up stories about is as fictional as Khan or Strange or whatever (name another fandom and you will have these same folks - it is cookie cutter: they hate the spouse, they think the celebrity isn't an adult who is capable of making their own decisions, all PR is staged, even the papped shots, and they are just angry at someone who doesn't give two shits about them). Seriously - the hating fans don't know anything more than we do, so they make shit up, just like any other piece of fan fiction. Except, the character is based on a real person, but not that real person. It isn't based in reality. Hell, to be completely fair, we all have our own believed narrative about our favorites that don't come even close to the truth, good or bad - we even have them about the normal, every day people in our lives, because we can't completely know another person. But, at least we are not malicious. I mean, eyeroll with me: Children should never have dirty feet. LOL. WUT. Don't kids get dirty? Don't people complain that children don't spend enough time playing outside? Isn't the sign of NOT playing on a computer that they get dirty? I must be a filthy peasant because I get dirty feet sometimes, too. Especially when I am playing with the dogs or gardening. Hell, yesterday, I got peanut butter all over my pants and I have no idea how! The children aren't the same size as they were a year or two ago. Are you fucking kidding me? Children can't get dirty and now they can't grow taller like normal children? I mean, my best friend has a child Finn's age and he has gotten so tall! And, my niece when she was 7 was pretty tall, too! Like, children grow, folks! Who would have thought it? People change over time! Imagine! That dress is ugly. So tacky and shiny. The legs are split, so that would make it pants or culottes or some other fancy name, but def not a dress. And, I quite like the wide legged cropped pants look. I think it is so cute. I am going to make a pair for myself, but I won't look that good. Honestly, if it bothers you, though, I wouldn't read it, either. It is toxic. ETA: In other words, I don't try to understand it. Because I can't.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 5, 2022 14:26:24 GMT
I was thinking about this yesterday when the trailer of Shotgun Wedding was posted on Twitter. The movie stars Jennifer Lopez, and sounds awful. But that didn’t stop the string of tweets all from different accounts, yet all saying almost the identical “This sounds like such fun!”. I didn’t believe a word of it, and there’s no way those are real Twitter accounts. These celebrities have loads of money to buy publicity like that - real, genuine, ordinary fans who seem eager to see their favourite actress in her next blockbuster. And then there were all the ”she was robbed at the Oscars” tweets - again, they all sounded identical and fake.
So all the negative, hateful stuff about Benedict is likely just as fake. There are people investing a lot of time creating ridiculous stories about him, and getting others to repeat them so they seem legitimate.
I actually rarely see any of the hater stuff because I have all those people blocked, but I do appreciate learning about what’s going on with him and his family. And I’d love to see the adorable faces of his children one day, whenever he and Sophie decide to show them to us!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 5, 2022 14:34:31 GMT
Lol. I thought the same about that trailer! It looked very stupid but I think at least some of them, were genuine! It's just the Twitter group thinking.
Somehow guilty pleasures become respected and something that looks dumb is immediately acclaimed as great because the "favorites" are involved: "Look Jennifer Coolidge with a machine gun!" If it were Adam Sandler, they would said it was stupid! Lol
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