Here's a different kind of double standard. Matt Damon has gained weight for a movie he is filming now, The Informant, and somehow it's okay to call him fat and a fat geek without sending the Internets into an uproar like what happened with Tyra Banks and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
"But Steph, that's different. Matt got fat for a movie. He did it on purpose, and he is fat. Tyra and Jennifer are not fat they just gained a little weight and it was mean."
So, why should it be any different male or female to call anyone "fat" on a media site because they have gained weight for whatever reason? Let's take this example, Jezebel says, "We Are Definitely Not Fucking Matt Damon" and puts up a picture of Matt in swim trunks where he has obviously gained weight, and looks un-doable to the fat critics because he's doesn't have a Jason Bourne bod anymore. Yeah Matt has gained weight but he's no Jabba the Hut.
Now, what if a shot of a heavy Charlize Theron when she gained weight for her Monster role went up on Jezebel and read, "We Are Definitely Not Fucking Charlize Theron." Commenters from around the land would be spit firing and vilifying Jezebel. But here's the thing, they would never do something like that to Charlize but yet somehow they found it okay to do it to Matt. That is so grossly two faced, and really to me it is no different than what the blogs did to Tyra Banks.
Seriously, Jezebel needs to put themselves on their own MissDemeanors list but for MisterDemeanors, for being jerks to Matt and eating their own hypocrisy sandwich. How can you preach about how the media is mean to female actresses about fat issues, and then turn around and be mean to a guy because he's gained weight for a movie role. And in January, Jezebel, didn't you announce a policy where you said, "We take special care not to criticize the weight, wrinkles or cellulite of the women we feature" because you said that it is considered girl-on-girl crime? But now, it's okay to criticize the weight and get Perez Hilton-like if it is a man? What you did to Matt is equally "not right."
And I'm also pretty shocked that PopSugar called Matt fat since PopSugar.com started because of her love of all things Matt Damon, and they would never label any female celeb, "Fat but still powerful." With that same headline you could swap out Matt's picture for Oprah's, and if they did that watch the shit storm hit the fan. But again, Pop would never do that to a female actress.
I'm shaking my head in disbelief here. Thoughts people?
