Techtite.com Editorial : My Two Bits, V2

Look; it's late in April, I waited for something worth talking about for an entertainment-related editorial, and it never came. Just about everything is either too intense to discuss in an entertainment-related web site, or too frivolous to bother. There's one news item that qualifies, but only barely.

So let's talk for a spell about what I would not like to keep reading about over and over. Yes, I said that right. I'm going to waste editorial space whining about what I'd wish I'd never had to qrite an editorial about. When you hear what it is, I think you might agree. Simply put, I'm talking about the whole backlash about Jennifer Anniston's separation from Brad Pitt. To put it simply enough: Egad! People divorce all the time. The very fact that a marriage between Brad and Jennifer didn't work should prove this. It's not a matter of popularity or beauty or social status. It just happens. Please get over it kids.

The problem with stories like this is what I call the molasses factor. Even if you do everything to avoid getting stuck, you wind up getting stuck in conversations about how you nearly got stuck. Then you get stuck in conversations with friends on how they'd best avoid getting stuck. The "molasses" has you in its grip...and you never even stepped in it! Tabloids fluff is a lot like that. I don't want to talk about it though now that I brought it up, I have to talk about why I would've preferred not talking about it.

That said: what's my take on what happened between Brad and Jen ...? Rumors are left and right, but I'd say the Brad-wanted-a-baby rumor is most believable. Brad Pitt is currently 41, and he doesn't seem the type who'd want to be a dad as a senior citizen, a la Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Michael Douglas, and Jack Nickelson, to name just four. Moreover; Brad doesn't come off as a cradle robber --dark-humored pun not intended-- yet he's said many times about wanting kids. Consider these qualities in a man at 41, and the worry is clear. He had thought he was a happily married husband, and wanted kids while he was still young enough to pick them up without backaches. That sounds fair enough to me.

Yeah, I know the mantra; "My body, my choice." Absolutely. Fine. Check. The problem with that formula is: Jennifer knowingly married Brad when even we knew he wanted kids. I mean; if that's "casual" knowledge to us, as agnostic Joe Six-Packs on the street, how obvious must Brad's fatherly desires have been to Jennifer, year after year of marriage? If she was going to go all my-body-my-choice five years into their marriage, she should've thought of that long before the ring was even on her finger. Let's be fair though. It is quite selfish for a man to demand a woman have his child. However, it's similarly selfish, I would say, for a woman to marry a 36 year old Brad Pitt, who wanted a family someday, only to say five years later that sorry, but...no. What was Brad to Jennifer; some mere "prize" to put on her arm at parties? In this light, Jennifer seems more than slightly cruel.

Here's what's far more cruel: the tabloids. Yet in some ways: they're more cruel to us than they are to Brad and Jennifer. Could we have a cover story on at least one shopping aisle rag that does not involve Brad and Jennifer's break up...? This isn't a "who cares" rant; this is a "I cared about this...yesterday" rant. To put this breakup news on your cover over and over again is almost as stupid as putting Julia Roberts on your cover in 2005, as one of the 50 most beautiful people in Hollywood. Oops, my bad; People Weekly just did that as I type this. Not to make this into two separate editorials but let's put it bluntly: if Julia Roberts is on your list of top 50 most beautiful stars in 2005, you need to get out more. Likewise if you're still pining about Brad and Jennifer's breakup.

Does Angelina make the story more tawdry? The tabloids want us to think so, but sorry, I must disagree. For one thing Brad Pitt is, well...Brad Pitt, and for another thing he is now separated. It would've been a far more relevant cover story if someone could've proved they were dating during Brad's marriage, but...no. If Brad is now seeing someone it's for two reasons that are very simple. For one thing he's Brad Pitt. For another, he's separated from his wife. Add these together please: an admittedly handsome man who wants kids and is now separated. I'd be surprised if his driveway didn't have skid marks leading all the way to the front doorstep. Even new "it" girl Eva Longoria has been seen parading around town with a T-shirt reading "I'll have your baby Brad!" In other words: you really blew it Jennifer. Sorry.

Yeah, I know; boo-hoo for Jennifer, or so the tabloids paint the story. Why, she's just like every ditched wife out there! Yes sir; how many women out there have been married to Brad Pitt and didn't want his baby? Why, the numbers amount to...well, sorry, girl, but the number is only one. Ah, but she is the grieving wife, you see, because Brad is enjoying a vacation with Angelina while Jennifer is at home sulking. Oh, get off your Oprah Winfrey Show High Horses, already! This is hardly time to call your National Organization for Women offices because Jen was "wronged" by Brad. Jennifer is in charge of her future as a would-be parent, but you see; so is Brad. Brad wanted a family and Jennifer did not. It really is that simple. It's time to just move on.

Ah yes; let us all move on now please. Onward, to other topics far more relevant than Brad and Jennifer. Onward, to a grocery store whose shopping aisles are filled with covers that may not be more engrossing, though at least aren't filled with redundancy. Brad and Jennifer broke up months ago. They have since then, if they were wise, both moved on. Let's follow them, in a healthy way, and let's all move on ourselves.

Agree? Disagree?

...or perhaps just agree to disagree? Feel free to give your own "two bits," via Techtite's Letters page. Editorial Submissions are also allowed. Editorials do not have to agree with the views of other editorials at Techtite.com, though they must be relevant to entertainment topics of this web site (movies, TV, games). Thanks.

This page's entire content, except for thumbnail photos of products mentioned, was created by Techtite, copyright 2005; all rights reserved. Pictures of product(s) are only for the purpose of review, and by no means are meant to imply any association with Techtite.com and the distributors of that product. For further legalese, click here.

Brad, Jen, Angelina,

and Those Who Give a Flying...