This is the story that interests me about the Oscars.
Oscars 2020: Donald Sylvester thanks wife for giving up her career
The outrage from the left was just bizarre. This article is fairly delusional, too.
"It’s not worth speculating on the dynamics that led the couple to prioritize Sylvester’s career, as it’s quite possible that both husband and wife were perfectly happy with the way they divvied up their work and home lives."
"Prioritize Sylvester's career"? Hey, maybe what they ACTUALLY did was prioritize their children and family. Ever think of that? Maybe HE pulled the short straw in that decision. But thanks for that grudging "it's quite possible they were both happy".
"But the public response to Sylvester’s speech is quite telling, as it underscores an increasing cultural impatience with the idea that women should support their partners’ careers at the expense of their own." Who said anything about "women should"? Why don't these nimrods quit projecting their neuroses onto everyone else?
"Affordable childcare would go a long way toward solving the issue. Melissa Silverstein, founder and publisher of the gender-equality advocacy site
Women and Hollywood,
noted after Sylvester’s speech, “If that is not a message for better childcare policies for women in this industry I don’t know what is.”" What the fuck are these people babbling about? The guy is a successful sound editor for major Hollywood films; he just won an Oscar. I'm thinking lack of outside childcare, "affordable" or otherwise, didn't have a damned thing to do with his wife's decision to stay home with the kids. Is it really such a shock to leftists that some people actually like their children?
And the online comments were just insane. “Brava women heroes, sacrificing careers so white men can do what they want & not raise the kids.” Maybe YOU consider it heroic and a sacrifice to the patriarchy to put your children ahead of your own personal desires; most of us just consider it everyday motherhood (and far more about the kids than about pandering to their husbands). “If Donald Sylvester’s wife hadn’t given up her editing career for him, would she be on the Oscar stage tonight?” Yeah, she might have . . . which tells us nothing except how much more important she must have considered her children, and how
unimportant the poster considers them. “In the future we want lots of women onstage thanking their husbands for doing the same thing.” Whatever, honey. By then, you navel-gazing freaks will have convinced the rest of America not to pay attention.
