"What started as indifference has turned to hate because of the bullying I have received."
Women Against Ryan Gosling. I don't have a problem with people's differing taste in actors; some people like his face, some people don't. However, I hardly think that "the world [is] trying to thrust him down my throat as a sex symbol." I think there is a difference between someone being popular on the current celebrity radar, and Hollywood forcing you to like someone--and therefore there is no reason that Ryan Gosling is an atypical case. He's not propaganda; he's just popular. No matter how many times I see Kristen Stewart in a movie, or Anne Hathaway, I will not like them. You wanna talk "bland"? The only people whom I have found that actually like
Kirsten Stewart, in any capacity, have been Tumblr dykes--and even that surprised the hell out of me (and also personally embarrassed me, because that girl has just got to stop--THEY CAST HER IN
ON THE ROAD! WTF?!
ON THE FUCKING
ROAD!!!). And I would say that she is someone that Hollywood put in a film with the particular strategy of attracting a particular audience.
Scarlett Johansson is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, and she is definitely not the greatest actress ever (ahem "bland"), even though I will watch anything that she is in because I can't stop staring.
Vicki Christina Barcelona? Hated it. Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johanssson having sex--what's not to love? Yes, of course, it would be fair then to argue that when Ryan Gosling is cast for a certain part he too is being cast for particular reasons. But he wouldn't be popular if real people didn't actually like him--and who cares! Tits on toast! The W.A.R.G. women have a right not to like his face. Period. Fact. I just want to take precautionary measures that W.A.R.G. doesn't turn into an Ivory Tower movement against the patriarchy. Because the "bullying" that the women of W.A.R.G. have received for not liking Ryan Gosling is not Ryan Gosling's fault. It is the result of the large-scale culture of disrespect towards
differing images of beauty that reigns in our society today. The phrase "sex symbol" has a different meaning for everyone. So please don't fight Ryan Gosling's "blandness" by telling me he needs to be more like Johnny Depp. Oh really?
