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Re: Matt Damon's wife has a weird face WDYT
Ditto this! I find it hilarious that all of a sudden people take issue with discussing how someone looks. We had like 50 million posts about Heidi Montag last week.
We ALWAYS discuss how people look on this board. It's not like his wife has something geniunely wrong with her. It was a bad pic and people discussed it.
If the OP isn't breaking any Nest rules than she can post whatever she wants and if you think it's tacky, shallow etc then don't open the post/comment.
Are you saying the picture you posted also shows how she's "weird"? She looks the same in the picture you posted as she does in the 2nd picture posted on this thread, both of which she looks gorgeous in, imo. Maybe Matt Damon *gasp* wasn't worried about looks only and wanted some substance as well.
I think she's adorable, and they always appear to be very happy. Believe it or not, celebrities don't always "land" their s/o's based solely on looks. Case in point: The awesomeness that is Ric Ocasek "landed" Paulina Porizkova and they have been together for over 25 years.
Who said celebs pick a partner based on looks? I sure didn't.
The OP and myself happen to think this girl has a strange face. I don't find her pretty at all. A little cute, that's it. The point is that people are allowed to post that they don't find a celebrity or their wife to be pretty. That's it.
I notice a double standard between dark skinned/hair/eyed women and the fair/blonde. It's perfectly fine to tear apart a blonde as has been done to death on this board. But it's "mean" to rag on someone that looks like this chick. Noted.
Exactly!
I love this about him,too. He could have married a supermodel but he didn't.
At the same time I can admire him for marrying an underdog, I can still snark on her looks and I still have to stick up for the OP. There's no reason to suddenly pull the mommy card, "that's not nice to make fun of a person's looks" on THIS board. It's a board full of snark and a board that has no problem making fun of people's looks. Now all of a sudden it's mean? Please.
I would agree that it's hypocritical. We are all guilty of snarking on someones looks at some point in our lives. Anyone who says they never have is lying and/or delusional.
I'd also like to point out that the person who pulled the "if you don't have anything nice to say..." line is also the person who rarely has anything nice to say about well...anything.
I have many a nice things to say, but when asked for an opinion, I give it! If you cannot handle the truth when you have asked...don't ask! As for coming right out and saying something mean (without being asked), no I wouldn't do that. Not about someone I know, or someone on a message board, or a celebrity. And before you hop on that comment, no this doesn't make me a better person...just someone who wouldn't purposely be mean.
The problem with your "don't open the post," argument is that this IS a public board and the point is to look at posts and comment. The OP asked people's opinions which is completely acceptable.
The problem that I had was, the way it was worded. It wasn't, "WDYT about Matt Damon's wife," or wondering if the picture was a bad picture, but it was saying that "she has a weird face."
If someone were to look at a picture of you and say, oh this isn't a good picture, that is one thing, but if they flat out say that your face is weird, I think you would take some offense to that.
Don't even get me started on Heidi Montag. That AW is looking for any comment she can get, good or bad. I would hope you can see that Heidi is in a different category than Matt's wife, someone of whom I don't even know the name.
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De-lurking.
Sydney02: Please post your picture, so that we can micro-analyze your looks. By your definition, I wonder whether you (or the OP) would meet the criteria for the "cute, but not a supermodel" category. If she looks "weird" or is unattractive, your standard of beauty must clearly be more stringent than that of average Americans. Seriously, randomly commenting about a celebrity's non-celebrity wife has a weird face is petty, immature, and catty.
And, there is a difference between ripping apart the looks of a good-looking woman, who happened to married a celebrity, versus a celebrity-seeking reality star who has gone through so much plastic surgery that she is virtually unrecognizable. The comparison with Heidi Montag simply does not work. Her plastic surgery was a topic in many boards other than F&B.
What does my picture have to do with anything? This is a board where people have made fun of other people's clothing, hair, makeup and looks for years! Now all of a sudden it's mean because it's Matt Damon's wife?
I wasn't the one who mentioned Heidi Montag but since you brought it up, I find it very sad that such a young girl is so down on herself that she thinks mutliple plastic surgeries are the only thing that's going to make her pretty. I think she has as distorted a view of her face as an anorexic person has of their body. If a person is going to clutch their pearls over making fun of Matt Damon's wife, then they should be clutching their pearls over Heidi as well. Otherwise they are hypocrits.
As far as I'm concerned, bring the snark. That's what this board is for. I can distinquish between a message board and real life. I guess some people can't.
I do find it funny that the most critical people seem to never have pictures of themselves.
As for Heidi Montag, I think the glaringly obvious difference is that one person is natural and hasn't paid to have any apparent weirdness taken out of their face and the other did. Heidi did pay to change things about her, she went on the cover of People to show everyone what $30k in surgery gets you, she is asking to be talked about over her surgery and the looks she changed from it, is she not? I don't think Matt Damon's wife is out there using her looks to get publicity or asking people to make her before and after pictures the new hot topic to talk about.
If someone posted Heidi's picture before surgery, no I wouldn't think it was necessary to bash her. Post any fair skin blonde minding thier own business, not looking to make money off of their looks and no, I won't slam them for their appearence, color of skin and hair has nothing to do with it. There's no pearl clutching going on, no one is up in arms about this, some of us just think it's petty to be so critical of people. Would you mind posting your picture so we can critize it? If not, you're a hypocrite based off your own logic. OP asked "WDYT" and some people chose to respond that they think it's rude and petty, get over it, it's simply what people think.
I would never post any personal information about myself including my picture. Not because I'm ugly but because of Nest history. I used to post pics all the time. After the meltdown last year on ML (no me, someone else), no more.
Besides, what does that matter? What if I'm gorgeous? THEN it's okay to make fun of people? Is that it? Only the pretty people can talk about someone else's looks? My opinion is MY opinion, regardless of what I look like.
I suggest you search my name on this board. You'll see that I never make fun of people. I'm actually one of the nicer posters on this board. I was pointing out that the F&B board suddenly got on their high horse over Matt Damon's wife when they are perfectly comfortable making fun of other celebrities all the time!
I would have the same exact stand even if I thought his wife was beautiful. What I think of this wife is not the GD point. The point is that this board can be very rude and snarky when it comes to superficial things so I found it strange that anyone on here could make a big deal over someone commenting on a celebrity's wife. Now if you don't get that point, then I cannot help you.
There is a huge point that you are somehow missing and, I am afraid, that after so many people have tried to explain it to you, you are a lost cause.
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And that point is what?
I'm not allowed to find someone unattractive?
Or I'm not allowed to post that opinion on this board?
I'm not being sarcastic. I'm being serious.
Because that is my point and only my point. People are allowed to find other people unattractive and if that person is a celebrity or someone who won't see their comments, I don't see the big deal if we post those comments here. It's not like we are talking about a board member's looks. Big difference there. That is my point. I never thought this was a board that didn't like negativity.
So please explain your point. Because really, I guess I'm not getting it.
I don't think anyone on this board says anything about anyone else being "unattractive". Yes, we talk about bad hair extension or bad plastic surgery but I don't recall anyone every coming out and saying so and so is ugly.
Yes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion but sometimes you need to keep them to yourself - especially when it comes to people's looks. This is a public message board and what if Matt Damon's wife did a google search for herself and this came up? It isn't very nice to hear negative things about yourself.
Like I said in the first response - everyone takes a bad picture now and again. I can actually admit that I don't photograph well at all. I don't think that I am unattractive though. I just don't take a good picture all the time.
All we are saying is to be nice.
Don't you think that's a bit of a joke coming from this board? Saying let's be nice would make sense on another board. But seriously, here?
How many times has some poor person posted their new outfit or bag looking for compliments only to be met with ew or fug. I get what people are saying. I don't get it coming from this board. I've been on F&B since it started and this is honestly the first time I have ever seen a thread go into depth that we need to never say anything mean about a celebrity's wife. I've seen people post people of other people's weddings and make fun of them! And they are members of the Nest!
I'm going to really watch and see just how nice people are because really, this is all news to me that saying you don't find a person attractive and stating why you don't find them attractive is so horrible and mean. I've always felt that this board was a way to say our true feelings about things we would never say IRL. Guess not.