“And, of course, here you go: I still love her. But she’s retarded, too.”
Guy Ritchie in an Esquire magazine interview talking about — who else? — his matronly ex, Madonna.
Can you imagine how angry Madge was after reading that? I can’t confirm this, but I hear she was so outraged that she ate an entire carrot stick chased down by not one, but two bottles of Kabbalah water.
I don’t see what the big deal here is. It sounds pretty light hearted to me, I mean he prefaced it with I STILL LOVE HER
Spread the word to end the word. Help eliminate the use of the R-Word in everyday speech. Our language frames how we think about others.
http://www.r-word.org/
Absolutely! Every time I hear that word I cringe.
Eh i don’t even associate the word retarded with mentally challenged people.
i don’t associate the word “faggot” with gay people.
i don’t associate the word cuntface with kanye west either.
Hahahahaha at Anonymous!
same here with both^. i only ever use those words to describe idiots and douches.
Point taken.
But if he’d elaborated, maybe he would have meant emotionally retarded. After all, she did take up with a guy, what, 30 years younger than she is, after divorcing him? That looks like being stuck in young adulthood to me. But of course, guys do it all the time and no one thinks twice (except for their middle-aged ex-wives).
And while we’re at it, people say that someone is “lame” without anyone taking it as in insult to people who have an impaired gait. And we use “blind” to mean oblivious to something as well. And “black” to refer to evil.
And what about the time-honored use of “dumb” to mean stupid, when it also refers to being unable to speak or “deaf” when people mean that someone ignores someone else’s speech?
So maybe you are asking people to stop using cliches when they speak and to be more specific.
matronly? she’s the antithesis of matronly. look it up.
why does madonna have to endure so much age bashing? she’s aged beautifully, though at times artificially, and lived an incredible life every step of the way. kudos to her.
I totally agree. If I look that good at her age, I’ll consider myself incredibly lucky. You could probably fill entire cities with 20 yr olds who would kill to look like her NOW. Is it that as a society, we want women to start looking “matronly” at a certain point and have to pick on them if they don’t? I mean, how can you win? With all the talk about how we should be more accepting of ourselves, we mock anyone who ages poorly or well. We wouldn’t mock her if she just genuinely happened to look like she was 20-30, is that it? Meh, whatever, I’m glad I won’t have to deal with all that shit publicly when the time comes.
I know it’s not PC, but it’s still hilarious. What better way to finish a marriage than to publicly refer to your ultra-famous ex-wife as ‘retarded’. Pure British Gold.