Ok, so here’s how this loveliness began. While she was promoting her new movie, The Switch, Jennifer Aniston made the following quote:
“Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don’t have to settle with a man just to have that child. Times have changed and that is also what is amazing… that we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents’ days when you can’t have children because you have waited too long. The point of the movie is what is it that defines family? It isn’t necessarily the traditional mother, father, two children and a dog named Spot. Love is love and family is what is around you and who is in your immediate sphere. That is what I love about this movie. It is saying it is not the traditional sort of stereotype of what we have been taught as a society of what family is.”
After that, Bill O’Reilly and a couple of Stepford-looking Fox News ladies got together, as shown in the above video, and Bill said that Jennifer’s statement is “destructive to our society.”
I may not be the biggest fan of Jennifer Aniston, but I’m on her side with this one (it doesn’t hurt that I hate pretty much everything that Bill O’Reilly ever says). I definitely don’t think a woman needs a man in her life to have a child, and I don’t think there’s anything in her statement that could be misconstrued as being supportive of teen pregnancy as Bill O’Reilly suggests.
Which side are you guys on?
And on a begrudging note, high five to O’Reilly for telling that woman it was “unfair” to get so personal and catty around the 0:28 mark. I still don’t like any of these people though.
I dunno…. while I agree that in today’s times a family doesn’t have to consist of the stereotypical “Mom, Dad, and the Dog characters,” I wouldn’t go so far as to say that that structure doesn’t come with certain benefits that single/aleternative parenting doesn’t. Also, I wonder how sexist such remarks may or may not be perceived had a man said something to the same affect. It might sound like we were saying we could use women for sex and pregnancy, and then kick them to the curb. At least that’s what some people would hear.
Women don’t need a man in their life to have a child, but that child does need a father in their life! Studies back this up people. I find it incredibly selfish and self serving.
I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say.
I understand exactly what Britta is saying. Sure, a woman doesn’t need a man to have a kid, but kids need 2 parents. I realize it’s unpopular to say, but it’s downright selfish to become a single parent on purpose.
I’m sorry, but a woman DOES need a man to have a child. Try getting sperm out of a pussy.
Fuck off. You do not “NEED” two parents. I’ve got friends who have two fucked up parents who would obviously have a way better future if they were blessed with just one single stable parental. One benefactor is all it takes.
O’Reilly does not suggest that she supports teen pregnancy. They just make the point that it would be easier for a multimillionaire (JA) to be a single parent than a 17 yr old who hasn’t finished high school. This should be no surprise, Emily.
In fact, I think the bulk of Aniston’s quote was to suggest that the “traditional” family is changing, however not that single-parenthood is desirable or good.
I’d rather be on Team Osama than Team O’Reilly
Bin Laden?
Nobody in their right mind should believe anything Bill O’Reilly says anymore not after his loofah-phone sex crap with an intern — right? STFU BO’R. But—nobody can deny that the optimal way to raise children is in a 2 parent-father/mother household — end of story. Then the next best way to raise children is in a caring household ….end of story.
Why father/mother relationship? Because both father/mother impart different kinds of parenting. Mothers are the nurturing, and emotional providers. Dads tend to be the physical, more socially connected type of provider. Dads, in most cases, also provide to stabilize the family economically, etc. I could go on and on…..Mostly Jennifer should shut up. She couldn’t keep her own man in the first place, much less get a baby from him…..
I’m so tired of this “children need a father” nonsense. Though it is usually easier to raise children if two parents are involved, this is exactly the kind of mentality that encourages single mothers to go out of their way to remarry — not for themselves, but because they think that they owe it to their children. Parents owe many things to their children, but other parents are not one of those things.
Also, my mother is amazing. Had it not been for my biological father or my stepfather, I probably would have had a happy childhood. Now I am a happy adult who has no contact with either father, and I envy fatherless children. Many of them are the lucky ones.
Shouldn’t you be envying mothers who didn’t marry douchers?
I think the argument is being made that children need two “stable” parents. I don’t think anyone would argue that destructive or abusive parents are better than not at all. Of course, toxic people of either gender are bad for all involved. The idea of envying fatherless children is sort of horrifying
Yes – your personal crappy experience extrapolates to EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET. Because you had poor father figures, then absolutely no one else needs one. Well said.
Bill O…is an ass
Simon Jadis, I’m sorry, but you’re an ass. To say you envy fatherless children, where do you get off? My dad wasn’t always around for me, but that’s because he was busting his ass working any job he could to keep me fed, clothed and give me anything else he could. I would not dare comment on your mothers judgement in choosing husbands that weren’t good from you, because I know nothing about it, but for you to dare say fathers are unnecessary, shameful. And my mother is amazing as well, and despite her and my father not always, more like seldom getting along, there is not a moment in my life where she would have wanted my father out of my life. Not all men deserve to be fathers, but neither do all women deserve to be women. Women can screw up their kids lives as easily as any man. So you are a pinhead.
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that single/aleternative parenting doesn’t. Also, I wonder how sexist such remarks may or may not be perceived had a man said something to the same affect. It might sound like we were saying we could
Two parents make it easier because we’re all lazy that way. Children just need stability and care.
I read Bill’s entire comment. Whether he is an “ass” or not, does not mean that he is wrong all of the time. I happen to agree with many of the commenter’s here who believe that A) had a man said these things about a woman, women would be calling him a sexist pig and beating their breasts black and blue over it and calling for his vitals to be served up, cold, on a bed of lettuce; and B) It is imbecilic and arrogant for women to hold the belief that men contribute noting to the upbringing of a child. To actually express such thoughts aloud is unbelievable. I loved my dad and was grateful for his presence in my life. He contributed greatly to my upbringing. He is gone (i.e. deceased) but he is emphatically not forgotten – love ya dad, where ever you are! C) I don’t blame Bill O’ for taking issue with the comment. If I were a man, I would very much resent it that my role in the family was being diminished by this forty something actress who is the mother of none.
I must point out, Jen’s ex-spouse, who evidently very much wanted children, is contributing greatly to the upbringing of his brood – children he fathered and adopted with another woman. Jen, meanwhile is childless, and has no personal experience upon which to base this opinion she so very publicly expressed. My impression is; if she were a mother, she would probably be very grateful for the love and support the father of her children would offer.
Hang yourself in front of your mom.