This article on ESPN.com pissed me off. As you know by now, Bridget Moynahan is three months pregnant with quarterback (pictured right, bending over some guy) Tom Brady's baby. They split two or three months ago, and Brady's dating this gal. OK, so the situation's dicey, but come on! Some quotes from writer Jemele Hill's column:"And here Brady thought that late interception against the Colts in the AFC Championship Game was his biggest headache."
First of all, how irresponsible is it to refer to a baby as a "headache?" This child could read this someday and feel like total shit. At first I thought, Oh the guy writing this must be the biggest misogynist ever, but then to my surprise, I saw the byline said Jemele! A woman! I Googled her to make sure she wasn't a guy with some funky name, but no, she's a gal.
So then she goes on to discuss Matt Leinart, who also had a baby out of wedlock recently.
"And here's an observation that's worth noting about the Leinart and Brady baby situations: It's not just hoodrats and gold diggers who know how to execute a perfect trap."
"A perfect trap?!" I don't know anything about Leinart's lady, but I seriously doubt that Bridget felt so empty and lonely for Tom Brady that she "trapped" him with a child. She doesn't strike me as someone pathetic. Jemele refers to her biggest role as only Mr. Big's wife on "Sex & the City," but to me her acting credits are more impressive than some football career. Football: Who cares? [My male friend argues with this: "Tom Brady has two MVPs from two of his four Superbowl victories. He is wearing rings of the championship of the best game in the whole world. He is the best clutch quarterback (the key skill position) since Joe Montana, he is a nice guy from Michigan that was third string and came off the bench to become one of the greatest QBs of his generation." But I digress.]
Then, this line: "Welcome, Matt and Tom, to the world of outrageous child support payments. Welcome to being labeled contributors to the country's moral decay and growing out-of-wedlock birth rate."
What is this about moral decay and out-of-wedlock pregnancies? Maybe Jemele is being sarcastic here, but this is how a great number of Americans surely think. Britney Spears and K-Fed had children, and oh, I guess that's OK cause they were married. Let them drink to their hearts' content and smoke pot and shave their heads or whatever it is they do, but it's all right, they're married! But a seemingly responsible Bridget M. is pregnant, and well, fuck her, the kid's totally screwed cause she's single?
Seriously, she's 36 years old. Do you really think she's enough of an immature douchebag that she TRAPPED him? Everything from blog comments to Patriots fan sites have implied this, and it's terrible. She's the one lying low now and can't drink or smoke or prolly even have coffee and has to get fat, and Brady's out banging supermodels in Paris, but oh, yeah, poor fucking Brady.
No comments:
Post a Comment