She was also intelligent and had genuine artistic ability, attributes not remotely appreciated, let alone encouraged or guided, by that industry, especially for women. Probably, when she was very young, she was also friendly.
However, even in the places most remote from the entertainment industry's devouring commodification of beauty, to be the most beautiful girl among girls is always fraught with emotional intensity. To also be intelligent and sensitive is tantamount to a living death sentence of loneliness, in one way or another, whether or not it's recognized or admitted even to herself.
To be shunned for everything that is good about you by people to whom you try to be friendly does not inspire loyalty to girls or to women or to the bonds, spoken or not, that prevent women from seducing other women's boyfriends or husbands. It takes more strength than most people have to be more mature than everyone around them, and this is probably particularly true in environments such as the entertainment industry, where everyone is an asshole.
Brad Pitt was one of the most sought-after actors at the time that this all took place, and he had been for a long time. Ms. Jolie had the option of evaluating the industry that had pegged her as Ms. Aniston's opposite and deciding that she didn't need to capture any of the industry's prize pigs to prove anything. She didn't take that option; perhaps she never realized that she had it.
Ms. Aniston has made a career of being the girl that totally average people can relate to and aspire to be like without being too accessible to be held in contempt. If she has a talent, that's it. It is her exceedingly good, material fortune that she can be unreservedly herself in every movie that she's in and be utterly adored. She excels at this before all of her peers that I can think of, even those who are the most vehemently, obsessively conventional. Very few people have so few emotions that they can keep everything under control and never look bad on-screen; she is exemplary at that in ways that a really talented person can never be.
Nonetheless, man-stealing is wrong and that's what Ms. Jolie did. You can't steal a man who doesn't want to be stolen, and since Ms. Jolie was the most sought-after actress of her time, it was nothing to Mr. Pitt to abandon his wife of several years for the woman whom he and all of his friends wanted to fuck in their arrogant, absolute inability to perceive anything else about her besides her fuckability. I'm sure that none of them ever countenanced the slightest idea that she was smarter than any of them, not least because she had decided long ago not to act like it.
Man-stealing is something that the public can recognize as a source of unnecessary pain inflicted on the person from whom the man is stolen. You don't need an education of any kind to recognize it; you can empathize with it, and that's always stronger than any intellectual or even moral exercise.
My feeling was and continues to be that as soon as the new couple has a kid, you have to set aside as much animosity as you can so that the kid isn't surrounded by it. Ms. Jolie already had kids, whom Mr. Pitt eventually adopted. I do remember a picture of them all in which he was carrying a baby in a baby-carrier that went over his chest. That was before the conglomerate coalesced around sexually harassing me and spewing it violent, vicious, grotesque misogyny all over the planet in its rabid quest to destroy all gains for gender equality eked by the scrabbling work of decades of advocates and just men and women living their lives.
What the public doesn't know is that Jennifer Aniston is a wretched, evil, hyperprivileged, lying bitch who has been complicit in the destruction of women's rights and in criminal voyeurism perpetrated against the nonelite, like all the rest of them.
Those are screenshots of posts at Jennifer Aniston's Instagram.
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That's a screenshot of the beginning of my discussion at Instagram, before my posts started being censored, probably for publishing a lot of posts at one time. I have erased most of it from Instagram, to transfer it here.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 12, 2022 @ 11:50 a.m.
