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Celeb News: HuffPost drags Jennifer Lawrence again, predicts backlash
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HuffPost drags Jennifer Lawrence again, predicts backlash
Are We About To Start Hatha-Hating Jennifer Lawrence?
When rising female celebrities walk the red carpet, we instantly make decisions about them that most conveniently fall into the love-hate binary. It all seems so arbitrary, the way we pick sweethearts only to later hurl them from the graces of our general good will. But there are a number of social and economical factors involved in the way we polarize ourselves for or against the latest megastar.
As Lupita Nyong'o is catapulted into "it" girl status and we prepare ourselves for J. Law backlash, HuffPost spoke with the author of "The Cult Of Celebrity," Cooper Lawrence, about the underlying complexity of our relationships with famous ladies.
The rise of America's reigning BFF can be traced to the 2013 Oscars, which welcomed a flurry of think pieces, inquiring as to the cause of our apparent dislike of Anne Hathaway (dubbed "Hatha-hate") and hailing the rise of Jennifer Lawrence. The fissure was attributed to Hathaway's lack of accessibility, a feeling that she was "not a real person," as Crushable put it, whereas J.Law was less ostensibly "perfect," someone we could imagine ourselves eating pizza with.
Although, by the time the 2014 Oscar nominations were announced, the J.Law backlash had already begun. "Is Jennifer Lawrence Katnissing Us?" Vulture asked, drawing comparisons to "The Hunger Games" books and films, which warn us "about trusting anything the media serves up as 'genuine.'" Soon enough, Lupita took the statue for Best Supporting actress and everyone (especially Jared Leto) shook their heads at J.Law's failed limo exit, thinking, "Really? She fell again?"
Predicting the J.Law backlash in advance seems harsh, but it's not unprecedented. Are we about to start "Hatha-hating" her? Have we had enough of her poop jokes and repetitive professions of love for junk food? Maybe. But it's never been about any sort of genuine feelings for her in the first place. "We don't really care about any of these people," as Lawrence puts it, "We care about our little tiny social environment." It will be interesting to watch where J.Law's next faux fall lands her on the spectrum of public opinion. Although, the way we regard her (or Hathaway or Nyong'o) will always say more about us than it does about them.
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I see no lies, I love hunger games.. But Jennifer ha personality is seeming a bit contrived. 
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Oh for god sakes they're PRESSED over her.
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It happened to Taylor and it's gonna happen to JLaw. The GP can't bear the idea of a genuine celebrity. After a while, they start doubting the celebrity's actions, thinking that it might be an act, for absolutely no reason. They can't believe a person could be that real (and that loved), although it's not impossible. So they'll start tearing the celebrity down, but because that celebrity has always been genuine, they'll walk away unaffected by the backlash at all (like Taylor did) and JLaw will (hopefully). Pretty sure she'll pass this phase unaffected. Only the genuine celebrities can pass the post-America's Sweetheart backlash phase unaffected (breakdown-less I mean).
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They stay being pressed over Queen 
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Originally posted by boodytay
It happened to Taylor and it's gonna happen to JLaw. The GP can't bear the idea of a genuine celebrity. After a while, they start doubting the celebrity's action, thinking that they might be an act, for absolutely no reason. They can't believe a person could be that real (and that loved), although it's not impossible. So they'll start tearing the celebrity down
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Well said.
The GP cant handle the fact that talented, beautiful, PERSONABLE women exist, and since the first two traits are impossible to deny, they label whoever the current "good-girl" is as fake.
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Quote:
Originally posted by boodytay
It happened to Taylor and it's gonna happen to JLaw. The GP can't bear the idea of a genuine celebrity. After a while, they start doubting the celebrity's actions, thinking that it might be an act, for absolutely no reason. They can't believe a person could be that real (and that loved), although it's not impossible. So they'll start tearing the celebrity down, but because that celebrity has always been genuine, they'll walk away unaffected by the backlash at all (like Taylor did) and JLaw will (hopefully). Pretty sure she'll pass this phase unaffected. Only the genuine celebrities can pass the post-America's Sweetheart backlash phase unaffected (breakdown-less I mean).
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It's amazing how people hate her for the same qualities they liked her for. 
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There is no reason to hate her! Huffpost is just jealous!!!!!!!!!! 
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The world cannot deal with REALNESS
You can rather be basic and very quiet than being yourself cuz being yourself brings backlash.
happened both to JLaw and Rihanna.
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Originally posted by boodytay
It happened to Taylor and it's gonna happen to JLaw. The GP can't bear the idea of a genuine celebrity. After a while, they start doubting the celebrity's actions, thinking that it might be an act, for absolutely no reason. They can't believe a person could be that real (and that loved), although it's not impossible. So they'll start tearing the celebrity down, but because that celebrity has always been genuine, they'll walk away unaffected by the backlash at all (like Taylor did) and JLaw will (hopefully). Pretty sure she'll pass this phase unaffected. Only the genuine celebrities can pass the post-America's Sweetheart backlash phase unaffected (breakdown-less I mean).
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Really? Cause my friend who goes to the Grammy's every year said Taylor saw and walked right last the make a wish kids when they were begging for her.
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The Oscar fall was lame, I'll give them that. But her candidness is still great most of the time. Her "my dress is squeezing my breasts into my armpits" comment on the red carpet at the SAG awards was 
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Whatever. The hater bitches will be crawling to the theater anyway when JesusJay comes out 
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HuffPost are a bunch of fangurls. . .I stopped reading them long ago. They always trash and drag ICON so I can see them doing this too Jennifer.. .
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It's amazing how people hate her for the same qualities they liked her for.
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Because people means one single person?
There are some who like her for that and some who (see through and) dislike her.
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I love J.Law I don't get the hate
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But she never said she was perfect the GP were the ones stanning for her two years ago 
but Lupita will be next and so on and so forth 
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God, she has them so pressed
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Build them up just to tear them down. Huffpost remains just as trashy as the tabloids, as hard as they try to distance themselves.
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Their obsession is beyond sad at this point. Funniest thing is they'll probably be first in line for Mockingjay and X-men.
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