Kate Winslet Says Showing Their Bodies and Not Wearing Makeup on Camera Is 'Not Fucking Brave'

[hewontgo]

Kate Winslet says it's not brave when actresses don't wear makeup and/or show their bodies on camera.

“That’s not f*cking brave. I’m not an ex-postmaster fighting for justice, I’m not in the Ukraine. I’m doing a job that matters to me."https://t.co/PPc8nteiIS
- Variety (@Variety) September 13, 2024
Kate Winslet recently said that it’s not brave when

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[inandoutofgrace]

*Ukraine, Kate

[likewowman]

"I'm not in the Ukraine" makes it sound like she is praising the heroism of the Russian soldiers lmao bless

[alwayspolaris]

It does suck that "brave" in these contexts always seems to be code for "not afraid to look undesirable", which is just another way to pick at women's looks. Nicola Coughlan also encountered this with Bridgerton press - no one was calling Phoebe or Rege brave (or at least not so often)

Why not just ask actresses how they feel about their roles without front loading the question with backhanded compliments?

[bethmai]

this sort of attitude is insidiuous as well. even though I see myself as a relatively confident and strong woman, I still find it hard to leave the house without some minimal make up.

I recently started to go bra-less (I have 34G's, so they are big gals) and that has been really freeing. I used to not want to leave the house without one so I didn't 'offend' anyone, now I just don't care! my titties are my titties, whether they're in their own mini prison or not.

[screamingintune]

I got big knockers too and stopped wearing bras with the pandemic. I thought I would feel weird but I don't. I feel less back pain is what I feel

[bethmai]

my discovery is a bit more cheesy hahaha. I was at Glastonbury festival and realised that all the girls with small boobies were bra-less under their clothes, and I was like damn why don't I do that. so I did, found it very comfy and less restrictive, and I just haven't bothered to put one on again except for a low-support bralet every now and again.

basically, I went bra-less at the hippy festival

[nutmegdealer]

also a 34g and can't imagine going braless in public! i need these bitches strapped in.

[ialmrnt5]

it's also not brave to be so anti glamour

i feel like the movie shes in coming out is really trite oscar bait

shes representing a really fascinating model / muse turned photojournalist, but the trailer looks so fucking standard bore fest devoid of any artfulness anything unpalatable any glamour, this was a woman in the world of vogue photographers, man ray, etc and kate winslet shrunk her into some corny archetype of an like tough raw whatever.. i wish she would surprise me

[iznanassi]

omg lol yeah like it's popular on tumblr to act as if makeup invented misogyny and not like...makeup/ornamentation having been gender neutral for thousands of years meeting capitalism + christofascism weaponizing misogyny. if the problem is "women are attacked for [something trivial]", why would removing the trivial thing change whether women are attacked?

[butnow]

that's true but at the same time it's worth recognising how fucked up norms like women being seen as looking ill, being lazy and unprofessional when/if they're not wearing make-up and that with hygiene indifference being one of the ways of assessing mental health issues (depression in particular), it frequently includes wearing make-up for women, while somehow men's lack of make-up isn't seen as a sign of poor health, laziness, lack of professionalism or sign of mental illness. of course the root causes of misogyny run much deeper but gendered attitudes towards make-up are absolutely one of the ways misogyny affects women on a daily basis, and as such, it's not any less trivial than all those other little effects of misogyny in everyday life. of course that's not to say that no one can wear make-up just like pointing out issues with tradwives doesn't mean that no woman can be a stay-at-home mother/spouse but recognising and trying to change the extremely fucked up attitudes towards 'mandatory' make-up for women can be a part of trying

[iznanassi]

i'm not saying that it's trivial, i'm saying that it's trivial in face of the actual problem. i think what i meant to use was "arbitrary" but you'll have to excuse me because i'm in brain fog lol.

no specific action any one woman takes is bigger than the phenomenon behind it. especially something like makeup that's really a modern issue. it's also more complex than "wearing makeup good" "wearing makeup bad". there are also environments where a woman wearing makeup gets them punishment.

[ahkna]

The post office stuff is wild. I had never heard a thing about it until Mr Bates vs the Post Office.

[tanglespiders]

thanks, I hadn’t head about this until this post!

[angriest_girl]

I heard it mentioned on a British podcast a year or so before that show came out, and I’d never heard about it, but on the podcast they were talking about it like it was some huge thing. Which it was in the UK, but for such a massive story there, it was strange that it never got mentioned outside of there.

[ahkna]

A lot of people in the UK didn't know about it either!