Tuesday, May 19, 2009

dying inside

Perhaps some of you remember when I had to come to the realization that Tom Hanks was a complete Scientologist. This led to a search for other people who believed in this. Will Smith was among them. Which is fine. I mean, my roommate pointed out a very legitimate point that stars with other religions are CRAZY. Their marriage falls to shambles because of decades of infidelity, their kids get subjected to the fallout that can only come from The Crazy, etc. But Scientologists, she pointed out, generally had stable families. They had long-standing marriages, well-rounded kids, and generally didn't really show up in the tabloids for shaving their head or addicting themselves to cocaine and losing 285 pounds in 4 days.

So maybe, just maybe, I can look past the fact that the Sci-Fi author openly EXPLAINED that the religion was not REAL, just a figment of his imagination, and focus on the good fruits of this religion.

But then, in my class today, I learned some horrible news.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith have an OPEN MARRIAGE! The implications of this mean that they are allowed to have sex with other people, so long as they ask their spouse first. What Will says about this arrangement:

"Our perspective is, you don't avoid what's natural and you're going to be attracted to people... And if it came down to it, then one would say to the other: 'Look, I need to have sex with somebody. Now, I'm not going to if you don't approve of it. But please approve of it.'... In our marriage vows, we didn't say 'forsaking all others'. We said 'you will never hear I did something afterwards'. Because if that happens the relationship is destroyed."

This CANNOT be true. This is WILL SMITH. and while it is not my intent to judge someone's marriage and how it could possibly work, this is one of the media's ONLY healthy relationships, and how can they just sleep with other people and still say how completely in love they are with the other person, and FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY AND GOOD, THIS CANNOT POSSIBLY BE A GOOD IDEA, SMITHS.

3 comments:

Chris said...

it sounds like polygamy. but since polygamy isn't legal in the us, they've found a way around it.

it really sounds like, they had a conversation like this, "Ok, let's get married. But here's the thing. I can't be 'held down' to one woman the rest of my life. I know you don't want to be held down either. Let's make a compromise, let's agree that we can have sex with other people but still call this a marriage. We'll both ask permission so that either one of us won't get upset and divorce the other. What do you think?" "Ok, sounds good!"

this smells like a marriage of convenience. since when is marriage about convenience? marriage is about love, which itself is a continual choice. this kind of thing makes me want to vomit or write a paper on the dysfunctions of open relationships.

allisonnicole said...

boo smiths. that is pitiful. argh.

shelooked18 said...

will smith is gay and jada pinkett is a lesbian... i swear this is true mara. i have connections in hollywood who told me such things :) they got married so they could cover for one another and keep their homosexuality private

p.s. john travolta is also gay.