The hosts of The View interviewed The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor stars Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello. The interview was short and mostly consisted of Whoopi Goldberg and Fraser reminiscing about a past film they had both worked on. When conversation gravitated back towards the latest Mummy , Fraser was applauded for his ability to act opposite CGI characters, while Bello was applauded for refusing an epidural during the birth of her son.
Now, from my point-of-view, Fraser has a more distinguished film career and more general “name power,” so I can accept that he dominated the interview. I also understand that the choice to give birth without medication, in this day and age, absolutely merits conversation, particularly on a talk show that draws a predominantly female audience. I just found it compelling that most of the conversation directed towards Fraser concerned his acting, while the only questions that Bello really responded to were about motherhood.
I don’t watch The View on a regular basis, so I don’t know if the male and female guests on the show are routinely treated differently. The segment does make me think back to the very non-political interview of Michelle Obama that made the rounds on YouTube, though. Does anybody watch The View enough to know if this is a pattern? Am I just catching the show on all the wrong days?
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The View is regularly like this.
Am I just catching the show on all the wrong days?
Any day in which you've watched The View is a wrong day.
Except from The View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNC117UYsHs
That show disgusts me more than it entertains me, so I choose not to watch it.
I enjoyed a few episodes when Rosie was on, but, frankly, I can't stomach it now. I am embarrassed for Whoopi, apalled by the ignorance of Sherry and Elizabeth is symbolic of so much I do not like in this world...Joys humor and Barbara Walters are just not enough to get me to watch that hideous example of insulting media.
I dislike the fact that they were promoting "I Kissed A Girl" w/o making any mention of the far superior Jill Sobule song of the same name from 95'.