It’s both funny and sad that people in the public eye, people who have molded and cultivated public personas and a certain reputation, have to think twice about what they say before they open their mouths to speak.
Heaven forbid they tell it like it is when they’re put on the spot. Instead, they have to calculate, weigh consequences, weigh the risk of being knocked off some pedestal because of the way they phrased something, or, in a moment of “weakness,” spoke their mind, thus losing things they’ve worked to achieve.
It becomes a risk to be honest, because it may lead to a disastrous drubbing on social media or more traditional media that tanks their chances of working in Hollywood anymore, or whatever else they’d stand to lose.
Too many concessions and compromises. People are too worried about leading nice, neat lives. It’s not about being considerate of other people. It’s more about losing one’s place in the public eye, losing status and position and opportunity.
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