Ashley Judd Has Some Questions For You

“I hope the sharing of my thoughts can generate a new conversation: Why was a puffy face cause for such a conversation in the first place? How, and why, did people participate? If not in the conversation about me, in parallel ones about women in your sphere? What is the gloating about? What is the condemnation about? What is the self-righteous alleged “all knowing” stance of the media about? How does this symbolize constraints on girls and women, and encroach on our right to be simply as we are, at any given moment?”
 — Ashley Judd, the best person to ever call into Car Talk, wrote a thoughtful response to media speculation that she’s had plastic surgery or gotten old or fat or ugly.

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