I have no particular affinity for Teri Hatcher, nor bias against her (though back in the day, her breasts were both real and spectacular). The news of her childhood sexual molestation was disturbing…as is the news of any child abuse. Surely, she made a bold and brave decision to testify against her uncle and help put him behind bars. Surely, hers was a story that needed to be told – if for no other reason, than to show that such horrible acts can happen to anyone and that victims are not powerless. No one can fault her for speaking up, right? No one can accuse her of ulterior motives, right? Wrong.
Somehow, douchebag Mike Straka manages to turn Hatcher's revelation into a diatribe against America's celebrity-centric culture. Sure, it's more than a little phony when a star launches a new relationship in the tabloids just as he or she begins to promote a new project, but Straka has the audacity to compare Hatcher's story with Lindsay Lohan's bulimia…you know, because rape and incest are the same as a rich girl who parties too hard.
Straka argues that Hatcher's story should be told, but only in another time and place:
…the fact that this story comes out in a cover story for Vanity Fair after its best-selling Oscar issue ever, featuring nude photos of Scarlet Johansson and Keira Knightley, is a bit disingenuous, to say the least.
OK, so because Vanity Fair ran a few photos in its last issue, Hatcher can't tell her story in the current one? I don't see the connection here. That would be like the Vice President being involved in a scandal but not talking to any media outlets that had ever run negative coverage about him. Wait a minute…
The truth is that Teri Hatcher has no agenda other than coming clean…and Fox News has no agenda other than spreading douchebagianism around the world. Good work, sirs. Earth is a douchier place because of you.
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