Small moves, Ellie, small moves.

December 13, 2007 9:42 PM

Did anyone not know about Jodie Foster?

*Ahem*

She's gay.

Via

posted by ikahime (36 comments total)

Stupid CNN, breaking that sexy glass closet.

(Okay, this comment was just an excuse to show that great Out cover again.)
posted by rokusan at 9:50 PM on December 13, 2007

Old and busted: Jodie Foster. New hotness: Queen Latifah.
posted by Guy Smiley at 9:51 PM on December 13, 2007

Stupid CNN, breaking that sexy glass closet.

First Jodie Foster, next Anderson Cooper?
posted by zardoz at 9:52 PM on December 13, 2007

Yay. Now she should inspire some chick to shoot the president.
posted by Schmucko at 9:57 PM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]

I liked it when she said "we're a very long to fart".
posted by tellurian at 9:58 PM on December 13, 2007

I fervently pray for the day when this sort of thing doesn't matter. I really hate that it does.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 9:59 PM on December 13, 2007 [4 favorites]

No wonder I always thought she was so gorgeous and dreamy...

*ahem*

Regardless, this is not an appropriate front page post.
posted by loquacious at 9:59 PM on December 13, 2007

Well, I actually thought she was celibate or something. In fact, foster (it sound's like) didn't say that she was a lesbian per se just that this other woman played an important roll in her life. Oprah also has a female friend who plays an important roll in her life as well, but is straight.

I also personally knew a girl who was very 'asexual' (or so she claimed) but you would have thought she was a lesbian, from her haircut and how much time she spent with her "roomate".

I think there are some women who are just not very sexual, and end up in the 'lesbian' box because they end up 'partnering' with women like them.
posted by delmoi at 10:04 PM on December 13, 2007

I fervently pray for the day when this sort of thing doesn't matter. I really hate that it does.

I think about this a lot and I think that the only way it will never matter is if humans somehow stop being interested in having sex.

So I think that the best that we can hope for is humans finally just getting to the "unless I'm interested in intimacy and/or a relationship with this person, it doesn't matter and it's none of my damn business" - or barring that, I hope that the worst we'll settle for is "OMG ARE THEY IN THE AVAILABLE POOL OF HUMANS THAT I'D LIKE TO MAKE OUT WITH THAT WOULD ALSO MAKE OUT WITH ME!1!?!" which wouldn't be all that bad, comparatively speaking.
posted by loquacious at 10:05 PM on December 13, 2007

No wonder she wasn't turned on when that crazy guy flung his hot sperm on her from a jail cell. It all makes sense now!
posted by stinkycheese at 10:08 PM on December 13, 2007

Yeah, so we all knew already. And?
posted by miss lynnster at 10:09 PM on December 13, 2007

mushroom mushroom mushroom mushroom JODIE FOSTER JODIE FOSTER

I once saw Jodie Foster punch through a cow just because it was blocking her view of her life partner.
posted by loquacious at 10:11 PM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]

Single-link celebrity sexual orientation post. Thin.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:12 PM on December 13, 2007

I also personally knew a girl who was very 'asexual' (or so she claimed) but you would have thought she was a lesbian, from her haircut and how much time she spent with her "roomate".

Yeah...she was fucking her roommate silly. Anyway.
posted by "Tex" Connor and the Wily Roundup Boys at 10:12 PM on December 13, 2007

I think about this a lot and I think that the only way it will never matter is if humans somehow stop being interested in having sex.


What if we just stopped caring about who other people were having it off with?
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:13 PM on December 13, 2007

Spare me from MetaFamer.
posted by infinitewindow at 10:13 PM on December 13, 2007

This is a FPP, why?
posted by cmgonzalez at 10:13 PM on December 13, 2007

Everytime I see this stuff I think "God damn mind your own business". Then I remember I clicked on the link. I don't know whether she's gay never me the woman. But neither do you. And CNN, Jesus how the mighty have fallen.
posted by Rubbstone at 10:14 PM on December 13, 2007

Is this the worst Metafilter post? I think this might be the worst Metafilter post.
posted by metaly at 10:14 PM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]

So...you're posting to tell us about an assumption of something we already probably assumed? An assumption of tabloid fodder, to boot?
posted by Roman Graves at 10:15 PM on December 13, 2007

FWIW, The Brave One isn't quite as bad as it looks.
posted by muckster at 10:16 PM on December 13, 2007

In more important news, Dexter didn't get a Golden Globe nod for best series. Horseshit.
posted by Roman Graves at 10:17 PM on December 13, 2007

in fact, foster...didn't say that she was a lesbian per se, just that this other woman performed an important roll in her life.

quite so.
posted by bruce at 10:18 PM on December 13, 2007

Yeah, I kinda have to agree with miss lynster. This is entirely a case of "so what?"

Let me tell you something. The only people who care about this are the womens magazines. The ones that obsess over make up, clothes, and what Angelina Jolie is wearing and eating. The magazines who are staffed by vacuous 35 to 40 year old women who haven't realised that gossiping is something only teenage girls do at high school and who haven't realised that high school is, in fact, over for them.

"Oh my god, did you see what [celebrity of the moment] was wearing?" "OH. MY. GOD. Did you see who [celebrity of the moment] is dating?" "OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD. [celebrity of the moment] IS GAY!!! FRONT PAGE FUCKING NEWS!"

Seriously people, this is a waste of paper, brain power and, in the case of this post, time and front page Metafilter real-estate. So someone famous is gay. Big deal.

Let me give you a goddamn hint. Instead of imitating what Paris Hilton is wearing... instead of gossiping about what Britney is doing... instead of reading trash sites like this, check out this website. That's the kind of stuff we really should be caring about, people.
posted by Effigy2000 at 10:21 PM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]

^ wikipedia had it first!
posted by hortense at 10:22 PM on December 13, 2007

Chicka, chicka, chickabee. / T'ee an me an t'ee an me. / Ressa, ressa, ressa me, / Chicka, chicka, chickabee.
posted by not_on_display at 10:28 PM on December 13, 2007

effigy2000, you're going about it the wrong way. Try this, instead: "I totally heard that Burmese protesters are really butch lesbians! OMG!!!!!!"
posted by stavrogin at 10:30 PM on December 13, 2007

Let me give you a goddamn hint. Instead of imitating what Paris Hilton is wearing... instead of gossiping about what Britney is doing... instead of reading trash sites like this, check out this website. That's the kind of stuff we really should be caring about, people.

Hmm... No.

I don't care about human rights abuses any more than I care about what Paris Hilton is wearing. You're free to try to convince me tha I ought to feel otherwise, and I promise to keep an open mind, but I really doubt there's a compelling argument you can make.
posted by "Tex" Connor and the Wily Roundup Boys at 10:31 PM on December 13, 2007

I suddenly feel needed!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:37 PM on December 13, 2007

Caring about Paris Hilton's clothes more than human rights abuses?! I think my compelling argument is in the '?!'.
posted by algreer at 10:39 PM on December 13, 2007

"effigy2000, you're going about it the wrong way. Try this, instead: "I totally heard that Burmese protesters are really butch lesbians! OMG!!!!!!""
posted by stavrogin at 4:30 PM on December 14

Heh.

"I don't care about human rights abuses any more than I care about what Paris Hilton is wearing. You're free to try to convince me tha I ought to feel otherwise, and I promise to keep an open mind, but I really doubt there's a compelling argument you can make."
posted by "Tex" Connor and the Wily Roundup Boys at 4:31 PM on December 14

Well obviously I think you should care, but I'm not going to try to convince you to do so. I guess the simple fact that you don't care what Paris is wearing or what kind of genitals Jodie Foster is fucking is enough for me.

Equal opportunity apathy; I can dig it.
posted by Effigy2000 at 10:39 PM on December 13, 2007

Instead of imitating what Paris Hilton is wearing... instead of gossiping about what Britney is doing... instead of reading trash sites like this, check out this website.

Then why aren't you there instead of here in a thread about Jodie Foster? OMG how can you live with yourself???
posted by justgary at 10:43 PM on December 13, 2007

"Then why aren't you there instead of here in a thread about Jodie Foster? OMG how can you live with yourself???"
posted by justgary at 4:43 PM on December 14

I was there earlier. But I take your point about my presence not being needed here. I apologise for my spray up-thread, everyone. It's just that this kind of shit really gets to me, for some reason.

I'll leave now.
posted by Effigy2000 at 10:46 PM on December 13, 2007

I don't care about human rights abuses any more than I care about what Paris Hilton is wearing. You're free to try to convince me tha I ought to feel otherwise, and I promise to keep an open mind, but I really doubt there's a compelling argument you can make.

How about we tie you to a board, lay you down at 45° poor water on your face? I bet that "argument" could "compel" you just about any which way.
posted by delmoi at 10:46 PM on December 13, 2007

So she's cracking open the closet door. Whatever. Yay.

Can we talk bout the fact that her life partner/close-but-nonsexual-friend/etc. spells her name Cydney? Eeek.
posted by rtha at 10:47 PM on December 13, 2007

There are only two sexual orientations, those that will fuck me and those that won't.

All other details are superfluous, though sometimes delightfully salacious.
posted by afflatus at 10:49 PM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]