Tag Archives: Talk Show Host

O’Donnell Engagement shows real Rosie and a cup of Joe

5 Dec

 

Michelle Rounds (left) and Rosie O'Donnell -- credit: Rosalie O'Connor

It was announced today that Rosie O’Donnell and her girlfriend Michelle Rounds will be getting married. According to Entertainment Weekly, a date has not yet been decided. In other news, the social media reaction to such an announcement has been barren. 

I looked at Entertainment Weekly’s tweets and Facebook likes and did not see much going on. So I proceeded to The Huffington Post and was mildly impressed by the turn out with only about 20 tweets and 1 Facebook response sharing the news. Just to make sure I wasn’t missing anything internationally, I went to Daily Mail, a United Kingdom news site and sure enough the announcement was published, but with only six comments at the time and no social media shares.  So what is up with this newly acclaimed OWN talk show host? 

The answer lies within The Huffington Post’s interview with O’Donnell, they asked 

Did you feel more confined as the “Queen of Nice” or “Hotheaded Rosie”?

I think probably Queen of Nice. I remember performing at Caesar’s Palace at the beginning of my show and literally halfway through my hour of stand-up I could hear people getting up and leaving, saying, “She’s not that lady from TV.” People buy into you as one image; they pigeonhole you for the narrative in their brain, who you represent in the culture or to them. Often that doesn’t have to do with who you are as a human being.

O’Donnell in her answer reveals the true nature of why social media hasn’t been sharing her story. She basically has been painted a certain way and people judge her on those already established notions. O’Donnell continued to share with Huffington her 1992 role in A League of Their Own,

I think I was kind of fortunate that my first real brush with fame was playing Madonna’s best friend in “A League of Their Own” — to go out for dinner with Madonna and see what kind of reaction she elicited in people. Fans sleeping outside her apartment or people coming up to her and telling her they liked her better blonde or she didn’t look as hot as they thought she would … I remember saying to her, “How can you live like this?” It helped me understand how crazy it can become.

Most would agree that her outbreaks on The View caused people to think negatively of her character and probably moved fans to ignore her image altogether. However I believe she is just as talented as Ellen DeGeneres, whose social media effect about her engagement with Portia de Rossi was much more viral. It is fascinating that we have two well-known lesbians, who normally cannot marry in most states, have talk show careers, and yet there seems to be a varying affect on the community. 

This makes me question if the real Rosie O’Donnell is truly owning her life and if her career and persona are merely just two sugar cubes in a cup of Joe.

People.com reports that Rosie O’Donnell met Michelle Rounds at a Starbucks this past summer. 

Virtual Yule Parties and Wishes

3 Dec

Hey everyone! Thanksgiving seems like it is long gone and now we can adjust our scopes to the Yule season. I would like to share with you that I am participating in 2 Blog Parties: Astraea Sapphire’s Almanac- Yuletide Blessings and The Village Witch- Yule Magic. They are on the right hand side of the blog. If you have a blog and love the mystical season of winter then I encourage you to sign up by clicking on the badges ( yes the fancy artsy images under my handsome face). Wait! You do not know what blog parties are? Well, heavens! We shall fix that.

A blog party is simply a blogger’s delight to encourage fellow bloggers and internet users to become acquainted with other blogger’s work by hosting a virtual party, commonly with a specific theme or purpose! A blog party usually consists of having a post announcing/inviting people to join the party, a blog party badge that redirects the internet user back to the host’s blog (some are simple and some rather creative), and finally a way for people to blog hop (yeah, kinda like bar hopping). On my other blog, I participated with Witch-Blog’s blog party called The Real Witches of Halloween. Witch-Blog hosted the party for the whole month of October. Depending on the duration, you can make an individual post for each day telling your readers to go to the participating blogger’s site. Or you can set up one master list and on a specific day, bloggers and internet users may click on the various blog participants and start soberly blog hopping. 

Being a participant is pretty simple. In order to join a blog party, you usually take the host’s badge provided and post it to your own blog. From there you can comment back on the host’s page and tell them you wanted to join. After that you can start your post for the blog party. Depending on what the host wants will determine what your post should be about. I can assure you that blog party hosts have all the details needed in their initial blog party post. So it isn’t too scary.

I think it is a cute way for bloggers to get traffic, comments, readership, and establish networking among people who have similar interests and tastes. So, I have my blog posts all scheduled for the blog parties! So come back and check it out!

 Also I am pleased to share with you that I have finished my Christmas wish list and it is online for you to see what sort of interests I have. I enjoy creating Christmas wish lists because it helps me tailor and see what my own interests are and I can see a personality in it.

You think Dr. Pepper is only sexist?

11 Oct

Not only does a 10 calorie drink being advertised as a man-only beverage unleash sexism so did a class field trip to KDKA-TV.

As my honors mass media class entered the doors for our KDKA tour today, no one would have thought that our tour guide would be sexist. And sexist to who? Me. Yes, today during the tv station tour I was called out for sitting in a chair. 

After standing on the main floor of the studio, we moved to the control deck where one person controls the cameras and the TelePrompter resides. As we make our way in this small long space, I end up in front of a chair and instead of dealing with that awkward feeling of “Oh there is a chair behind me and I am standing right in front of it, I don’t want to fall over.” So I sat down and within seconds the tour guide tells me that “Young men should not sit when young ladies are standing.”

I let her repeat herself a couple of times because I wanted to see what she is insinuating with her tone of voice. Well, I got the picture that she wanted me to move out of my seat for a girl who was around me. So I asked the girls around if they wanted to sit down. They all declined. Then I turned back to the guide and said they all said no. Well, I then asked if she herself would like to sit down in the chair. She smiled and said no. Then she muttered that we will suck it up and as she was about to turn to continue her presentation I explain to her that I am gay.

I said that because I wanted to get the point across that I am gay and by that I feel more like a woman as oppose to a straight male. I naturally feel more for women. She responded I know. And then I tell her that she was being sexist. She denied it and we repeated ourselves twice, then I quickly knew oh lets move on because obviously she wasn’t going to budge. So I say okay and with my look on my face told her that she needs to continue her presentation. 

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That was the story of the day for me. The epitome of negativity that I experienced thus far. I was appalled by the simple fact that she knew I was gay and still categorized me under gender specific qualities to tell me when to sit and when not to sit. Blatantly being sexist. It might be a misfire to manners, but like my mother said chivalry is dead. It has been dead for many years. And because I am Gay that should prescribe me with some notion that I have a feminine essence stored within my personality to relate to women and fit in more smoothly. Greater than that, no one cares about who got to the seat first. Males and Females, Females and Males are the same. 

I am deeply impacted by this situation and will not be giving KDKA my time or efforts for anything. What took place is uncalled for and even if the station is in the top 20 for the market, I rather not become sexist in any industry I choose to work for. 

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