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charliesmumI know we're all sick of Tom Cruise, so this is the last thing I'll say. I promise. I just want to get it out of my system:
Dear Tom Cruise:
You are an actor. A fairly good one, really, for a while there you were really taking some risks, taking roles other than the 'pin up boy' roles you'd gotten famous for. Remember "Born on the Fourth of July? No one really cared too much about whether or not you were gay, or why your marriages failed. Your job was to be an actor. You did it well, (though I personally have only seen four of your movies) and everyone was happy.
But now you've decided to pull a Mel Gibson and bring your personal beliefs into your professional life, and I don't think you realise how stupid it is making you look.
It's fine if you have personal crusades, and work tirelessly to make sure they get the recognition and help they deserve. Look at Sting. People think Sting, they think Rainforest preservation (or, you know, Tantric sex, but let's not go there) but he doesn't jump up and down on people's couches and shout down interviewers who don't agree with him. He just makes his music, and donates time and money to the causes he believes in, and again, everybody is happy. (Especially Trudy because, you know, tantric sex.)
You, on the other hand, are just being annoying. Really annoying. I'll be the first to say I agree with the idea that some medications are getting prescribed too quickly - I've resisted for awhile now the school system's hints that my son should be on meds. Right now he is doing okay, and I'm not drugging my son just to make the teacher's lives easier. However, if it came to a point where all methods have failed, and he is actually slipping in his recovery, or suffering in school, then I would reconsider it, because I've seen how it can help.
And as for depression, the whole 'snap out of it' philosophy doesn't always work. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be here today if I hadn't been given anti-depressants when I was a little girl. Yes, it shouldn't be the knee-jerk reaction the second someone walks into a doctor's office, but credible psychiatrists usually try other methods first, to make sure that the drugs would be the most appropriate solution. And maybe if my grandmother had gotten medications, she wouldn't have shot herself to death when I was fifteen. (And until you carry a baby for 40 weeks, and give birth to it, and have all the hormones in your body go crazy while at the same time you are adjusting to getting zero sleep because the baby is up every hour needing to be fed, just shut up about Post-Partum depression being solved by vitamins.)
You've already proven yourself a gullible idiot by playing the "Nazi" card when it comes to psychiatry. Just because L. Ron Hubbard said it doesn't mean it's true. The man wrote science fiction stories, for Pete's sake. Get a clue.
I truly hope you are actually paying attention to what people on the internet are saying, because I have yet to see anyone really stand up and defend what you said. I'm sure your Scientology buddies are all "You go, girl" but so far the average person thinks you're an idiot.
Oh, and War of the Worlds? I'm sure it's a great movie, after all, it did well when it was called Independence Day.
Done now.
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charliesmum
Dear Tom Cruise:
You are an actor. A fairly good one, really, for a while there you were really taking some risks, taking roles other than the 'pin up boy' roles you'd gotten famous for. Remember "Born on the Fourth of July? No one really cared too much about whether or not you were gay, or why your marriages failed. Your job was to be an actor. You did it well, (though I personally have only seen four of your movies) and everyone was happy.
But now you've decided to pull a Mel Gibson and bring your personal beliefs into your professional life, and I don't think you realise how stupid it is making you look.
It's fine if you have personal crusades, and work tirelessly to make sure they get the recognition and help they deserve. Look at Sting. People think Sting, they think Rainforest preservation (or, you know, Tantric sex, but let's not go there) but he doesn't jump up and down on people's couches and shout down interviewers who don't agree with him. He just makes his music, and donates time and money to the causes he believes in, and again, everybody is happy. (Especially Trudy because, you know, tantric sex.)
You, on the other hand, are just being annoying. Really annoying. I'll be the first to say I agree with the idea that some medications are getting prescribed too quickly - I've resisted for awhile now the school system's hints that my son should be on meds. Right now he is doing okay, and I'm not drugging my son just to make the teacher's lives easier. However, if it came to a point where all methods have failed, and he is actually slipping in his recovery, or suffering in school, then I would reconsider it, because I've seen how it can help.
And as for depression, the whole 'snap out of it' philosophy doesn't always work. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be here today if I hadn't been given anti-depressants when I was a little girl. Yes, it shouldn't be the knee-jerk reaction the second someone walks into a doctor's office, but credible psychiatrists usually try other methods first, to make sure that the drugs would be the most appropriate solution. And maybe if my grandmother had gotten medications, she wouldn't have shot herself to death when I was fifteen. (And until you carry a baby for 40 weeks, and give birth to it, and have all the hormones in your body go crazy while at the same time you are adjusting to getting zero sleep because the baby is up every hour needing to be fed, just shut up about Post-Partum depression being solved by vitamins.)
You've already proven yourself a gullible idiot by playing the "Nazi" card when it comes to psychiatry. Just because L. Ron Hubbard said it doesn't mean it's true. The man wrote science fiction stories, for Pete's sake. Get a clue.
I truly hope you are actually paying attention to what people on the internet are saying, because I have yet to see anyone really stand up and defend what you said. I'm sure your Scientology buddies are all "You go, girl" but so far the average person thinks you're an idiot.
Oh, and War of the Worlds? I'm sure it's a great movie, after all, it did well when it was called Independence Day.
Done now.
Love from
charliesmum
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on 2005-06-29 12:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2005-06-29 07:56 pm (UTC)I actually remember honest-to-God gas lights on the streets, even. I live in Germany, in a fairly big city, but back around 1960, the suburbs still had men go about each day at dusk/dawn to light/extinguish the street lights. I found it quite fascinating as a kid. By the mid-sixties, even the city limits had switched to neon.
My son always seems to think that kind of thing only happened in the Dark Ages, and is clearly boggled by the fact that his very own mother (who owns both an iPod and a cell phone) remembers this actually happening.
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on 2005-06-29 08:07 pm (UTC)My husband LOVES Germany. He was stationed there when he was in the Army, and hung around for a bit after.
I have an MP3 player and a cell phone. And still think, 'gosh, this is the coolest thing, ever!'
*nods*
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on 2005-06-29 08:24 pm (UTC)