Cydney Bernard is Jodie Foster’s lesbian lover, but there’s no shame in that. Jodie always politely declines requests to discuss Cydney Bernard or her private life, but she and Cydney Bernard have been in a committed relationship since 1993.
Jodie Foster is often referred to as a “mombian” because when you are bringing up kids together with another woman, being a mom brings you out of the closet. And yes, Cydney Bernard was present at the birth of both children, Kit and Charles. She is essentially their full-time “mombian” figure while Jodie is the breadwinner.
After Foster gave a large sum of money to the Saban Center for Health and Wellness, her sons got to have plaques on the walls with their handprints embedded in them. The names on the plaques? Kit Bernard Foster and Charles Bernard Foster.
In case the name connection eluded you, Bernard is the last name of Cydney Bernard, the woman who is Foster’s life partner. Oh yeah, they also wear identical rings…
Here are some pics of the “mombians” being all domestic:
Jodie, Cydney, and their children.
More family togetherness for the Bernard Foster clan.
Is Jodie Foster Gay?
Jodie Foster recently granted a rare one-on-one interview to More Magazine, the publication for “mature women,” and opened up about aging in Hollywood, plastic surgery and privacy.
And on the latter topic, Jodie Foster kept mum about her sexuality, never once discussing her long rumoured partner Cydney Bernard and, true to form, keeping it vague when it comes to her kids. However, each child’s middle name is Bernard.
Wikipedia says: “Because she has lived with producer Cydney Bernard for many years, some people assume that she is a lesbian, but Foster has not made any public statements regarding her sexual orientation.”
Then again, she hasn’t been on a date with a man for 14 years either!
The IMDB says: “Has been in a serious relationship with Cydney Bernard since they met in 1993 on the set of the movie Sommersby.“
Yes, living together for 14 years could be considered a serious relationship. Raising children together with no male ever being named as the father might be a tiny hint that Jodie is indeed in a lesbian relation with Cydney Bernard.
Cydney Bernard was born in 1953 and last worked in Hollywood in 1997. Her most recent credits:
- Bean - Unit Production Manager (1997)
- Loch Ness - Production Manager (1996)
- The Client - Production Supervisor (1994)
- Sommersby - Production Coordinator (1993)
- L.A. Story - Production Coordinator (1991)
- Cold Feet - Production Coordinator (1989)
Perez Hilton, the Queen of All Media, posted a new Jodie Foster-Cydney Bernard photo on 9/03/07 showing the two of them loading up groceries into a minivan. How domestic is that?
Again, there’s nothing wrong with their lifestyle because life is all about making honest choices that fit who you are and what you want to be. And now you know everything there is to know about Jodie Foster’s relationship with Cydney Bernard.
Tags: cydney bernard, jodie foster, jodie foster gay
September 14th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Jodie is a good Actress and she is with this other woman who is also a great mother to her sons which is great.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:25 am
she looks lesbian in her movies so there is no surprise…
September 15th, 2007 at 11:32 am
The comment by John Ledgerwood is just the asinine type of remark that is the reason Ms. Foster doesn’t discuss her private life. If this idiot was lucky enough to date someone as beautiful as Jodie he’d jump at the chance.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
So what if she is a lesbian? It’s nobody’s damned business but hers, Cydney’s, and to a lesser degree, the father of the two boys. What is important is that she keeps herself out of the limelight, is indeed a very talented actress and equally as beautiful. Being born under the sign of Scorpio makes her independent, secretive and extremely private, with lots of sex appeal. I agree with Jeff Sorrell above 100%
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
People, let’s not pass judgement on others, can’t we all just get along. Here’s two intelligent women who obviously love each other, isn’t love better than the hate!
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:40 am
I think it shows real class not to parade her personal life before the cameras. More celebrities should emulate her.
November 4th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Jodie Foster is among the most beautiful and talented actresses of all time. The fact that she is a lesbian and whether she chooses to reveal it is her own personal choice. I really wish the media and people would stop sensationalizing the issue and let them live in peace. I think the reason most celebrities are reluctant to reveal their sexual orientation is because people are still so hopelessly backward and narrow-minded that they tend to judge people by their sexual preferences. The media also spares no opportunity to turn their lives into a sideshow.
I really wish people would grow up…
November 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Parampreet Says that hae wishes others to grow up. That’s funny because homosexuality IS psychological regression as well as repression of the life process.
We live in a society that our head is metaphorically disconnected from our body. We live in our psyche while at the same time viewing the body as an ‘it’, just something that we drag around behind us. The ego (ego-consciousness, that bit of us that we feel as an ‘I’) is there a priori to assist the rest of the psyche which in turn is there to assist the body and the entirety of the being as a whole, NOT seize control OVER the body like a mental tyrant and make the body a toy, something to use and abuse to our mental whims. Quite rediculous.
Very telling how in wealthy western cultures we have a simultaneous poor relation with matter (with the body) and are quite disconected from proper relation to it, and it shows in everything from fits and bouts of overcompensation, to destroying the ecosystem, to shaving off all body hair (including pubes, almost as if there is the wish to remain as a prepubescent child and gitting rid of the trappings of development and our animal heritage).
No other species makes this sort of conscious decision to work against itself, but we do. And we think we are so great.
And regarding Jodi Foster, I don’t find her attractive, never did, and it’s not just because she acts a little ‘mannish’.
November 19th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
To the fools who think homosexuality is no one else’s business, you need to engage your brain.
After you engage your brain, recognize that all the pedophile Catholic priests were molesting little *boys* yet you never once heard one newscaster say they were “homosexual” pedophiles. Why? It would be obvious to you if you weren’t so brainwashed.
Sexual perversion is exactly that and your hatred of everyone who tells the truth about it (while *pretending* “can’t we all get along?”) shows your duplicity and willful blindness.
Boys and girls are *different*. Any fool can see that. For anyone to become perverted in their sexual orientation ruins not only their lives but a host of others. The denial of this reveals the lengths people will go in pretense and the power of evil to control people’s hearts.
If you ever do engage your brain, recognize that the queer communities demand to be called “gay” is precisely because they’re NOT. Their suicide rate is among the highest and they struggle with guilt and shame and their pretense *and yours* helps NO ONE.
Someone should tell the truth and I just did. Now, we’ll see how much “love” those who think “we should all get along” have for me and if they’re truly willing to be “tolerant” of my point of view.
Sexual perverts and those who justify them are the biggest two-faced hypocrites there are. They talk love and acceptance UNTIL you disagree with them. Then they mouth venom and hate.
I’ve said not one word of hate towards sexual perverts. I’ve simply told the truth that they are perverted, selfish and hurtful to others. This example of Jodie Foster is a great example. It’s not enough for her to be perverted in private, but she takes two little boys and devotes herself to corrupting their hearts, minds, and souls… and some of you fools think that’s OK. That’s not OK; it’s child abuse.
And to the fools who want to PRETEND, “they were born that way!!!” … you’re a liar and so is everyone else who says so.
Everyone in life is tempted to do evil. Governments are instituted to control evil people. It’s a terribly sad day when the evil of sexual perversion is declared not evil and every society that’s ever done so has been destroyed.
Get a clue.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Gary Sellars’ rant is reminiscent of numerous conservative political and religious public figures who were stridently anti-gay right up to the moment they were outed as gay and/or pedophiles.
“Me thinks he doth protest too much.”
November 30th, 2007 at 3:01 am
Gary Sellars:
You are a pompous asshole. It’s people like you who are responsible for the high gay suicide rates.
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Prove it beyond reasonable doubt.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Oh for crying out loud! I’m a married straight woman do I need to go around yelling it to people or prove it? So why do people in same sex relationships need too? Love and commitment are the same whether it is same sex or opposite. I know people who were raised by same sex parents are they are better adjusted than a lot of people raised in traditional homes. !
December 5th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Jodie Foster acknowledges Cydney Bernard in acceptance speech for Sherry Lansing award:
In a surprising and moving speech on Tuesday, Jodie Foster, 45, thanked “my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss” when she accepted the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the 16th annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast.
The award is named after the former chief of Paramount Pictures, Sherry Lansing, who told the Associated Press that she was “overwhelmed to be presenting it to Jodie.”
The L.A. Daily News reporter covering the event, Greg Hernandez, noted surprise “at the public acknowledgment of who I presume is Cydney Bernard, the woman who is widely reported to be her life partner,” because Foster has always been “so intensely private.”
In her speech, which the Daily News described as “funny and heart-warming,” Foster went on to say, “I don’t feel very powerful. I feel fragile … unsure, struggling to figure it all out, trying to get there even though I’m not sure where there is … I’ve been working in this business for 42 years and there’s no way you can do that and not be as nutty as a fruitcake.”
Characterizing herself as a “professional” and a “gentleman,” Foster admitted: “I always feel like something of an impostor. I don’t know what I’m doing. I suppose that’s my one little secret, the secret of my success.”
But, she added: “Growing up, there were hardly any women in my professional sphere — there was maybe a script supervisor, the makeup artist and the lady who played my mother. I became the prodigal daughter after I proved myself in a family of men.”
December 6th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Hilarious how judgmental, programmed, condescending and thoughtless the gay defenders are. They act like all this pro-homosexual cant fell from the sky from the mouth of the gods.
Jodie is a helluva talent, but extremely misguided and cruel in her decisions. Her sons are not pieces on the chess board of her life, but actual individuals who deserve and would enjoy permanent male figures in their lives to model themselves upon & reassure them.
The selfishness of gays and their partisans knows no end when it comes to justifying their unnatural proclivities.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:30 am
How disappointing and cruel the hateful comments are. The USA (failing empire) has become such a hateful country. I’m SO tired of America.
December 6th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Thank you, Ann Edwards ! I’m an open gay woman, living with another woman and although I have never been ashamed of my sexuality, I don’t feel the need to yell it from the rooftops.
To all the non-believers, take my word for it, gay people are born that way. I would not “choose” this if I could be different. Why making your life more difficult by”choosing” to be gay and to be discriminated against ??!! It just doesn’t make any sense. I have accepted who I am and live my life happily in a serene manner with the woman I would to grow old with.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
how can some people such as John Sellars be soooo rude. you were born straight, so you hav no idea that people can be born gay. and sayin that they just do it to be sexual preditors is wrong, that is like sayin all muslims are terrorists!
ur a fooool!
December 9th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Dang…I am really dissapointed in her lifstyle CHOICE!! Yes it is her choice and she lives in America so she can have it. I will never beable to watch her again in a hetero role…wont seem normal now. Still think she seems nice, just dissapointed in her choice and wish she would have stayed “in”. This will truly hurt her beautiful children. Awww Jodie….wish you could have normal sexual attraction. I too have the right to express how I feel.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Oh my!! John Sellars you really sound a bit wound up. Im guessing you’re a big old closet case who hasn’t had sex in years, if ever!!
I’m a lesbian and love it. You’re comments hardly insight hatred, simply because you’re ridiculous. It’s like you’re throwing a tantrum because nobody is listening to you. It’s laughable because nobody is listening to you. You and you’re mis-guided ideas are so old to the stage of bordom. I really hope one day you find somebody who will have sex with you, male or female, just so you can let go some of that pent up frustration.
Have a nice life:)
December 10th, 2007 at 10:32 am
p.s I’d soooo love to sleep with Jodi Foster, you think she is coming to Ireland anytime soon???:)
December 10th, 2007 at 10:36 am
As for Venusfly trap, do you have spell check on your computer??. Looks like you don’t. Maybe before you post you’re banal and tiresome comments on the web, you might do us all a kindness and structure you’re sentences properly.
Thanks
December 11th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
lulz!
December 12th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Mitch, I know what you mean. Finding out that an actor or an actress has been living a lie…well, I feel your pain.
I hate to break it to you, but I found out some pretty disturbing shit about Tom Hanks, too. Did you know he’s not an astronaut? He never found the Holy Grail (I don’t even think his hair was real) and he sure as hell never worked in a 1940s prison with a magic mouse. He’s not the train conductor on the Polar Express and he’s certainly not a 10 year old disguised as a 40-something year old. What a crook.
Basically, Mitch, you frighten me. Foster doesn’t have to be straight to play straight roles. It’s A-C-T-I-N-G, Mitch, it ain’t real.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Jodie is hot!!!
December 12th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Never be able to watch Jodie in a hertero role again? It’s called ACTING and she must have done a good job, eh? How many male actors are out there on the down low or gay/bi, yet we buy their professionalism?
It’s entertainment, people!
December 12th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Yes she is very hot indeed:)
December 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Oops, it’ hard to imagine that people of the USA react in the same manner as people from remote rural areas such as the Afghan border settlements.
The USA was the land of the free, now it is more the land of the scared, scared and ready to be religiously ruled like Saudi-Arabia.
Poor free minds, creationism is all you’re missing in the evolution.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
All you gay opposers need to get it through your thick impenetrable conservative heads- being gay isn’t a ‘lifestyle’ neither does it have anything to do with choice. Just like being white, male or STUPID doesn’t
December 12th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I have never heard a more judgemental group of people in my life. For those of you who claim to be christians, JUDGE, LEST YOU BE JUDGED!!!
As for Jodi Foster, her private life is non of my business. Just as your private lives are non of my business.
As for comparing pedophiles to gays, pedophiles like children you ranting fool!!!. Are you telling me that a pedophile who only engages in sex with a child of the opposite sex is still gay? Perhaps you should go back to school and educate yourself a bit better.
Now, as for being the land of the free and the home of the brave… you are only free in America if you believe in the same way as the majority. God help you if your opinion varies from the masses.
You can not even publicly say that you feel as though your leader is a moron without the FBI making a file with your name on it.
You will never be a truly great society until you stop diminishing the spirit of others so that you may build up your own sense of being.
Treat your neighbours and those around you like they are your friends and family, and then see how they react to you. Kindness is contagious.
Merry Christmas, or whatever religion you follow.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
It’s time for you all to grow up. Before she received this award. you did not care who she was sleeping with. Now that you know, all of a sudden she is a bad person and mother. Most people would give anything to find that special someone to spend the rest of there life with. And when it comes to her kids. You have no right to say anything about them. They are being raised by two people who love them. That it hard to find in this world today. She is a great actress and I will go and see any movie that she is in. She has not disappointed me yet…
December 12th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
I am so disappointed. Jodie is too beautiful to be lesbo.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Jodie has that rogueish twinkle in her eye that’s sooo exciting! I’m not gay, but I’d love to kiss her for hours and hours…
December 13th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Coleen wrote, “Most people would give anything to find that special someone to spend the rest of there life with. And when it comes to her kids. You have NO RIGHT to say anything about them.”
As mentioned by fellow homosexual proponents who bash the USA for not being “open-minded” and “free” to choose what to believe and how live sexually, I have a RIGHT to voice my opinion “about them.” If Jody comes out and mentions her “personal” life out in public, then I will and can express my opinion.
I guess am only an open-minded, free-thinker in your book IF I am in line only with YOUR opinion. So much for liberal free-thinkers, you hypocrites!!!!
December 13th, 2007 at 10:14 am
she should have come out. ages ago. period. people with more to lose have done it. i’m sorry that it involves sacrifice. i believe that’s called “life” however, and we all have a collective responsibility to one another in the areas in which we can make a difference. picking and choosing is sometimes short of the mark. shirking this responsibility in the name of privacy is not good enough. not today anyway.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:20 am
All I have to say is that it’s so sad that she’s a lesbian because I’m a dude. ::sniff sniff:: =(
Oh, and in response to Gary Sellars:
When you’re willing to come out of the closet, we’ll all be here waiting for you and willing to accept you for who you are. =D
December 13th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I concur with BAS to a certain degree. Of course there are bigots on the extreme of one end; they can be easily dismissed.
IMO, the opposite view can, at times, be just as disturbing/annoying.
The “liberal free-thinkers” (as BAS put it) want their sexual preferences respected and not questioned. At the same time, they are appalled by those with more historically traditional sexual preferences, and who dare to have a criticism of their way of life.
You can’t have it both ways.
Personally, I have issues with two “women” raising boys. I also have an issue with the Ellen DeGeneres “in your face” you-are-an-idiot-because-you-are-straight style also. I at least applaud Jodie Foster for keeping it quiet and low-key. Sexual preferences should be kept private and not thrust upon others as a weapon or a bargaining chip.
Anyway…my two cents.
December 13th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
[...] a secret as open as the Grand Canyon that Foster has been stepping out with film producer Cydney Bernard for years, and that they are raising Foster’s two children together. The surprise is not that [...]
December 13th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Jodie Foster and lesbian lover Cydney Bernard at Flightplan premiere:
Jodie and Cydney never appeared together at premiere events in the US, but often stepped out together at overseas events like this one for the movie Flightplan two years ago.
December 13th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
For those of you who support Jodie’s decision to stay in the closet because it’s not anyone’s business, it’s private, and it doesn’t matter anyway: You’re all missing the point. The reason Jodie stayed in, the reason anyone stays in, is because of the kind of homophobic hatred we see in this very thread. If you’re straight you can have a private life, cuz no one is out to judge you or get you. But not if you’re gay. If you’re gay you have to decide every minute of every day whether to come out and what will happen if you do. Jodie didn’t stay closeted so that you can all be comfortable. She stayed closeted for her own and her family’s safety. And she paid a price that perhaps she feels she should be done paying at this point.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Gary Sellars is just another Jerry Falwell in disguise.
No wonder America is such a f*cked up mess with morons like him running loose.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Gary Sellars !!! I totally agree with you!
December 13th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Jodie, Hot, Talented, classy. Gart Sellers, wimp, weak, splinless. Get over it.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
I totally agree with BAS and Gregory House. There are extremes to everything. Everyone in America has an opinion so if you don’t like someone else’s and think they shouldn’t have one, then go ahead and take yours and stuff it too. That’s America and freedom of speech.
I love Jodie Foster and don’t really care if she is a lesbian or not, and as far as her children, I think that children can have bigger parental problems than two loving parents. Her children will probably turn out bad because their rich rather than being raised by lesbians.
Oh and I’m a conservative Christian. Wow. We are really all alike. Get a clue people. Every time someone makes bigoted remarks does not make them conservative Christians. Look at James Watson and explain that! Many people who are gay are intolerant of people who are not like them and likewise. This is called hypocrisy and prejudice and it effects everyone not just Christians!
December 13th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Jeez, Mike, being upset with Jodie for being a lesbian because she is beautiful says more about you than your statement could ever say about Ms. Foster. I would like to see Jodie in more films - and better choices - more variety. She’s way tooo talented to be overshadowed by the likes of Reese Witherspoon or Ms. “I’ll have one from each country” Jolie. . . Besides beauty, Ms. Foster is smart as a whip, has a real sense of self, and probably learns her lines and cues while discoursing on French existentialism. She’s the kind of woman that I would be proud to call my daughter.
December 14th, 2007 at 2:39 am
I dont care Jodi is a great actress!!! I love her, and enough about this Gay stuff man! Who cares whos gay. People are people, let them love who makes them happy. Sheesh! Nobodys jumping into bed with you so relax!!!
December 14th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Just because you have the “right” to say what you want to say, doesn’t always mean you always should. There is a human element involved here; and I believe our fore- fathers did not intend to write the first amendment so that hatred and bigotry could become wide-spread. I think they gave many of us too much credit thinking that we would realize that this amendment was made to “PROTECT” people rather than abuse them. Instead, people use this wonderful privelege to inihilate others and use the amendment as justification for doing so.
For those of you saying that the “liberals/gays or sympathizers of such, are infringing upon your rights to say you hate gays etc… TRY AGAIN…they are using there 1st amendment right to say they disagree W/ what you are saying. So for the morons crying about your “rights being infringed upon” because people don’t like you, when you say mean things about other people; you are doing exactly what you are accusing them of doing to you. YOU are infringing upon their right to disagree w/ you.
These are PEOPLE you are hating- and for no reason that has ANYTHING to do W/ you. This is a FAMILY-that’s it! No shame should be involved here. I’m sure Jodi And Cydney could find a whole hell of alot more disfunction in the house of you haters, than you would ever find in theirs. ie minds so small they hate people for loving each other.
Wehave the “right” to do so many good things for ourselves and each other… too bad the only people I ever hear shouting the “I have my 1st amendment rights B. S.” are the ones interpreting the 1st amendment as a justification for abuse.
It’s real easy to be a big-mouthed hater while sitting behind your computer. In this situation anonymity is a tool for cowards.
PS This is no longer a conservative issue. Why even ol’ Bush, himself was on Ellen the other day and gave sincere congrats to Cheny’s Daughter, stating publicly that “she would be a good Parent.”
Catch up to your Cowboy leader, all you “conservatives”.
Get a grip.
December 14th, 2007 at 11:50 am
It is just as bad to hate someone because s/he is gay as it is to hate a person because s/he is left-handed. That being said, it is important to remember that God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
Live, love, and let live.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Why is it that the only time homophobes ever bring up pedophilia is when they’re talking about man-on-boy? Funny, I could have sworn girls are far, FAR more likely to be molested… BY MEN. Does this mean heterosexuality in men is a perversion?
Homosexuality can’t be perversion because animals have gay relationships in nature. Yes, even outside of a zoo, where at least you could blame the stress of being confined.
Pedophilia, however, is always perversion because you only ever see it in domesticated animals, and it never has a good outcome.
As for Jodi “looking lesbian”–huh? How does one “look lesbian”?
December 14th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
To all homosexuals - Please ignore the idiotic, obviously IGNORANT rants of these poor uneducated, unenlightened people who will eventually know the truth of it all…one day. Don’t feed into their hatred and/or ignorance.
December 14th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Leave these ladies alone and let them raise their kids. Those two little boys looks perfectly happy & healthy and are obviously very much loved by Jodie & Cydney.
I do think, however, I figured out who the Baby Daddy is years ago, and if I’m correct, which I do think I am, he’s even been a gentleman enough (when he usually isn’t!) about keeping things private. I’ve watched Jodie grow up and turn from cute little kid to beautiful young woman. Now she’s a happy Mom and has the love of her life with her. How many people, straight of gay can say that??
December 14th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
The constitution was created to protect you (us) from the government…not each other. I, as a normal citizen, can not infringe upon your right to free speech (ie: your right to publicly display how much of an idiot you are).
The constitution was created to say ‘the man’, unlike the monarchy across the way, would not lop off your head for implying the king/president/diety-of-choice is a bit of a putz.
So, you have no right to free speech with me. I can ‘infringe’ upon you all I want and there’s really nothing, constitutionally, you can do about it.
People just seem to use this excuse as a reason to be heard because, unfortunately, they think they have something to say that others want to hear. Generally, this isn’t the case.
But this problem isn’t isolated to just America. Stupid is quite prevalent. We, as Americans, just tend to grab on to a few words we heard somewhere that we don’t really understand and use them as an excuse to be a bit more obnoxious and overbearing. So, while it’s easy to lump stupid people together into categories…such as Christian, conservative, American…it’s not entirely accurate. Much like lumping homosexuals, pedophiles and satan into the same bucket paints an inaccurate portrait.
Everyone has an opinion and they all think it’s the right one. I agree. It’s completely right…for YOU. If you don’t agree with Jodie’s lifestyle, more power to you. Hope all that works out for you. If, however, you do agree with it and/or you happen to be homosexual yourself, good luck with that. You’re all right and you’re all wrong. That’s not the American way…that’s the human way.
There are over 6 billion different opinions on this planet and all of them think they are the ultimate, number one, best of the best, super duperest opinion of them all. Now tell me why yours matters.
It doesn’t. It doesn’t matter to anyone except you. Which is the way it should be. You find what works for you (the pole or the hole in this case) and you go with it. What works for you may not, and in most cases won’t, work for anyone else. But that doesn’t matter. It’s YOUR opinion and it’s YOUR life. Worry about that. Not someone else.
When the time comes that you have found perfection in everything you do, a time where there are no more worries, wants or needs in your life, you have achieved everything and want for nothing, when everywhere you go people gaze upon your perfect person with envy and worship the ground you walk on…then you can come worry about my life, my opinions, criticize my choices and tell me how to be a better person…the ‘right’ person.
So she’s gay. At least she’s happy. That’s more than a lot of people have. It’s something most people spend thier entire lives trying to find. At least she didn’t squander her time harshly judging others, thier choices and the happiness they have. That would make a person seem…bitter. Or jealous. Or just stupid.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I’ve read the worst and the best that this site has had to offer. What can I say that hasn’t already been said. Superfluous redundancy comes to mind. I’m a gay male, 36 y.o. . I will not preach on a pulpit. I will not sing to the choir. I will not orate form a soap-box. Do you see the pattern forming here.
Here is a novel concept:
Happy Kwanzaa
Chewbacca Day
Winter’s Solstice
Merry Christmas
Hanukkah
Peace on earth and good will among men, women and children(no matter what their preference is)
Live life and love—-and let live,let love and let life live.
Peace out……..I’m 86-ing this clambake to trim my tree.
December 14th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
as a 13 yr old i believe the gays in general are a breed of evil ,satanic lifestyles will only lead to a hot place,and it is not south florida.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I can understand still being foolishly judgmental as a thirteen year old.
Perhaps all those comments by those who are so frightened by two people of the same sex loving each other are also in the thirteen and under set?
December 17th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
So here I am reading this very excited she came out cause well, GOOD FOR HER! YOU GO! I’m glad she can say who she is now and that shes happy. Happy is great.
To all you gay bashers MORE SO for Gary Sellars:
When you do come out, I will be sure to give you a pride flag and lube tips.
And I know some people are not homosexual and if your not and are anti gay - I betcha some of your best friends are gay, bi or at lest curious. I bet you love them and care for them, I bet you think they are a great person and you have no clue. Some of my best friends are straight, weiiiiird.
And um yeah when you call gays “pedafiles” it seems to me you don’t know what the heck that is. A pedafile is going to go after any gender.
And I didn’t get Jodi saying “I’M HERE I’M QUEER!” I got she was telling the world how much she LOVES her partner. What’s wrong with that? If a straight person was on tv screaming there love for someone no one would think twice.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Oh pardon my spelling. I was in a hurry while typing.
December 19th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Once again, as usual, the sexually perverted prove that they’re the haters… and the liars.
Read their comments and mine above (#9) and you’ll see how deceived and what deceivers and haters they are. That is, if objectivity is more than just a word in the dictionary to you.
I hated no one. I just told the truth.
Homophobic? Nonsense, though it’s true that I wouldn’t want a sexual pervert hitting on my children. That, however, is not “homophobia,” it’s loving my children.
Sexually perverted people cannot reproduce, therefore, recruitment and seduction are their only options. It’s my responsibility as a loving parent to not want them to do it at my children’s expense. Calling that “homophobic” is exceptionally dishonest.
Jodie happy? You’re deceived. Collect any random 100 pictures of her and see how many suggest the woman is happy. She’s not. She’s miserable and listening to her talk reveals how mixed up she is and she admits it in this thread. But don’t let the truth faze you.
The sexual perverts and their supporters won’t let the facts sway them. Neither will they tell the truth about it.
Read #15’s comments again.
Liars lie and sexual perverts are liars. Their perversion is *built* on lying to themselves. You should read that again because you probably didn’t get it the first time. In order to publicly “come out” they’ve had many thousands of lies they’ve chosen to believe without letting the obvious truth break through their own delusion that sexual perversion is just that — it’s perversion. The natural order is so plain that it can’t be missed UNLESS one simply consistently lies to himself until he’s completely deceived himself.
That’s not hate. It’s sober-minded reality. Calling it hate is hate… and terribly DISHONEST.
Again, sexual perverts are made, not born. Quit lying about it. Jodie’s mother is a lesbian also. Did you know that? Jodie grew up with that wicked spirit in her home. It’s not surprising it lives in her. And to the liar that wants to pretend that there is nothing to “looking like a lesbian,” you’re just showing others how much you lie to yourself. That evil spirit of sexual perversion can and does change the way people look, the way that talk, the way they act, the way they carry themselves. It also ruins their conscience and eats them up with guilt. Most people can see this. Your protestations otherwise only show your dishonesty.
Again, just because you’re such liars, I’ll say it again:
I don’t hate sexual perverts at all. Not even a little. And clearly, from the comments here, it’s certain there’s far more hatred coming towards me than is coming from me. It’s the perverts who’re the hypocrites. Face the facts.
I do not hate the perverts like Jodie and her mom who want to pass perversion on to their kids (as they both have done and are doing — even adopting to insure the perversion will be passed along) and neither do I hate the perverts who molest kids (physically, not mentally like Jodie and her mom have done).
Read that again; because your hatred is blinding you to the plain truth I’ve stated already. I’m not the hater here; you are.
It’s popular to condemn and hate child molesters, but the very real fact is that almost all of them are the recipients of molestation and they’re trapped in the perversion and abuse that was fostered on them. I don’t hate them eith, though you might — those of you who so hypocritically condemn me because you’re so full of hate. But I’m not.
I don’t even hate the haters who lie about my comments and my person, even though they don’t know me but *love* to judge me *and hate me* (while hypocritically screaming for me to stop judging and hating — their hypocrisy would be funny if it weren’t so sad).
The liars (sexual perverts and their supporters) are the haters, not those who tell the truth that sexual perversion not only destroys the life of the one perverted but contaminates many others.
Saying so is not hatred; it is much closer to love, but I won’t claim I love those I don’t know; that seems just a little pretentious.
Telling a perverted person that they’re fine and not perverted is not love; it’s foolish. It’s stupid. It’s wrong. It’s evil. It’s certainly not love.
I’ve simply told the truth and the perverted don’t like to be confronted with truth, and their hatred exposes their bad hearts and their hypocrisy and their empty words of “tolerance.”
… and their gnashing teeth will continue… haters don’t get over it quickly and they don’t shut their mouths.
Remember, since the sex drive is so strong, the inner dishonesty to protect oneself from the truth is extremely strong also. This is why the hate is so vigorous.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Jody Foster….finally
Garry what’s his name….mind your own business. it’s not up to you to discuss someone’s personal life. sexual perverts are found more between heterosexuals, so you don’t tell bull here. i think that you are more of a pervert even to talk and think about things you said above. shame on you.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Jodie Foster….finally
Garry what’s his name….mind your own business. it’s not up to you to discuss someone’s personal life. sexual perverts are found more between heterosexuals, so you don’t tell bull here. i think that you are more of a pervert even to talk and think about things you said above. shame on you.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Gary Sellars is very amusing. Clearly he has a lot of hate in him, and tries to hide it. Infact i dont even think he realises it… And why call homosexuals “sexual perverts” if you dont have hate for them? There’s no reason for that, being gay does not make you a pervert. People and animals have always been gay, it’s natural.
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:49 am
Memories of what Foster went through with John Hinckley, Jr. seem to be short, or at least knowledge of what happened. He stalked her. He shot former president Reagan in relationship to his obsession with her. I believe that she has been scrupulous in keeping her private life private because it protects the people she cares about and offers less fuel for crazy people who become obsessed with celebrities to fire themselves up with.
If any celebrity has had a valid reason to keep as much about her private life under wraps as possible, she does. In fact, it’s unfortunate that others do not do exactly the same thing rather than parading their trashy lives out for media attention as a way of increasing their name recognition (and later whining when they get what they begged their publicists to do for them).
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Sorry for her.
B wrote
“People and animals have always been gay, it’s natural.”
Well,first this is not currect,if it has been considering a possible growth rate of this NATURAL behaviour humans and animals would have been extincted by now.
There are many logical/scientific and moral reasons that we can discuss about this matter.
This is not the right place nor i am the knowledgeable enough to discuss about the matter of homosexuality,but as i can think and see like any body can,i see what is happening nowadays,homosexuality is advertised in media and in society through diferrent ways.From music videos,movies,to even Harry Potter books.
I have a quastion: if ppl just say this matter is a matter of privacy and at the same time it is publicized like normal act,and in the name of privacy we ignore the matters that can bring down the very foundations of family?Will ever humans live like humans or they will just put on the shell of human and empty from within,after all humans are social creations,in the name of privacy we can’t ignore what is bringing life values to its knees,this is not just about homosexuality,it is also about many other things,like violance,pornography(which magically the name has changed to Adult Entertainment-well devil changes names),killing innocent ppl sucking up their oil and blood and call it War For Freedom.
Unfortunetly life in the 20-21st century has forced people to live in a semi-virtaul-less-social life in which they think they are free when they think they have the right of free speech, but they are covered under the sandstorm of the mass media and in reality their life is shaped by an outter more powerful system,this is a semi virtual freedom which in you think you are free but in fact your way of thinking is the product of continous media reign.
Freedom is an illusion.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Too bad that she is a lesbian. It’s not right and not acceptable.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Thank god ! I’m so happy not to be American!!!
December 30th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
As for Venusfly trap, do you have spell check on your computer??. Looks like you don’t. Maybe before you post you’re banal and tiresome comments on the web, you might do us all a kindness and structure you’re sentences properly.
Comment #22 KAI: My dear child. There were no misspelled words n Venus’s post, only a subject verb agreement. I’m suspecting that you don’t know the noun “cant.” However, in your own precious post, you misuse “you’re”…..Though perhaps you mean “structure you are sentences”?
December 31st, 2007 at 3:02 am
Gary Sellars is a sad case. He obviously has not been getting any good sex lately. Man, quit your stupid and, yes, HATEFUL ranting. Find some love, find some sex, get a life!!!
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:10 am
No, Gary believes that some all-powerful, thought-policing, bearded man in the sky created all of us with the capability and imagination to live in a whole host of ways, but apparently created a bunch of flawed creatures who are constantly tempted by some horned beast.
The book you (and blue, for that matter) are referencing was written by MEN, possibly the biggest successful dictators in all of history. So successful, in fact, that you will subjugate yourselves down to your deepest thoughts. These men are now followed by other men who now control you, using this ridiculous book and fantastic fairy tale to take your money and control you.
And a word of warning to everyone else here; the tolerance that you correctly speak of
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 am
(sorry, posting broke)
…is something they truly hate. They have proved that they’re trying to take over our country (at the least), using their little tooth-fairy story as an excuse.
Being gay is not only not an abomination, it’s just plain part of the human condition. Gay people are still people, not a lessor human being, but an equal human being. No book will ever change that.
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Interesting comments.
Frankly Ms. Foster is one of our greats, just a little sorry the mystery about her is now “out”.
I consider Ms. Foster in the same category as the great Garbo.
For those judgemental folks with their negative meanspirited comments, don’t through stones. We all are made in the image of God the Higher Power, and it is the Spirit of the Power, that has allowed mankind all the differences that that exists amoung us today. Remember the song in Sunday School, Jeasus loves the little children, Red, & Yellow, Black and White. I daresay that includes all the sexes, and loving couples and parents.
Hey man, don’t let it bother you, learn to love. That is all that is asked of we earthly beings.
I love Jody and her family.
January 5th, 2008 at 3:31 am
to atheist:
“No, Gary believes that some all-powerful, thought-policing, bearded man in the sky created all of us with the capability and imagination to live in a whole host of ways, but apparently created a bunch of flawed creatures who are constantly tempted by some horned beast”
Are you in Gary’s mind?
This well shows your imagination of God,as your name implies “atheist” and your imagination of God,it is not odd you deny him,even i would if i had such an imagination.
Well it is not the right place to discuss a matter that has been a question mark (?) since the human opened its eyes to life.
“The book you (and blue, for that matter) are referencing was written by MEN, possibly the biggest successful dictators in all of history.”
By MEN?Dictators?
I assume you mean Bible and other Holy Books.
By MEN? How this MEN all said the same thing in different eras in differnet places,centuries apart,continents apart.
Dictators?Bother yourself and read Bible first,Jesus is the dictator?
What do you call dictatorship?what’s your freedom?free of all responsibilities?free of morals?
Mr Atheist:
Your imagination of dictatorship,describes your freedom.
Your imagination of God justifies your denial.
Not odd you are an atheist,but a question?Do you even know what are you denying?
January 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Wow. Quite a few comments here. I am a Christian who also happens to be a Libertarian. I am 24 and married to an amazing women. I am a writer of all sorts. I love film, wine, literature, nature and jazz. Why am I saying this? Because there is such a stereotype of Christians in the media that is either made by the Christians themselves (TBN, Pat Robertson etc.) or by left wingers.
Frankly, I can’t stand most of the arguments about Jodie being a lesbian. The problem is that both sides are trying to convince the other side that they’re wrong. While I do disagree with her particular lifestyle I’m not going to judge her for it. I trust in the same way, people will not judge me for the way I choose to live my life. Like anything else, the best example is seen, not heard.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Wow! Where do I begin.
I’d just like to say …
… be kind, treat others as you’d like to be treated and respect all.
Cheers :o)
January 24th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
GOOD FOR JODY!
Live and Let Live, and mind your own business everyone.
If your Gay, GREAT If not, GREAT! People should leave each other alone!
February 5th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
The first photo you post is not of Jodie and Cydney.The woman in the grey shirt handing Jodie the blue bag was taken on the set of “The Brave One” while filming in Time Square in NYC. The woman in the photo is her stunt double Jill Stokesberry.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:54 am
they are not married? just lesbians.. oh, her love to the husband (dead one) in the movie “the Brave One” was played very well..:) i still like her as an actress..
according to US statistics lesbian couples are 167% more likely to split than heterosexual couples.. so i would not think of it as of something serious by now, lets wait..
does father of her children has visiting rights?
i hope he does.. you never want to lose your children..
I can think of two reasons most people (including me) don’t like lesbians/gays 1. homosexuality is a sin according to bible. 2. it’s just not right (it has nothing to do with true love).. But I have to agree that it is normal..
people are free to do what they want (if it’s legal)..
it has nothing to do with her performance..
But being her i would not release this info, she will definitely lose some of her audience..
February 14th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
She doesn’t talk about it why should we?
February 24th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Blue
Have you ever researched the bible? What about all the writings that were not included in the bible because they didn’t quite fit with what the council wanted the book to say?
What about all the times the eccumenical councils met and edited the bible to suit its purpose and message? The belief in reincarnation used to be included in the bible but was edited out because it gave power to individuals rather than the church.
Ever likely Jodi Foster never came out. Had she told the world that she was living with a man ‘everyone’ would have been been happy for her whatever the bloke was like. The fact that she is with a woman means she has opened up herself and her family to abuse . The fact is (and it is a fact) that the vast majorty of crimes of a sexual or violent nature are committed by hetersexual MEN. Perhaps we should all be more concerned when a woman announces a relationship with a man!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Very few scientists still believe that homosexuality is a choice. Geneticists have enough proof to suggest that a person’s sexual preferences are already set at birth. You might as well blame a person for being born with blue eyes. I know this might “terrorize” some of you, but really “getting a clue” requires reading and education about genetics. Sure, some priests are pedophiles, while many “straight” men are rapists. A person’s sexual preferences do not necessarily determine inhumane behavior. Loving, kind human beings come in all flavors. Unfortunately, so do violent, prejudiced ones.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Sad to see another yet another human gloating about their sin.
Hey, Terminal, being born gay doesn’t excuse you from expressing it. We’re All born sinners, but God doesn’t excuse us from expressing it just because we’re born with it. Jodi needs to repent just like the rest of us. I may be born with an inclination to be deceptive and lie, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be judged for doing it. The same is true for Ms. Foster. She may be born with an inclination to be sexual with women, but that doesn’t mean God won’t judge her for expressing it.
God has clearly told us that anger, rage, deception, lust, and homosexuality are sins (among many others). So we’re certainly no farther ahead by bragging about it. We’re farther ahead when we turn from it and receive healing and forgiveness.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Gary, I really would not wish to be one of your children, you sick, hateful little man. It’s a testament to the triviality of procreation that a creature such as yourself is capable of breeding. You’re exactly the kind of dishonest, narrow-minded, hate-filled, fear-driven, squalid ur-human who would claim that children have a choice over their sexuality and who would not stint with the rod to help them make the right choice.
Good luck with those S&M parenting skills.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Hi Brad,
I reckon that the fact that God didn’t make stupidity a sin suggests that a) he knows his customer base, and b) he’s laughing about it.
Also, your statement ‘Hey, Terminal, being born gay doesn’t excuse you from expressing it.’ means something quite different from how you *actually* meant it.
I’ve often wondered why people such as yourself don’t hook up with the extremist Islamics, because you have far more in common with that tendency than you ever will with thinking, functional, decent human beings.
You and people like you make this world a place of stinking cess.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Jodie rocks and I value her wise decisions regarding these choices that are up to her. What other way could she be able to keep things as incognito as possible? Obviously, just because a person is smart, talented, and makes it in Hollywood, does not mean they like all this scrutiny.
We don’t know the personal whys and hows of Jodie Foster. All we know is the radiance of her great acting talent……Maybe she feels more trust with this person than she would ever have with a man. So much that this person would be in her life forever…Now whether she is gay, I prefer not to know and let her be whatever she chooses, as I will love her irregardless. She seems like she would make a cool friend to know.. so there !
April 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Congratulations to Jodie and Cydney! Great field of work. To the rest, who should care? Honestly, get a life!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
This is not a subject up for our approval or disapproval. Why is it on a site for discussion?
And #16, if you don’t like America, please be “our” guest and leave!
#58, Gary Sellars, He just likes to make people think he is an intellect, I think more so, tying to convince himself of it.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Some food for thought:
Madeleine L’Engle once wrote, “We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn’t need defending.”
Quit judging.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:51 am
Jopplynn, perfect quote….thank you. Gary, first learn to spell, it won’t help in any way except for, well no reason except it annoys me. Brad, Brad, Brad….why are you here looking at the pictures of Ms. Foster and her partner to begin with? It’s difficult just to stumble onto this website. I’d say you both regularly make these comments on every site you can, cuz you like the sites to begin with, and you like the attention it brings you. As far as mixing homosexuality in with the seven deadly sins, well more so venal and/or a loose interpretation of the 10 commandments *which does NOT mention homosexuality* , pray tell me WHERE besides two mentions in leviticus and romans (paul being the father of all misogynists) is homosexualtiy mentioned in the bible? Hmm?? I believe Jesus might have mentioned it at some point if it was such a big burn in hell deal. Remember what he said when asked what the most important commandment was…”First…and this above all else, love God with all your Heart and all your Soul and all your Mind…..Second ONLY to that Love your neighbor as yourself.” It’s ok if you want to dig up some obscure verses to justify your own difficulty with sexuality–hetero or straight…,but I’d think you should be equally as upset about Lot offering his daughters to the crazy mob to be raped so he wouldn’t be bothered. Or perhaps as upset about the fact that Methusalah had some bears eat up some kids that poked fun at him. You do a great disservice to Christianity in particular and Faith in general by your terrific intolerance and hatefullness. I’m not in the least afraid of standing before my God. But I might suggest you do a bit of reflection on loving your neighbors as yourself before you make your appearance before your God. *See, I did have a point…..that last line? Well, that’s why you can’t love others.* Finally
Ms. Foster is a class act, a superb actor and by all accounts a wonderful mother who contributes time, money and energy to her community. Tell me boys, what have you done lately besides pick your nose and bitch about the lesbian and gay community?
April 21st, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I’ve been reading all of this from the lovely UK, and I am appalled by the comments of Gary Sellars, but heartened by so much of what I have read. Gary is a very dangerous human being with very dated and prejudiced views. I feel very sorry for him that he has to live each day with a head full of hate. It must be so tiring to hate so much.
Gay people are not abominations, dangerous, crazy or sexual deviants. They love the same as heterosexual people and too right. Gary is obviously someone who has never experienced love in his life because he is so preoccupied with putting everyone else down instead of opening himself up to the gay relationship he so obviously craves but can’t bear to release himself from his dark personal closet.
Cydney and Jodie have proven themselves to be good parents and are not doing anything illegal. They are a family like billions of people all over the world who are raising their children in a beautiful home.
Best of luck to them and have a nice life Gary - something tells me that karma is about to bite you on the ass though!
May 15th, 2008 at 2:38 am
COMMENTS 8 & 9 ARE SO UNBELIEVABLE TO ME…WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE COME FROM? POSSIBLY A CENTURY AGO?
THE SHEER IGNORANCE OF JOHN & GARY TOPPED WITH A VERY NARROW MINDED, JUDGEMENTAL AND NEED I SAY IGNORANT VIEWS ARE WHAT MAKES ME ASHAMED TO BE ONE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES….I WISH I COULD BE A FLY ON THE WALL ON THEIR JUDGEMENT DAY WHOAAAA IS GOD GONNA GIVE THEM A PIECE OF HIS MIND!
THEY ARE VERY SAD, LONELY, PATHETIC, MIS-INFORMED PEOPLE WHO ARE OBVIOUSLY HARBOURING DEEP SEEDED HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES OF THEIR OWN. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT THE MEN WHO SEEM TO BE THE MOST OUTRAGED BY GAYS ARE USUALLY THE ONES WHO ARE BOBBING BO-BO ON THE DOWN LOW….HAHAHAHAHA
May 15th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Over the years I have heard the rumor that Jodie Foster was gay and wondered if they were true, but never really cared as whatever her sexual orientation is it does not take away the fact that not only is she beautiful but intelligent. She has done well to keep her private life her own. I am as guilty as most people in being curious about the real lives of movie stars, especially those one admires. I like reading about their lives and such, but Jodie Foster has always managed with class to keep life her own. I wished that Rosie O’Donnel had done the same, I thought she was funny and talented, and she probably still is, but her banter and behavior has left a lot to be desired and unfortunately I no longer enjoy watching her, though it has nothing to do with sexual orientation I am just comparing how classy Jodie Foster comes across. Ok Ok, and because even though I am straight, I might forget that if I ever met her in person….kidding.
You are born with the desire of same sex relations, no one in their right mind would chose a lifestyle that discriminates them, belittles them, chastises them, etc.
Here is one straight person that endorses civil unions among homosexuals, it might not be enough to some, but with baby steps eventually we can all be equal.
Peace and Love.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:40 am
… and now the love affair of the century has come to an end. Jodie and Cyndy (like so man dyke relationships) have ended in nasty fighting. Those poor little boys are going to be shuttled back and forth between two fighting dykes.
God knows there is nothing uglier than two dykes in a dead relationship, both wanting to be the Drama Queen and the Woman Victim to all their friends, both wanting the other dyke to play the Evil Male, both sniping viciously at the other.
And these poor little boys.
Couldn’t the state take them and give them a good hetero home before these two dykes and their vicious fighting totally screw them up?
Couldn’t they find their real father–find a man–and give them to him to love?
May 17th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Gay Lifestyle is a mental illness.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I personally do not see what we are so afraid of here with regards to sexual orientation. Sure certain religions claim that it is somehow a sin but in order for that to stand we would have to all believe in that religion and that meaning of those statements within that religion. Some may find it threatening for other reasons outside of religious beliefs, reason I cannot think of other then simple fear of what they can comprehend or understand.
Further as far as the arguments go about whether it is a biological predisposition, a lifestyle choice or mental illness or even the question of same sex relationships being harmful to the development process of their children ext…I think the jury is still out on all points. There is no conclusive scientific evidence for any particular theory. So as a argument none of these stand.
As a result what are we left with. A human kundrum, so what universally acceptable reason do we have to deny someone who is gay any of the right’s a heterosexual person has. Sorry but unfounded fears does not qualify as good reason nor does a particular religious beliefs in a pluralistic society.
We live in an imperfect world. Hopefully one day we will have a better understanding but for now we don’t; is that so hard to accept.
What are we so afraid of…
May 19th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Awww….people people people…..When are pepole gonna finally realize that being gay is no more of a choice than being male, female or even straight for that matter. If you dont get it, thats because youre straight, and that too is fine. I am a PROUD lesbian and kaep that inside for a long time denying it to myself and never felt like I trully lived. Now, I embrace it, because that makes me who I am. What is with these people who shame your sexual orientation? Fact is, it has nothing to do with sex at all….individuality is where its at. And who in their right mind thinks thats someone like Jodie is “lieing” to them by keeping her private life private? What does she owe you anyways??
May 19th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
The fact that Jodie Foster is and always has been a lesbian proves the point of those who believe that it’s nurture, not nature that determines such things. She was raised to be a lesbian…not that there’s anything wrong with that.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I love Jodie Foster’s acting. I’ve had nice homosexual friends and I didn’t really pass judgement on them. I think there’s valid arguments on both sides and everyone’s entitled to them.
But consider this. If everyone in the world became homosexual, because there’s nothing wrong with that (right?), then that would be the end of reproduction for our species, no? Oh, unless you use sperm to impregnate yourself. Which shows that sperm and egg (heterosexuality) ARE the basis of the natural world. But fine, minorities like homosexuals should have rights too. It’s just that it’s being emphasized as such a great thing, that you’re wrong not to follow. Doesn’t media influence the masses? Many are too blind and go along with anything. I grew up in a communist country where homosexuality never crossed my mind (media was controlled, not to say they didn’t exist). Coming to N. America and being bombarded by it on TV, gay-pride parades and so on, almost makes you doubt your own sexuality (aka the overused teenage whining about trying to find themselves and rebel). Homosexuality can be genetic but it can also form through lifetime experiences.
It may or may not be perverse but that’s not the reason it should be wrong. If anything, going along with the male-male or female-female unions, why not human-animal or adult-child too? Animals make nice companions (plus, has anyone seen sick pics of girls “doing” horses and dogs?) and pedophiles don’t think they’re doing anything wrong. These are people too and they should have the freedom to screw whatever they want right? Where do you draw the line? There’s a reason why the family unit has lasted for a thousand years. What message are we putting across? In some parts of Europe for example, there are better family values and there’s more respect and less nonsense, where family is the most important thing. I’m sure homosexuals don’t want to convert the entire world (Right? Because that sounds kind of absurd), so why all this extreme influence towards them as if they’re the majority? You may say “I’m straight/Christian but I let others be what they want, it’s not my business, just accept it” but that kind of mentality/parenting might just lead to your kids/grandkids becoming homosexuals, especially with the new wave of accepting everything. And then it WILL be your business. I know homosexuals aren’t treated very well in some parts (sometimes violently) so they feel they need to make it more acceptable.
So I accept them but I don’t have to follow. Everyone has a voice right? It’s not only homosexuals who have opinions; the rest of us do too. Everyone wants rights. It’s fine to give minorities rights and live among them, but not to idolize them so much like they’re the right way. I just fear the “anything goes” mentality we’ve acquired and I sure don’t want my future son taking it up the a$$ from another guy or my daughter becoming the standard porn image of girl-on-girl action…
May 20th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
That is a little extreme don’t you think. Animals, children ext, come on, not exactly capable of wilful consent. Further, no one is talking about converting the masses that is if “conversation” is even a valid possibility. It is simply a matter of extending the right to an individual to choose to share their life with a legally consenting same sex partner.
As far as parades and news coverage and other visible activism, that is simple the pattern of evolving repression. Minorities, culturally, religiously, and ethnically ext…All organize and seek public attention in order to voice their collective concerns. You can see extroverted behaviour in any historically repressed group. The struggle to be noticed and granted the equal rights afforded to other human beings starts with organization and visibility in any democratic society that permits freedom of speech. That is what brings about change and awareness.
You may not like the message or the presentation but our society grants all people this right and good thing we do because we do not have a the best track record. When it comes to repression, as a society we have been wrong and sorry for it more than once. Whether it was the right for women to vote, to practice your religion, to speak your own language, to attend any school of your choice ext.
A side note; homosexuality poses no risk to the perpetuation of the human race we are multiplying just fine. As for relationships, after the passion and vitality of youth fads (assuming you were even fortunate enough to have this), are we all hopefully lucky enough to simply share the next phases of our life with someone who loves, appreciates and respects you. Human relationships are more complex than the exchange of bodily fluids and the creation of babies that what makes us not animals.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Cindy Mort
Jodie Foster’s new love is screenwriter Cindy Mort, pictured here with Jodie.
Apparently, Cindy Mort is the proverbial “other woman” in the breakup of Jodi and Cydney Bernard which ended their 14-year relationship.
While Foster and Bernard remain living together, there doesn’t seem to be any chance that they will get back together.
“Although she and Cydney remain under the same roof at the moment, the relationship has been shattered,” a source told the National Enquirer.
“They’ll continue to raise the boys together and try to keep a loving family unit despite their breakup. The love is gone.”
July 1st, 2008 at 6:28 pm
serioulsy, I think jodie should go back to the first women. they raised the kids, so that would have to be awkward for the boys now. but what I find interesting, is that the two supposedly split may 15 08 which just happens to be when same sex marriage was made okay in the great CA. strange???
or jodie could be smart and just get with me already….I’ll be 18 in a year. lol
July 8th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Love is God’s present.The most important is to be inlove with whom or in whom it does’nt matter. One must be proud to love. Ms Foster should think about how many happy moments they have together with Cydney. And after all 4 children they will left unhappy /as far as it is thru her new girlfrend has also 2 children with her first love/. Ofcource it is not our busines the privet life of others, but there is one Big BUT. If we the adults like to show tollerance to our children to the diferent sexually oriented people we should be more responcible. When you fell in love with someone it should be for better and for worst. After being 14 years with someone it is a matter of dignity to keep that love . To go to other and to think that be happy is only ilusion. Ms Foster by a bottle of nice Spanish wine, a CD of Jolio Iglesias, read Scot’s Fitzgerald “Fiesta” than go to your beautiful Cydney with love. And if you visit Spain together, the places you’ll read about in “Fiesta” you will discover your LOVE again.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Dear all, I am sorry Julio Iglesias is the correct name and thinking about Thender is the Night I wrote Scot’s F. name for Fiesta Fiesta is from Hemingway sorry again!
October 26th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Jodie,
I love her. She deserves for a happiness in her life. What a waste for such a beautiful women not happy in her life.
Be your self.
October 26th, 2008 at 6:19 am
I love her. She is so beautiful. You can express how to be your self.