Here’s an interesting and amusing op-ed about how Tom Cruise has inadvertently furthered the cause of Brooke Sheilds.
Funny:
Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer discussing postpartum depression. Hmm. What’s wrong with this picture?
Do you think Katie Couric and Brooke Shields would go on national TV to discuss the best way to treat male pattern baldness?
“Trust me, Katie, some guys could really benefit from minoxidil.”
“Puh-lease. All they need to do is rub their skulls and eat hairy foods, like peaches.”
Yes, generally it’s better to leave discussion of any illness to people who have experienced, studied or treated it.
Also – let’s not forget. Tom and Nicole ADOPTED their kids. He has no experience, first-hand, with a pregnant woman, or a postpartum woman, and has no idea what he is talking about. (Of course, try to picture arguing that with him, and you’ll see the problem. I’m sure he has been personally responsible for helping “postpartum-ly depressed” women “step off” drugs, or … enrolled them in a good step class maybe?? … We all know that all they really need to do is just exercise. I am sure he could tell you a million stories about his first-hand experience. But the fact remains: YOU DON’T KNOW, Tom.)
But again: gotta love Brooke Sheilds. She just came out publicly and thanked him, saying that her book sales have skyrocketed, and she has been getting BAGS of letters from women and men all over the world, who have either experienced postpartum depression, or been married to someone who experienced it.
He knows! He knows the history of this stuff, Sheila. Xenu taught him.
“…apparently whenever he’s on break from programming Katie Holmes.” HAHAHA
I love when something bad or lame has unforseen good results, contrary to the intentions of the person responsible.
“Puh-lease. All they need to do is rub their skulls and eat hairy foods, like peaches.”
I am going to be laughing about this all day long.
I don’t know. I’m trying hard not to think the word “paternalistic” when I think about Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer talking about postpartum depression (and Cruise’s insistance that people with it can “just get over it”). But you know, that’s kind of like not trying to think of an elephant after someone tells you not to.
Yeah, ricki, like when my friend Jill’s husband told her he didn’t want her to have pain-relieving drugs during labor (safer for the baby, blah blah blah) because “after all, it’s my baby too.”
She said, “Yeah, well, it may be YOUR baby, but it’s MY vagina, so you can GET OVER IT.”
AAAAugh! Elephant! Vagina!! AAuughhh!!!
:: clawing at scalp, running out of the room ::
If I get post-partum depression, do you think Tom would send over his trainer for me to use a few afternoonsn a week? And provide a nanny for the baby while I’m working out?
Just asking.
Seriously, I do know that exercise really is a great tool for depression. I know this. However, after giving birth to a baby, with all those hormones running wild… um, yeah, I’d want the stronger stuff.
Like Chrisanne once said to me when we were talking about her menstrual cycle moodiness:
“No Uterus, no opinion.”
I stopped complaining. Period.
I love Chrisanne.
Heh, heh, “uterus.” /beavis
“Puh-lease. All they need to do is rub their skulls and eat hairy foods, like peaches.”
At the same time???