Brangelina: the media plays the Blame Game

Last month the earth stopped spinning on its axis, the sun forgot to rise and the seas dried up – Hollywood’s Adam and Eve were no more, Brangelina was a wrap. The media blew up with speculation and scoop-searching that gained more momentum than a myriad of other arguably more notable events.

Frustration over unequal media coverage is an age-old issue and a tough one to crack, however, the split of the power couple revealed more truths about the media than its obsession with celebrity culture. For not unlike the Heard-Depp fiasco, last month's episode of Hollywood's Divorce Diaries shed light on how the media and society blame successful women for their marital breakdown.

In Angelina’s case, the story fed right into the hands of this recurring narrative for it was she who filed for divorce, thus ending the Golden Age of Brangelinadom. Instantaneously, poor, miserable, heartbroken Brad was suddenly the victim of the cold-hearted, merciless Angie who obviously felt zero emotion when she initiated divorce proceedings. How dare she do that to Brad? To her children? To the world?

In fact, what many people seem to have forgotten is that Angelina is a woman living in the 21^stcentury and not the Middle Ages, meaning she has the actual right to dissolve her marriage for whatever reason she may choose.

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