From Yahoo Australia: Kate Winslet: ‘Divorce has been good for my kids’
The 39-year-old Oscar-winning actress says her two divorces have helped teach her children how to “struggle”.
“I think it’s very important to teach your children to struggle on some level,” she said.
If her rule of thumb is the more mom induced family chaos the better, Winslet is living up to her own standards. According to the article Winslett has three children by three baby daddies:
Kate is mum to Mia, 14, from her marriage to Jim Threapleton, and Joe, 11, from her second marriage to director Sam Mendes and she gave birth two-year-old son Bear in 2013 with husband Ned Rocknroll.
The Independent has a similar article.
Update: In a 2013 article (HT CCG) the Daily Mail quoted an interview with Vogue where Winslet told a different story. While Winslet now claims the suffering her divorces caused her children was good for them, she previously claimed they didn’t suffer at all:
‘People go, “Oh, my God! Those poor children! They must have gone through so much”.
‘Says who? They’ve always been with me. They don’t go from pillar to post; they’re not flown here and there with nannies.
‘That’s never happened. My kids don’t go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads – my children live with me; that is it. That is it!’
The Daily Mail article notes that this statement lead to an advertising campaign by Fathers 4Justice centered around Winslet. It also notes that one of Winslet’s baby daddies has been supportive of the group:
In 2004 Mr Threapleton spoke out in support of the group, claiming he went months without seeing Mia.
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The UC, doing what the UC can afford to do, while solipsistically assuming and preaching that what’s right for them is also right for all those of lesser means.
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“Ned Rocknroll”! He lives! I thought that was a wind-up, D. until I googled it and Fuckbuddy Rockbanddrummer he is not. Branson’s nephew, and employee. Sorted for wonga then?
Choose your babydaddies wisely, children.
“I think it’s very important to teach your children to struggle on some level,” she said.
How about teaching them how to struggle to make a marriage work? Is that too much for a strong independent woman?
It’s the same reasoning I’ve heard from parents for continuing to trust their kids to the schools, despite admitting bad things happen there: “Well, I don’t want them to grow up sheltered. I went through boot camp and it made me stronger. The hard knocks will toughen them up and prepare them for the difficulties of life.”
To which I reply, “Hey, I hear prison really toughens people up; maybe you should send them there too.” It’s one thing to look for the silver lining when you’re in a bad situation without a choice, or to occasionally push your kids into a difficult short-term situation to teach them a lesson. It’s something else to intentionally put your kids in years-long, painful, harmful circumstances and claim you’re doing them a favor.
Kate Winslet is also an example of hypergamy – she took up with the famous director Sam Mendes while still married to the practically unknown director Jim Threapleton.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-87373/Kates-ex-left-holding-baby.html
Also read this article (check out the last sentence):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525743/Kate-Winslet-threatens-sue-Fathers4Justice-advertising-campaign-attacking-saying-children-live-me.html
[D: Good find. I updated the post.]
On a business trip with my colleagues we had some time to kill, so we all went to see “Contagion.” None of us particularly liked it, but one of the guys hated it with every fiber of his being. My response to him was, “Come on… any movie where Kate Winslet’s character dies a horrible death can’t be all bad!”
OK playing the devil’s advocate.
None of these men was particularly too poor or too beta to find a woman worthy of being bestowed the title of a wife. Why in the world would any of them (except, maybe the first husband) choose Kate Winslet for a wife?
And Sam Mendes is just as much without self respect as Kate, for allowing themselves to be led by their tingles rather than by common sense and reason. Both deserve one another, and I am not sorry that their shameless lust disguised as a marriage didn’t last.
Look at that hamster spin!
I’m going to say something nice about her: If she was a proto-woman, she would have given her children varied DNA to give them a great shot at survival.
Sadly, she isn’t living in a cave, hence she is a thrice-divorced liar. I’m sure these kids will turn out great! Look at all the struggle!
It’s actually right that we need to teach our kids to cope with struggle. But to rebrand our own selfishness and sin as somehow rebounding to someone else’s benefit is like Joseph’s brothers saying it all cool they’d sold him into slavery in Egypt because look at at how many lives got saved.
“And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say), ‘Let us do evil that good may come?’ Their condemnation is just.”
“Struggle”? Oh right, the english for “jihad”, gotcher mate.
Yes. Yes, it is.
This is the new normal.
Also in “Contagion” you see Gwyneth Paltrow as Patient One. Playing the incubator of a worldwide plague, in the movie she looks tired, shopworn and haggard. In short, she played her own age.
Just like the average western woman, turns out celebrities are just regular everyday sluts.
My children live with me; that is it. That is it!’
Like a single mother in the ghetto, but with mo’ money.
If she was a proto-woman, she would have given her children varied DNA to give them a great shot at survival.
Except each new proto-husband would dash out the brains of her previous brats on the nearest available rock.
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/new-idea/a/23730251/kate-winslet-i-dont-f-k-around/
“Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet opened up in a new interview, admitting she won’t let anything get in the way of slowing down her career, not even her most current role as mum to her three children.
While the 38-year-old actress just gave birth to five-month old son Bear Blaze in December, she spoke to Harper’s Bazaar and admitted: “It’s time to get back.”
She added: “Back to the ‘I don’t f**k around’, back to the KW basics of take some serious risks, put yourself out there. And just really push it.”
Yup, can’t see any long-term consequences for the kids there. Gotta luv a grounded gal who refers to herself as “KW” (part of the Reading Massive, apparently). Narcissistic Illeism always a good sign in someone who prides herself on not being a diva. You might wonder proudly stating ‘I don’t f**k around’ after your third child by your third baby-daddy might have given even KW pause for thought.
What makes me sad is only partially how much her children will be destroyed, but mostly that society largely views Kate’s beliefs in this manner as perfectly logical.
I’m glad I never spent money to watch “Titanic”. The hypergamous ending always irked me.
“Jack! Jack! ”
“I love you Rose! Live life to the full (glub glub glub glub)”
So Rose survives, meets husband, has 3 kids. She doesn’t work – as women of those days didn’t. She gets old, and still pines for Jack Mc Rockbandrummer of her youth, with whom she wishes to be united in death.
Ungrateful bitch.
The difference from the post-wall, used up woman and the Titanic version is amazing. She is still objectively attractive but that irresistible innocent sweetness we all saw in that fracking movie has been replaced by something awful. I bet she had more than those 3 husbands. I wonder if that is a 1000 cock stare in Dalrock’s linked story. That younger look of smoldering passion is now just an angry glare.
Kate’s one of the very few pretty women to have ever come out of England.
Watch her ’98 film “Hideous Kinky” and her ’99 film “Holy Smoke”.
Its amazing how little, women actually care about children. Its really all just about them. Yet they have managed to convince themselves, and us, that they do care.
“with husband Ned Rocknroll”
Wow, even the name.
Unequally yoked marriage & trying to remain joyful
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=944770
This dude is a real hero. Wife (soon to be ex-wife)?…. not so much.
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=944880
Anti-depresants and birth defects
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=944791
“I Never Intended to Kill His Penis”
http://www.thefrisky.com/2015-02-05/teen-pours-acid-on-boyfriends-penis-for-releasing-sex-tape-on-the-internet/
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Columbia Mattress Girl Suddenly Begs for Privacy
http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2015/02/04/rape-accuser-carries-mattress/
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“The Latest Man-Crime: Manterruptions”
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/02/manterruptions-are-plaguing-the-workplace/
What’s a manterruption, you ask? According to TIME, a manterruption is, “unnecessary interruption of a woman by a man.” But if you’re sensitive to gender specific phrases, “talk-blocking” is manterruptions gender-neutral stereotype.
Cited Example: When Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift as she was accepting her award for best female music video in 2009 saying, “Imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time.”
“Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight. While it is hard to conceive of this approach being a common public policy tool in the near term, such taxation may be happening indirectly through health insurance surcharges.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/02/jonathan-gruber-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving.php
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Who wants to bet money that gender will play a part in that tax if it actually comes about?
I came across the Daliy Mail article a few days ago, and I must say the funniest comment I saw was this:
‘There will be no harder struggle than being called Bear Blaze Rocknroll’.
There is some truth to that…
This article is indeed sad to read because it is not like we don’t know by now the impact of divorce on kids.
If this article had been from say 1930, one could be forgiven on the basis of ignorance – because of course there weren’t the hoardes of children suffering the divorce of their parents at that time.
It’s a bit like smoking…if a person said ‘smoking is GOOD for you in 1930, that would be forgiveable, because it was not known at that time how bad it can be for general health.
But today, if anyone said that, it would be wrong, because we all know how bad it is.
So shame on Kate Winslet.
Well her career is intact, so of course the kids are just fine…
On another note: a woman files for divorce because her husband would not abandon their Downs syndrome son.
” The baby’s mother, Ruzan Badalyan, told ABC News that she did have a child with Down syndrome and she has left her husband, who has the child, but she declined to elaborate. ”
https://gma.yahoo.com/dad-refuses-newborn-son-down-syndrome-221817795–abc-news-parenting.html
Illustrates Paul’s prediction that in the last days, people will become “without natural affection” (2 Timothy 3:3)
Just like the average western woman, turns out celebrities are just regular everyday sluts.
Nothing regular about it. Celebrities get to whore around without ever having to realize the fiscal, emotional, or societal consequences of their actions. Hollywood (and their money) protects them from the hard realities “everyday” sluts will inevitably hit face-on.
To which I reply, “Hey, I hear prison really toughens people up; maybe you should send them there too.”
The liberals in the US are working hard on making that reality. Did you know prison and public school cafeterias are the same design? And the school buses with tinted windows look exactly like correctional facility transport.
I just watched a T-mobile add where a woman doctor was delivering a child from her “basement delivery room” (weird ad) told the couple “sorry it’s a boy”.
Saw a bumper sticker last year that said “Save dogs not men” with a picture of some dogs. Saw a license plate frame last month that said “Girls 1, Boys 0”.
You got a problem with that? Check your privilege boys the modern woman’s got your back for sure.
“Its amazing how little, women actually care about children. Its really all just about them. Yet they have managed to convince themselves, and us, that they do care”.
Ding! Ding! Ding! They care about having them.That is all.
Her career is in twilight, and the wall is coming soon, like the Passover destroyer.
She’s not going to be the next Helen Mirren. Sorry, girl.
“She’s not going to be the next Helen Mirren. Sorry, girl.”
You mean sorry not sorry.
“‘That’s never happened. My kids don’t go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads – my children live with me; that is it. That is it!’”
One day we will predictably read an article about her children going to some rehab or prison. I am sure the media will blame the absent fathers and not the psychotic celebrity mommy.
Titantic should have shown the red-pill truth, notably that Rose DeWitt Bukater mercilessly pushed a pleading Jack Dawson into the freezing ocean. Kate Winslet would have nailed that scene.
Skanks gonna skank.
I can deal with that. The thing that always sticks in my craw is the lionization of these skanks in the press and the perpetual spinning of their abysmally selfish choices into “courage” etc.
It bothers me because the underlying intent is to have the masses of regular folks emulate people like KW. Only the regular kids’ mommies and daddies don’t have tens of millions of dollars to cushion the hardships that divorce brings with it. Lionizing this skank is indirectly subjecting thousands of innocent children to various levels of misery they might not otherwise have had to endure.
That makes me angry. But if anyone dare speak the truth about her actions and call them what they are — evil. They are immediately marginalized as some kind of misogynistic religious nutcase– just another mean, narrow-minded @sshole who like to deny people their happiness.
Whatever culture is left in the West is very, very sick.
UC actually has some taste and decorum. They’d act like this, perhaps, but not in public.
https://v5k2c2.wordpress.com/2013/12/25/thieves-and-liars/
Boxer,
Tidily put.
KW: “‘That’s never happened. My kids don’t go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads – my children live with me; that is it. That is it!’”
“That is it!” Here you have an almost perfect crystallization of the feminist end game. What any particular woman wants in any particular situation “is it!” Nothing more need be considered. Ever! Damn you! Forget morality or fairness or tradition or practicality because paytreearkeeee!!!
We’re getting there…..we’re getting there. And oh what a brave new world it will be!!
One of the solutions to these issues is parents taking more of a role in who their children marry. I have a teenage daughter and I am actively looking for a good husband. She is domestic, she loves to clean, loves to cook, is not fat. Her prospective husband needs to be Christian, white, traditional, and not lazy. If you are in America and you fit this description, e-mail me at robert_engr@yahoo.com
Winslet is a real piece of work, but mostly just a potty mouth whore who cares for no one but herself.
Nice little bit of the Female Imperative in this story – My kids, for a start. Mine, me, mine. This is what one version of matriarchy looks like. Her kids are “stronger” only in the sense that they can cope with her whims, that does not make them actual independent, self sufficient people.
Riffing off of Cail Corishev, when actresses crib from dorm-room Nietzsche in the “whatever does not kill me, makes me stronger” sense, they generally are just posing for a camera. I”m sure she’d never consider dropping one or more of her kids with some group in the outback, to learn survival for a week. Because that would require letting her kids learn something from someone not under her control.
In many cultures, a boy is raised by his mother until the age of 5 to 7, then he goes with his father. Wonder why that is so common? Must be a konspiracy of teh Patriarchy, couldn’t just be something that “just works”. But I don’t know, I have missed so very many, many sekret meetings of the Patriarchy, I”m way behind on my konspiracies.
Robert, my entire website is devoted to your conundrum.
http://www.courtshippledge.com
Scott
Robert you better get that teenage daughter in a youth group of some sorts. That type of young man is in short supply and highly desirable. Unless he is truly bad looking and or a wall flower. You need to get a hold of a guy like that young
I like the above comments about Titanic being really just a movie about the alpha widow. That always bothered me in that movie. The lady has her 20 minutes of alpha and than marries and builds a whole life with children and grandchildren with some beta and looks forward to dying and getting back with the alpha. AND WOMEN LOVE LOVE LOVE that trash movie. I thought a better ending would be her in hell for not committing to her marriage and children and still pining for that fornication.
Also in Marcus linked article about maninteruptions the cited example is a racist interrupting a white person. Should be called raceruptions or something if that is the example.
KW says:
Hmm. That doesn’t add up. She’s an actress so she probably has to travel quite frequently. So who is minding the kids when she’s out traveling to movie sets and whatnot? Are they being flown here and there with Katey then?
Still pining for Leo.. stupid skank ass whore.
The highlight of my day is when my husband gets home and he is met by the stampede of feet and chorus of “Daddy’s home!!!” The current two year old is trying to master jumping and awkwardly drives her feet into the ground as one would on a trampoline. This of course lands her on the floor and gives her a ticket into his arms.
The noise in the room is momentarily over the top, a party atmosphere that children naturally gravitate towards.
It is just a bit of daily fun, but an important bit.
This is just one small example of how my children demonstrate that their Dad is their glory (One definition of glory is a “highly praiseworthy asset.”)
The woman has stolen her children’s glory. Pr 17:6
@IBB
“”What makes me sad is only partially how much her children will be destroyed, but mostly that society largely views Kate’s beliefs in this manner as perfectly logical.””
Agreed! I certainly would not want my nieces,or your daughters,looking up to this whackjob for moral direction.
The highlight of my day is when my husband gets home and he is met by the stampede of feet and chorus of “Daddy’s home!!!”
My husband receives this stampede every day too. It warms me heart. Just 2 days ago he recorded it with his phone so he can watch it when he is out of town.
“It warms my heart.”
I’m Irish, but I did not just fall off a box of Lucky Charms.
TheRhoubbhe says:
February 6, 2015 at 8:12 am
This woman [Kate Winslet] cannot substitute the role of a father. No amount of money or resources can ever replace what she has taken away from those children. Hopefully the children won’t end up in rehab or prison but that’s where most of them go. And the travesty will be when the blame is put on the absent fathers.
Monstrous. She is an awful person.
The RiffTrax guys have some fun with that. At the end of the movie, Old Rose is lying in bed, surrounded by a bunch of pictures — of herself! They comment on how she supposedly had this husband later with whom she had kids and grandkids, but she travels with a bunch of pictures of herself alone, as if to say every person who came into her life after Jack rang her bell was irrelevant. (Except the horse; there’s one picture of her with a horse who apparently wouldn’t get out of the shot.)
Hi.
First I want to thank Dalrock for his great blog.
This is ref Robert’s post.
This is my first time posting here and I hate to start by pointing out racism but I couldn’t let this one go.
“prospective husband needs to be Christian, white,…”
I may have ignored it if Scott (respect, btw) didn’t acknowledge Robert’s post. Frankly, my parents are as sinful as…well, any of us (including Robert) are. If they had their way I would not be in the Christian marriage I am blessed with today. It was only by God’s grace that my heart sought His approval over theirs.
Thanks.
Paul says:
February 6, 2015 at 5:19 pm
“This is ref Robert’s post.
This is my first time posting here and I hate to start by pointing out racism but I couldn’t let this one go.
“prospective husband needs to be Christian, white,…””
Are you serious? Of course a white father wants and expects his daughter to marry within her own race. Other races do the same for the most part. This is totally reasonable on his part, and not subject to any kind of valid criticism.
Dalrock, you simply must keep up more diligently. Women universally want what’s best for their children – even when it means divorce.
Case in point:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/02/07/father-refuses-to-give-up-baby-with-down-syndrome/
Welcome to the world of nonpolitical correctness. Where racism, sexism and other ‘isms are of no concern to us. God made the different races and some of us would like to keep our kith and kin as close to us as possible.
Caught a glimpse of “The Real” the other night (like The View but all women of color), and during their 50 Shades of Cray segment they showcased a Chinese woman who cut off her cheating husband’s penis with scissors. But that’s not all. While he was sleeping in the hospital recovery room after reattachment surgery, she snuck in, cut it off again and threw it out the window.
” Of course a white father wants and expects his daughter to marry within her own race. Other races do the same for the most part.”
Not every white father cares about race. Character trumps hue in my book.
An Amy Biehl type dad then?
@Paul
Before you say “racisss” you may want to take a look at Nehemiah 13. When you get done with that, take a look at Ezra 9:1-2. Then you get into both the direct and general meaning of the multiple references to not be unequally yoked. I seldom quote commentary, but for the very conservative I think Rushdoony has stated it so well that it bears repeating:
St. Paul referred to the broader meaning of these laws against hybridization, and against yoking an ox and an ass to a plow (Deut. 22:10), in II Corinthians 6:14. . . . Unequal yoking plainly means mixed marriages between believers and unbelievers and is clearly forbidden. But Deuteronomy 22:10 not only forbids unequal religious yoking by inference, and as a case law, but also unequal yoking generally. This means that an unequal marriage between believers or between unbelievers is wrong. Man was created in the image of God (Gen. 1:26), and woman in the reflected image of God in man, and from man (I Cor. 11:1-12; Gen. 2:18, 21-23). “Helpmeet” means a reflection or mirror, an image of man, indicating that a woman must have something religiously and culturally in common with her husband. The burden of the law is thus against inter-religious, inter-racial, and inter-cultural marriages, in that they normally go against the very community which marriage is designed to establish.
(From” R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law, p. 256f.)
I guess it comes down to culture and the fact the root word of culture is cult: Meaning a common belief. I’ve known many inter-racial marriages in the US and never seen one last and I put that down to a combination of cultural and inherent racial differences that are easily observable in large population groups. It even works out in their order of worship, their view of how a passage of Scripture should be read and what being a Christian means. I have worshiped with many different congregations and groups in multiple countries and even within the frame of all being believers it is my experience that a couple of believers can still be unequally yoked even though they both claim the name of Christ. You can call me a racist all you want, but there is significant textual support for a prohibition on miscegenation in Scripture (although I will admit there is no outright prohibition).
The countervailing point of view is (of what I normally see) is pretty well summed up here:
http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/interracial-dating.html
I think that it’s reasonable to expect different opinions on what Scripture is saying to the individual as they are informed by the Holy Spirit. However, we are commanded to seek wisdom and it seems to me that the abject failure of multiculturalism and the ongoing destruction of western culture should speak loudly on this issue. This is not in any way to start a flame-war or a HBD debate, I’m just looking at the big picture.