We just took The Kid to see Madagascar 2 on the base theatre (hey, it’s free). Aside from some critical thinking about the movie as a whole, which I am too tired for at the moment, and my wondering what other people think of the “Ha ha! Hippos are fat! Get it! She’s fat!” thing that feels a little in my face, I want to know…
Jada Pinkett Smith, as far as I know, goes by that full name. She is always billed as such, and I always see her name in magazines linked to her just that way. Whenever I am talking about movies or celebrities w/ someone and she comes up (which is a lot, since I kind of named The Kid after her), or if I see someone refer to her casually on a blog, people always seem to refer to her as “Will Smith’s wife” or “Jada Smith”. I mean, I just wrote about this sort of thing the other day, but why the fuck can’t people seem to use the name that she obviously prefers? She is a talented actress and intriguing person (and apparently a rocker!) apart from the fame of her husband. She has done a lot on her own right, and successfully so. A Google search for her comes up w/ “Pinkett Smith”. Why do people have so much trouble using the name that she chooses to use for herself?
is because she’s a woman a good enough answer???
Or do you want me to try and word that in longer and more academic sounding words?
HA! I didn’t want to say it…
Especially annoying because Pinkett is so much more memorable a name than Smith.
(I dated a guy with the last name Smith who insisted that women who don’t take their husband’s names don’t really love them. I was like, Good luck getting a woman to give up an actually interesting name for Smith. (No offense to any Smiths reading this…))