When you work hard. when that work is aw arded, when your body and beauty match societa lstanda rds. when you check every box, and stilleve ryone tells you you're doing it wrong, that's Anne Hathaw ay Syndrome.
The first sym ptoms of Anne Hathaw ay Syndrom e appeared in the run-up to the 2013 oscars, when the com posed. on-point Hathaw ay (nom inated for Best Suppo rting Actress for her perfo rm ance in Les M iserables)became a natura Ifoil to Jenn ifer Law rence's cooI girl tsunam i
“Why Do Women Hate Anne Hathaw ay?”But Love Jennifer Law rence?) posed New York Magazine;“Anne Hathaw ay vs. Jennifer Law rence: Why we hate one and bve the other,”The G bbe and Mail exp bined; “The Happy Girl vs. The cool Girl: Why Peopb Don't Like Anne Hathaw ay,” wrote Indiew ire.
The New York Daily News even interv iew ed people on the street about their hatred of H athaw ay, “She's trying too hard to please everyone.”said one 28-year-old from Queens.
Hathaw ay's im mediate tactic was to adm it that her feelings had been hurt-“It does get to me.” she confessed. “But you have to rem ember in life that there's a posit ive to every negative and a negative to every positive. ”
So Hathaw ay stopped trying, at bast for a bit. She's had only one starring role-as a scient ist in lnterstelar-since her oscar win, and she's ma inta ined a rebtively bw profile.
But in the last six months. The Try has returned: A bngside Kristen Stew art and Brie Larson, she's the least coolpart of Jenny Lew is's“Just o ne of the Guys”music video. She even perform ed Miby (yrus's“Wrecking Ball on”Lip Sync Battb.
Her Instagram is a series of seIf- consc ious se ifies. sincere mouming for cecil the lion. and publicity shots paired with inv itations to jo in her at the A ppb Store, and cringe worthy use of hashtags.
But H athaw ay's rea lIy not do ing anything that different from Taybr Sw ift or Anna Kendrick. But their Try is just slight ly less vis ib le and. as such.infinite iy more to lerable.
Hathaw ay has checked every box on the “how to be a fem a le celebrity”check list. What's frustratinq, and maybe even tragic, is that doing so stillm akes people deeply dis like her.
For most women: Success is not the same as likability. In fact, it's often som ething that leads to the opposite. The things we valUe in men (power, drive, dec is iv eness) become the things we stigm atize.in women.
The Intem, then, is realya tw o- hour meditation on A nne Hathaw ay Syndrome。
Within the confines of The Intem. it's easy to see how unfairly Jules is treated. lt's harder, however, to see our own repulsion from Hathaw ay Within that sam e paradigm: how we react agahst a wom an Who's done her job too well who's failed to adequately hide her effort.
Of course, everyone has the right to feelany Way they please about the popularr im ages that surround us.
But, as alW ays, those feelings say more about us-What we valUe and decry. but a lso our inner compbX ities and hypocris ies-than they do about the cebb rities them selves.
當你努力工作,當你的工作被嘉獎,當你的身材和容貌符合社會審美標準,當你努力做到十全十美,而最后每個人都告訴你,你做得不對。這就是安妮·海瑟薇綜合征。
安妮·海瑟薇綜合征的第一個癥狀出現(xiàn)在2013年奧斯卡頒獎前。安妮·海瑟薇憑借《悲慘世界》獲得最佳女配角提名,可淡定、完美的她只是炫酷大表姐詹妮弗·勞倫斯的陪襯。
《紐約》雜志順勢拋出話題“為什么女性不喜歡安妮·海瑟薇?(卻都愛詹妮弗·勞倫斯)”;加拿大《環(huán)球郵報>赤裸裸地說:“安妮·海瑟薇VS詹妮弗·勞倫斯:我們?yōu)槭裁春抟粋€卻愛另一個?”電影影片網(wǎng)站Ind iew ire說:“快樂女孩vs炫酷女孩:為什么人們不喜歡安妮·海瑟薇?”
《紐約每日新聞》甚至在街邊采訪路人,看他們對海瑟薇的厭惡有多深。皇后區(qū)一名28歲的年輕人說:“她為了討好大家,做得有點過頭了。”
對此,海瑟薇第一個策略是承認自己真的很受傷。她說:“這傷到我了。不過你必須牢記,生活中再積極的事兒也有消極的一面,再消極的事兒有積極的一面。”
之后,海瑟薇就不那么拼了。抱回小金人后,她只主演了《星際越》中的一位科學家,還一直很低調。
不過最近半年她拼命三娘的勁頭又回來了:她和克里斯汀·斯圖爾特布麗·拉爾森一起錄制了珍妮·劉易斯的單曲《其中一個家伙》的MV,她是幾人中最不酷的。她還在真人秀《明星假唱大賽》中模仿了麥莉·賽勒斯的《毀滅球》。
她在hstagram上發(fā)圖也很謹慎,為獅子塞西亞默哀,受邀參加蘋果商店活動的公開拍攝,對于熱門標簽的使用也很小心。
她的行為和泰勒·斯威夫特、安娜·肯德里克沒什么不同。只是后者的努力更隱蔽或者更容易被大眾接受。
海瑟薇查閱了所有關于“如何成為女明星”的技巧清單。然并卵,悲催的是人們還是很不喜歡她。
對女性來說,成功和可愛是兩碼事。事實上,兩者相去甚遠。我們欣賞的男性特質(比如能力、上進心和果敢)成了我們最不愿意看到的女性特征。
電影<實習生》真的就是對安妮·海瑟薇綜合征的兩小時反思。
在電影中,我們很容易看到女主朱爾斯受到的不公正待遇。而我們卻很難發(fā)現(xiàn)我們對海瑟薇的反感和電影是相似的:我們?nèi)绾螌Υ粋€工作出色卻沒能很好地藏住鋒芒的女性。
當然,每個人都有權利喜歡或者不喜歡我們周圍的公眾人物。
不過這些感覺往往透露了我們自己(的內(nèi)心):我們重視什么和鄙視什么,我們復雜的內(nèi)心和深處的偽善。相比之下,這對明星的影響小得多。