Oprah and the Golden Globes Sham

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The Golden Globes were last night.

Just in case your phone died, your power was out, or you’ve had no contact with the outside world in the last 24 hours.

And, unpopular opinion alert: watching the whole thing, I kind of felt a little bit, oh, sick to my stomach.

Seeing the uber wealthy celebs don all black, and take public cheap shots, and all but genuflect at Oprah’s altar, the whole evening just left a bad taste in my mouth, if I’m being honest.

It honestly just seemed like a bunch of petulant children, complaining, a la Verruca Salt, that their porridge was too hot or too cold.

I mean, many of these women, who are all publicly “championing” the end to sexual assault and harassment, have literally made their careers off of allowing themselves to be sexually objectified. It’s the reason they’re in those chairs. You want to tell me that your skintight black dress, that has slits UpToHere, or is sheer with strategically placed lace, is protesting sexual assault? Honey, take a look in the mirror. How about you cover your goods, and have a little self-respect and then let’s have the conversation. I’m not saying to wear a turtleneck and orthopedic shoes, but just don’t come at me with your crotch hanging out of your dress and tell me that you’re championing respect for women.

It just seemed a little hypocritical if you ask me. It doesn’t add up.

And not that by wearing provocative clothing is in any way, shape, or form “asking for it,” but there is a certain way to present yourself in public, versus how you present yourself in the bedroom. And that line has all but ceased to exist. I don’t know, maybe that was just how I was raised, but it is an act of love and respect to help our brothers in Christ not fall into the trap of sin, and maybe one way of doing that is, I don’t know…not dressing like you work at a brothel. Just a thought.

And I know, I know. Bring on the criticism. I think deep down, we all know it’s at least part true.

But what got to me more than snide remarks from the presenters, the militant feminism on display, or the choir of men, all visibly uncomfortable at the tone of the evening, was Oprah’s sermon on the mount.

Now, first. The fact that in the 75 year history of the Golden Globes, that there has never been a black woman to win that award, is a fact that we should all be ashamed of. And Oprah is absolutely, 100% deserving of that award.

Next. Oprah is a child of God. She has done tremendous good in the world. She has overcome a lot of challenges in her past and has successfully built a career that is transcendent, influential, and impressive.

However, Oprah is not God.

And should not be worshiped as one.

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Listening to her speech, which, yes – it was powerful, articulate, passionate and incredibly moving – about some very difficult and real topics that need addressing and changing and tackling – listening to it, I felt as though I was being taken to church. Hints of southern baptist preaching came to mind, and I was half expecting to hear a “Can I get an amen?” at some point.

But the degree to Oprah’s revere is truly diety-status. And it makes me sick.

Oprah champions beautiful messages: Believing in yourself. Doing good for others. Overcoming adversity. However, her new age spirituality belongs in the dumpster. Because it is not Christianity, and it should not be touted as such.

To the point that, Christians should fear the mass-sheparding of the flocks of millions to her pasture of false truths and vanilla spirituality.

It’s scary.

But back to her Golden Globes 2018 speech. The “new day” on the horizon for young women and girls.

Granted, I fully realize that I have been blessed with a solid and safe upbringing that, sadly, not everyone is fortunate enough to have. Sure, I had my health challenges, and had one episode of sexual assault, but my life has been incredibly secure. My parents are loving, Christian people who have been married over 40 years. There has been no domestic abuse, no poverty, homelessness, unemployment, racism, or prejudice that I’ve had to personally experience, and for that I am incredibly grateful. And I know that that is not the case for everyone. And that is heartbreaking. And if that’s reason enough to be wearing a black dress, then I guess sign me up.

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But.

This “new day” on the horizon.

Am I missing something?

This life that they’re complaining of….we have it so good. We live such a privileged existence here in the United States. We have health care. We can vote. Drive cars. Marry whomever we choose. Have access to clean food and water. We can go to college. Hold any job we choose — up to and including the President of the United States.

What about in third world countries, where women are still suppressed by men? What about in the middle east, where women are still “kept” by men, and prohibited from driving, or showing anything other than their eyes in public?

Truly, what room do we have to talk?

The sexual abuse that has been coming out recently here, is deplorable. And I am so glad that those predators and creeps are finally being called out and given the consequences they so deserve.

As an actor myself, I too, have been on the receiving end of unwanted advances made by “decision makers,” and have faced the career altering-consequences when I turned down those men.

But I have also, to the detriment of my career, turned down the numerous opportunities I’ve received to play great roles that also happen to involve nudity, sex, or other situations/dialogue that goes against my morals and beliefs.  Why? Because I am actually championing women and the messages that art sends out into the world to young women and men about respect. Respect for others. Respect for oneself. Respect for marriage. Respect for life.

And I think that maybe, in addition to the black dresses and the stirring stump speeches, if Hollywood really wants to make a difference in the climate of respecting one another, they need only to look as far as the content they are creating.

Because truly, and sadly, they are the gatekeepers for the tone in our society. They are the trendsetters in every sense of the word. And much of the filth that comes out of Hollywood and onto our big and little screens across the country consists of nothing more than glorified, soft-porn that mocks God, glorifies unnatural beauty standards, and celebrates infidelity and promiscuity.

So don’t throw on a black outfit and tell me you’re championing women and fighting for respect.

Not with that track record.

It’ll take more than an Oprah sermon to get me to believe any of that.

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558 thoughts on “Oprah and the Golden Globes Sham”

  2. What a great post! I wish I could give about a thousand ‘likes’ to this! Amen and amen sister! THAT was a sermon all women need to hear, and it sure wouldn’t hurt the men to hear it too! Bless you and keep on going BBB!

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  3. Awesome, awesome, awesome! It’s amazing to me that Hollywood thinks so many of us out here evidently do not see through all there hypocrisy. But I do feel sorry for the ones, who evidently mostly live near the oceans, (something in the water?), who actually are taken in by all this phoniness. Just how does a person benefit from all the “blessings” of Hollywood and then act as if your some kind of champion for the little people? And they think the “fly over” states don’t see through that? I greatly respect the fact you have set a standard in your acting career, even though I’m sure it has personally cost you, because of the way this Hollywood beast is. You’re the one that should have the bigger platform and be making the speech. I thank God for the platform you do have. Keep up the good work.

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    1. Hi friend! Oh thank you so much for your support. I really appreciate you taking the time to read and share your thoughts! Hugs and love xox

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  4. Amen!

    I don’t make comments, but the time has come for me to let my heart be heard; “so this will be my first Comment!”

    We know that the world has lost its way, and within the darkness it seems as if some of God’s people are looking to the world for guidance. We just need to remember to stay vertical, and let the love of God take us even higher. And when the love consumes our hearts, and overwhelms our soul. The light of God will surely shine brighter than ever; “even within these dark times!”

    God Bless!

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    1. Hi Warren, thank you so much for this thoughtful response! You’re so right – stay vertical!! i love that so much 🙂 i’m glad you stopped by and left a comment!! big hugs to you xox

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  5. I started watching the GGA and then I had to leave it because it was making me sick at the hypocrisy. Funny how women hadn’t come out before this, they waited for their careers to kickstart. Hasn’t Oprah had Harvey Weinstein on her show, where they were admirably kissing each other on the cheek? That to me translates into acceptance. Were or were not contracts that women signed for, coded with something like “NO LIMITS.” So then women signed fully knowing the exploitation that was to happen. Sad that it has taken so long to surface, if people had spoken up a lot earlier many could have been saved from all this. The old adage about evil triumphs when good men and women do nothing is so, so true !!!!!!!! Live for the glory of God, I say not for the glory of Hollywood, because one will lead to heaven while the latter will lead to death and a painful eternity.

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  6. That was quite the rant.. and I must say that I agree with all of it.

    I no longer watch these award shows because I found myself watching for the wrong reasons (low cut, UpToThere), and many of the speeches seemed vapid and uninspiring. I remember one year that I ended up depressed that I didn’t have as much money as Warren Beaty or have as much net worth as Tyler Perry.

    Sure, I love Oprah (from a distance), and who doesn’t. But I don’t think that she is the sole person responsible for curing the world’s problems. I get my inspiration from books, and my saving grace from One Book (can I get an “amen”?).

    Thanks for posting this thoughtful article. I am with you.

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  7. I just “liked” your blog post on Oprah and the Golden Globes. I agree with you that the very FIRST thing the Hollywood do-good-ers should do is to stop putting out “soft porn” in movies and TV. Unfortunately, the sex-laden productions that we see constantly also contribute to the “rape culture” for which all me MeToo-ers” are fighting against. It doesn’t make sense, but I’m sure they’d all say, “That’s what sells.” We are making a deal with the Devil when we speak out of both sides of our mouths that way. Satan loves a hypocrite. Thanks for posting what many of us are thinking! You Go, Girl! Meg Blaine Corrigan, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Sexual Assault Survivor, Brilliant Resilience Blogger

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    1. hey Meg! thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this 🙂 you’re so right – it is a big contributing factor. Hugs and love xox

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  8. Am I allowed to say Amen, Amen and Amen!! I agree on all of it and well done for speaking out! I’ve read many (though not all) of the comments and am saddened by some of them;

    • Not showing our “bits” is not cowering because of bad men! It’s keeping them from the world and saving them for the only people who should ever see them, that we should WANT to see them. Whom we WANT to be be turned on by them!

    • It doesn’t suck to be an African! I am one, and I live in Africa and many of our countries are the most beautiful places on earth and some of our people are rich and healthy and we are beautiful and generous and kind!

    I won’t go into more, just saying thanks for a great article and I agree with it all hands down! 🙂 🙂

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  9. Hi, It was an interesting event, and great blog. The energy between male and female is being sorted out from a spiritual point of view, to get it into a proper balance. The energy is flowing in and karma is massively being stimulated and events and outpourings like this will keep on happening, until things change and there is a shift in power and at some time a lot more harmony. Things can actually happen quite quickly. But this is just mostly in the USA, population of 323 million. There’s about 7.6 billion people in the world so there is a lot more that needs to happen for things to work out in some arenas that are rougher than the USA. Here’s to freedom, happiness and equality.

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  10. This was AWESOME! So glad someone could put my thoughts into words. I have been so turned off by the whole thing but couldn’t figure out how to say it. SO.GOOD. Way to go for speaking truth boldly!

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  11. Amen. Every.single.word. Thanks for being vocal with God’s words that he has given you…time for some changes in our society for sure!

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  12. You brought up a good point in this post. These women in Hollywood portray characters involved in fornication, adultery, promiscuity etc. and continue to dress unmodest however are protesting when they are abused. It is wrong and there is no excuse for being sexually harassed but many of these women clearly decided to sell themselves for fame. Their lives on and off camera are sending mixed signals leading viewers consciously/subconsciousness astray. Thanks again for covering this timely topic!

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  15. Excellent post. I agree and said many of the same things to my husband about Hollywood. I have not admired Oprah for a very long time. When I found out she was into Scientology and is not a Christian, but as you said more of a new age spirituality, I decided she didn’t have anything I wanted to listen to. Scientology is a dangerous cult. God help us if she does get elected POTUS.

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  17. Thanks for your visit to my Whale’s dream blog – Trying to find ways to get people to open up to God / Love is my calling.

    wrt Oprah and the Golden Globes … As the father of 3 daughters who are all quite capable and active in their own right, I find the “me too” in its versions to be both healthy and sometimes confused. These are very needed conversations and actions, but we also need to be in conversations. Two way interchanges where folks get to know one another, rather than just shout at each other. Selling with love, compassion, friend connections is all well and good, but we need to help each other see and hear what our ads are saying to one another and they often go beyond selling to entice and draw us in in more subconscious ways that go too far. So, how to love one another in the midst? … Ah my daily challenge.

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    1. Thank you so much Clark, for sharing your thoughts on this. Sounds like you’re a great dad. Hugs and love xox

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  18. Preach it sister! Women wanted “equal rights,” wanted to be “like men,” which included “free sex,” trashy talk, and the like. All that did was enable men to become like animals. And going around in clothing that leaves us half-naked is like throwing gasoline on a passionate fire. With the sex scandal, the recent suicides of young porn stores, and other similar news, the writing is now ON THE WALL, big and bold and mincing no words, and still, the rich and powerful “ultra-feminists” fight it, and cling desperately to what they think they’ve won. When will we wake up, people?! When will we stop being so damned (in the real sense of the word!) stubborn?! Women DO have great power. We have the power to change the world, if we would just go back to being feminine and pure and nurtuting, as God created us. We can still have our corporate jobs, our positions of power, but it would be a positive, healing power! God have mercy on is all. 😢 🙏🏻

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  19. Love your comment “I’ve received to play great roles that also happen to involve nudity, sex, or other situations/dialogue that goes against my morals and beliefs. Why? Because I am actually championing women and the messages that art sends out into the world to young women and men about respect. Respect for others. Respect for oneself. Respect for marriage. Respect for life.” You hit the proverbial nail on the head. It is not about choice it is about morals and whether folks agree or not it is our inward sinful nature that lets folks dress inappropriately provocatively (men and women) and then preach about abuse or cry wolf.

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  20. Wow, so many commenting that i could not read them all. Well done for inspiring dalogue and deeper thought.. I liked your post although i wondered it could have been divided into three or four representing different ideas. I also like that you will stand up and share your reaction to encourage others who otherwise would have been silent.
    Some ladies will say how they dress is up to them regardless of others, men or women. To that i agree it is up to them but if they dress to draw attention to themselves and send a message, they need be careful in this world that they dont send a message they dont want to send about themselves or women in general.
    I talk to my son about what impressions he sends through his appearance and its the same for either gender.

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    1. thank you so much for this wonderful comment. yeah – lots of different directions. I think i have my fever to thank for that haha Lots of powerful food for thought here. big hugs xo

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  23. By the way, well done for raising the issue. Too often society just follows the party line, blindly accepting the image that the media has a vested interest in promoting – that of celebrity cult worship. It happens however not only in Hollywood but also in the much more influential field of politics. Nelson Mandela was a case in point. He had so much to offer the world in that he refused to be bitter for the years he spent in prison under apartheid. However the media made him out to be a godlike figure and celebrities around the world, actors, sportspeople and politicians gathered to have their pictures taken beside him in what can only be described as cult worship. The result was that his message was suffocated by hero worship and he himself got caught up with the tsunami of flattery that was heaped upon him. From that point on, nothing he did could be wrong. That in turn meant that real change in South Africa never happened, it was just a changing of emperors clothes and the present rulers of that nation have raped their own countrymen and women dry. What could have been a real transformative moment in that nation where the power of forgiveness and hope could prepare the ground for stability and prosperity, was instead exchanged for a short term injection of euphoria and the worship of men. Always a recipe in the long term for disaster! Anyways just some thoughts from an English pastor. May God allow America to learn from South Africa’s mistake, and may America truly be made Great Again. Keep up these good courageous blogs.

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  25. Hey, beautybeyondbones, liking your blog very much, and thanks for liking mine. Thoughtful post and on point. However, to counter a bit, just because women are still oppressed overtly by men in third-world countries, doesn’t mean there’s not subtle oppression happening here, in the US. In fact there is (as you know, as your experiences indicate). And I’m afraid that’s what has made it so difficult for our nation to stop and listen all these years. It’s been too easy to tell ourselves it’s not really happening–and “it” can mean any number of things (racism and prejudice against LGBTQ folks or transitioning people), not just misogyny. For too long, straight white males (of which I am one) have known too much privilege, which has allowed us to bully others even when we don’t realize we’re doing it. We can’t treat women as objects any longer (even if women succumb to cultural pressures to wear skimpy clothes). We can’t treat people of color as “the help.” And we can’t treat people unlike us as freaks. These injustices must stop. This was Oprah’s point beyond her main point (her “metapoint”?). And bringing justice where there isn’t any is true love in action, what Christ calls us to do. In this sense her message was not new-agey but Christian. She deserves the accolades for her courage to speak up, recognizing that God had given her such a time as this and faithfully taking advantage of it. By the way, as a preacher there is also a tremendous amount I can learn from her public speaking abilities. She had an entire room mesmerized in mere seconds. Amazing! Anyway, keep writing and sharing you perspectives! Peace.

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  26. You score major points in my book for a most honest and articulate look at this sham as you call it. Your willingness to swim against the current is an inspiration! Glad our paths have crossed. Keep up the great work.

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  27. I never watched it but have heard about it and seen small video clips. I believe everyone will always have an opinion and that is ok. It is freedom of speech which we are lucky to be able to express. There are valid points to a lot of these arguments but ultimately, it is your own point of view. Not everyone will agree/ disagree and that is fine. This is an important issue that needs to be voiced but that doesn’t invalidate other important issues. Thanks for sharing your thoughts here and also for some of the comments – they all provide food for thought. Peace and blessings! : )

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    1. Thanks Tigre. Yeah I definitely respect everyone’s opinions – we are all allowed to have our own – and are blessed with the freedom to express them! So glad you stopped by! Hugs and love xox

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  28. Hi there!! You and I are of like mind–I only wish I’d been following you last January so I could’ve read this then! Anyway, in my spiritual belief system, Oprah is an advanced soul who’s lost her way in this life, because she’s so stuck on herself (and expecting to be worshipped) that it has muddied her soul’s evolution. Her ego is ginormous and is floating out in the stratosphere somewhere.

    Also, I truly admire your career decisions with regards to respecting women!! Rock it!

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    1. Thanks so much Meg! So glad this resonated with you!! Thanks for your support. Hugs and love xox

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  30. I loved this post, I don’t share your beliefs, but I do believe it’s deeds not words that change the world! You capture the hypocrisy of the whole thing perfectly! If you sell sex you are going to get scr***d. I’m also impressed with how delicate you handle the fact that abuse is wrong full stop.

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