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Audra McDonald Speaks Out After Autograph-Seeking Fan Followed Her Home—And People Are Horrified
The Gilded Age star said:
"There's a lot of reasons that performers don't do the stage door. There've been shows that I've done it and shows that I've not done it."
"But some of the reasons are: They're exhausted; some people get anxiety about doing stage door; some people are in a rush to catch trains so they can get home; some people avoid the stage door because of health reasons."
Fair.
She then called out a fan who recently followed her out of the theater and all the way to the building where she was staying, and said she eventually had to call security to help her with the fan.
Upon questioning, the fan said they thought they deserved an autograph because "[they'd] come all this way—and they named some town, some city that they'd come all the way from."
Yikes.
McDonald wrapped up her message with advice on how best to interact with actors after the show:
"When you see an actor leave the stage door, if they don't stop, leave them alone."
"There is a reason that they're not stopping, and it has nothing to do with you."
"It's them protecting their space and peace, whatever that may be, and if they do stop or wave or take a picture with you or sign an autograph, great, but please respect the proper boundaries."
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Commenters were quick to say how crazy that behavior was.
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Fans in the comments were quick to call out the fan's behavior for what it really was.
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A show is not the actor's actual life, a fact that seems to escape many fans, unfortunately.
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Finally, commenters found this fan's behavior to be indicative of a larger problem.
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The run of Gypsy that McDonald starred in just closed on August 17.
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MAGA TikToker Gets Brutally Dragged After Tired 'Slippery Slope' Rant About Gay Marriage
It's unknown whether the Court will take up her petition (many experts say it's unlikely), but many conservatives have seized on the news as an opportunity to trot out the same old tired bigotry.
Enter far-right pipsqueak—er, sorry, influencer—Victor Nieves, who went viral for his hot take on why the Court should take up the case, which was so boneheaded even his own followers dragged him for it.
Nieves' take was straight out of 1982: We should overturn same-sex marriage, he says, because it's a slippery slope toward all kinds of absurd marital pairings that have never—and will never—happen, not that they're anyone's business anyway.
According to Nieves:
"[Supporters of same-sex marriage] open Pandora's box. Marriage has to have boundaries. It has to have a definition which was set by God."
Why? Because of things that have never and will never happen, such as:
"There's nothing stopping two brothers from getting married because they're consenting adults. Or how about a mother who's gone through menopause marrying her 18 year old son?
If anyone knows what menopause has to do with this, please let us know.
Nieves went on to warn that allowing same-sex marriage will result in "15 people entering into some weird, freakish corporate marriage," a phrase that doesn't even make any sense.
It's worth noting that same-sex marriage has been legal for 10 years and none of this has happened yet, in part because things like incest are illegal.
But Nieves is hoppin' mad about what HAS happened.
"We've seen the fruits of legalizing gay marriage. We gave it like eight years and all of a sudden we had drag queen story hour in elementary school."
No, we didn't, but okay Victor!
Now obviously, this is flat-out dumb, and even Nieves' own followers thought so.
This is likely because a fun fact conservative "influencers" love to ignore is that repealing same-sex marriage is very unpopular, even with conservatives.
There's no doubt the propaganda has worked: Support for same-sex marriage has fallen substantially in recent years, especially among Republicans.
Nevertheless, the latest polling from March shows that 68% of the country supports same-sex marriage rights, including 44% of Republicans.
Naturally, Nieves doubled-down anyway, scolding his followers for not liking the "unpopular" truth about "gay marriage," and got dragged all over again, most notably by liberal influencers @goodtrouble.
GoodTrouble pointed out that aside from the fact that Nieves' arguments are the same ones used to target interracial marriage decades ago (which is likely no accident), the Trump Administration Nieves voted for is riddled with people who clearly have no regard for "the sanctity of marriage."
Most notable among them is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who impregnated his current and third wife while he was still married to his second.
Then, of course, there's the president himself, a notorious womanizer and adjudicated rapist of women he carried on relations with during three marriages.
Given the outright hypocrisy and incriminatingly bizarre examples Nieves used to make his very dumb point, the backlash has been intense.
Whoever is bankrolling Nieves (and Davis, for that matter) to say this stuff, you might want to consider spending your money elsewhere, because not even conservative weirdos are buying this nonsense.
In the words of the great lesbian pop princess Chappell Roan, good luck babe.
Riley Gaines Blasted After Calling Trump Critics 'Domestic Terrorists' In Unhinged Tweet
An influencer's relevance is fleeting, especially if she's a pretty blond woman in the MAGAsphere where they're a dime a dozen and there's always someone younger waiting in the wings to say or do something bigoted or hateful to curry favor.
Like being a mediocre NCAA athlete, but claiming a trans woman who tied with you for 5th place behind four cisgender women, somehow stole something from you when had they not competed you still would have finished in 5th place.
In a desperate attempt to retain her MAGA audience now that she has sole possession of her 5th place finish and the invitations to the White House or Mar-a-Lago are in short supply, Gaines made a wild, unhinged claim about anyone who criticizes Donald Trump.
On Saturday morning, Gaines posted on X—the preferred platform of hateful bigots:
"If you wish for President Trump to fail, you wish for America to fail. And if you wish for America to fail, you’re a domestic terrorist."
Her ridiculous post certainly got attention, but probably not the kind Gaines wanted.
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Even some blue-checked former MAGA faithful-turned Epstein files demanders showed up to berate Gaines.
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If Gaines expected a flood of attention and approval, she was sorely disappointed.
No one—in 4.7k comments—was cosigning her absurd hot take.
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It appears Riley Gaines 15 minutes is over, with nary a trans woman in sight to blame for her latest failure to place in the winner's circle.
Whatever shall she do?
