The Left’s Ugly Response to a Beautiful Woman’s Death
Funerals, like awards shows and sporting events, become excuses for the left to force their opinions on a captive audience.
This tasteless trend finds expression with the death of Brigitte Bardot, sex symbol extraordinaire, at 91.
Rather than condemn laws that penalize mere speech, leftists damn Bardot for speaking her mind.
“Rest in peace Ms. Bardot,” pop songstress Chappell Roan shared on Instagram. “She was my inspiration for red wine supernova.”
Then the internet mob showed up with their digital pitchforks and torches.
“Holy $#!+ I did not know all that insane $#!+ Ms. Bardot stood for,” Roan explained in an attempted redo. “Obvs I do not condone this. Very disappointing to learn.”
Bardot, like Sophia Loren and Ursula Andress, stood for beauty in those beautiful years that followed the Second World War but came before bell-bottoms, sideburns, and polyester uglied everything up. The perverse left does not see visions of her dancing barefoot in And God Created Woman when Bardot comes up, but instead reads her criticism of Muslim immigration to France as racism and support for Marine Le Pen as anathema to decency.
“Many actresses flirt with producers to get a role,” Bardot reflected during #MeToo. “Then when they tell the story afterwards, they say they have been harassed.”
Would she know any of this from her years in show business or should we dismiss her observation because it rubs raw the preconceptions of a faddish movement?
Funerals may be for the living, but for the left every death is about them. How do her loved ones feel? Who cares? The people who hated her really need comfort and attention.
NPR’s All Things Considered explored Bardot’s “complicated legacy” (strangely, left-wingers in the film industry never bequeath a “complicated legacy”). A Vogue headline hubristically reads: “Mourning Brigitte Bardot Doesn’t Mean Absolving Her.” A Le Monde article claimed in its first line that Bardot, who embodied physical beauty, “embodied racial hatred.”
Was Brigitte Bardot really a human Rorschach test?
Bardot may have spent the last half-century of her life dedicated to animal rights, ridiculed Sarah Palin as a “disgrace to women” for promoting oil exploration, and personified the sexual revolution through her adultery, divorces, troubled relationship with motherhood, and sex-kitten vibe more than anyone who lived during it. All of this means nothing to political totalitarians who demand an embrace of everything they deem righteous.
A CNN article eulogizes Bardot as “an early prototype for the Trump-era pin-up.” Cannot her epitaph read that she was hot (chaude, even) and just omit the politics, which seem convoluted rather than consistent, anyhow?
“Her politics leaned heavily towards the right,” Fiona Sinclair Scott and Leah Dolan falsely insist in the CNN article titled, “French Girl Chic or right-wing pin-up? The complicated style legacy of Brigitte Bardot.”
“In 1992, she married Bernard d’Ormale, a former advisor to Jean-Marie Le Pen — founder of France’s far-right National Front party,” they write. “She was convicted five times for inciting racial hatred, oftentimes directed at the Muslim community, and was publicly dismissive of the #MeToo movement and feminism, preferring to focus her philanthropic efforts on the rights of animals over women.”
The authors write of hyper-feminine, possibly right-wing-coded beauty ideals blah, blah, blah, trad wife, blah, blah, blah, Sydney Sweeney, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Rather than condemn laws that penalize mere speech, leftists damn Bardot for speaking her mind. They cite her flouting of draconian French edicts against expression as not a badge of honor but a mark of shame. And it is — theirs, not hers.
Who looks at this woman and has politics on the brain?
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