While promoting her new movie, The Switch, Jennifer Aniston commented that in today’s society, women don’t need men in order to start their own family. Jen told reporters, “Women are realizing more and more that you don’t have to settle, they don’t have to fiddle with a man to have that child…They are realizing if it’s that time in their life and they want this part they can do it with or without that.”
In The Switch, Jen plays a single woman who decides to become a mom through artificial insemination.
Apparently, this did not sit well with Bill O’Reilly, who slammed Aniston’s comments on his show, The O’Reilly Factor. Bill accused the actress of diminishing the role of a dad, and argued that her comments are “destructive to our society” because they send “a message out to 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds that, ‘Hey you don’t need a guy. You don’t need a dad.” Bill added that the role of a dad is “under-emphasized” these days, and that men get “hosed all day long in the parental arena”.
The show’s guest, FOX News Analyst Margaret Hoover, agreed that Aniston was “glamorizing single parenthood”, but also defended her, pointing out that Jen’s comments were simply making a point in the context of her new movie.
What do you think? Is O’Reilly blowing Aniston’s comments out of context or does he make a good point?
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