For example, the singer Adele. Ever since she lost a lot of weight, everyone is waiting impatiently for her to gain weight again. When at Grammy Awards a few days ago she stepped onto the podium to take over hers, for a while it looked promising. Adele rose. And very powerfully. To the regret of writers and photographers, however, only hands towards the cameras. For them, Holt will never be a woman with a phenomenal voice and incredible talent, but the one who “made it big in show business, even though she is fat.” Some media will have her in this box forever, even though she sings in such a way that for me she could easily have four more chins and two behinds. After all, no one blamed Pavarotti either. And that he had them!
We don’t have a star of Adele’s size here, but the game of boxes and stereotypes, from which it is difficult to break out, is also played here. Actress Markéta Hrubešová appeared naked on screen twice at the beginning of her career. She was sixteen or seventeen years old then, today she looks at the world through the eyes of a fifty-year-old, so calculate how long ago it was. And anyway, someone keeps reminding her of those movies. Markéta will remain an unchaste redhead, even if her last hair turns gray, just as Adele will always be “the fat one”, even if she is a ready-to-wear size 38.
Fortunately, I am not interesting, the awareness of my existence is limited by the streets I live in and, with a little immodesty, maybe even the columns I write. But it’s still not enough to make it worthwhile for someone to publicly measure my curves (he’d be surprised!) or the depth of my cleavage, or pull out articles from the prehistoric days of my journalistic beginnings, which I was unreasonably proud of at the time. I had the feeling that humanity was waiting for my texts as eagerly as the Israelites were waiting for Moses. Today, I laugh heartily at those attempts at journalism and pride, and I’m very glad that no one reminds me of them. And the candies stolen in solitary confinement and the forged signature on the math A are long overdue. Vida, even the law can be lenient, and theft or fraud will one day become statute-barred. So why can’t some people do it when it comes to a few extra pounds or nudity, both very tastefully done?
(PS I showed off my box. And what would yours look like?)
