Jodie Foster Finally Comes Out!

[Ghoulish Delight]

It is no one else's business. Totally. But if you can do some good by being out, why not be out instead of not saying something that's been completely obvious for 15 years.

Because not everyone is equipped to have that kind of spotlight on them. If you are, and you choose to take advantage of that position and do that kind of good, you're an awesome person. But that doesn't mean it's your responsibility to do it if you're not comfortable doing it.

As has been pointed out, she didn't actively deny anything, she didn't campaign against gay rights, she didn't do anything unbecoming. She simply chose that part of her very public life to be private because she wasn't interested in the public being a part of her love life.

I admire those that can be positive public role models. That does not imply a corollary that I'm disappointed in those that don't.

t is no one else's business. Totally. But if you can do some good by being out, why not be out instead of not saying something that's been completely obvious for 15 years.

How can you reconcile those two sentences? "It's no one's business, but she should tell everyone." It's one or the other. And

I think that is iSm's point that it comes across as shame.

And I think it comes across as someone uninterested in the tabloids turning her private life into a spectacle.