Matt Lauer Is a Fucking Dirtbag

[Content Note: Misogyny; sexual assault; exploitation; weight loss talk.]

So, the other night, Anne Hathaway, who is currently promoting Les Miserables, was getting out of a vehicle when she had what in common parlance is known as a wardrobe malfunction, which revealed part of her crotch.

And because we live in a garbage world full of garbage monsters, a bunch of photographers took pictures of her in this vulnerable moment and then sold those pictures to people who published them on the internet, where other people posted them everywhere, and still more people commented on them, slut-shaming and victim-blaming Hathaway because in our garbage world full of garbage monsters this was not an occasion to observe that nonconsensually taking and distributing a picture of someone's inadvertently exposed crotch is a gross sexual assault, but instead to observe that the victim of this gross sexual assault is a dirty whore who needs to wear panties.

Anyway.

Today, Hathaway went on the Today show to promote Les Mis, and Matt Lauer, who is a fucking dirtbag, not only treated this like it's FUCKING NEWS, but MADE A JOKE ABOUT IT, talked to GROWN-ASS WOMAN ANNE HATHAWAY like a condescending patriarch, and acted like she owed a goddamn apology for it. The relevant bit begins at 0:52:

Matt Lauer: Anne Hathaway, good morning. Nice to see you. Anne Hathaway: Morning, Matt. Lauer: Seen a lot of you lately. [HAR HAR. HE LITERALLY JUST FUCKING SAID TO HIS GUEST: "I SAW YOUR VAJAYJAY TITTER!"] Hathaway: [laughs uncomfortably] Sorry about that. [laughs again] I'd be happy to stay home, but, uh, the film. [laughs; casts her eyes down] Lauer: Let's just get it out of the way. You had a little wardrobe malfunction [grins; Hathaway "mm"s in acknowledgement] the other night. What's the lesson learned from something like that? Other than that you keep smiling, which you always do? [FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!] Hathaway: [deep breath; looking down] Well, it was obviously an unfortunate incident. Um, I think— It kinda made me sad on two accounts. One was that I was very sad that we live in an age when someone takes a picture of another person in a vulnerable moment and, rather than delete it, and do the decent thing, sells it. And I'm sorry that we live in a culture that commodifies sexuality of unwilling participants, which brings us back to Les Mis, because that’s what my character is—she is someone who is forced to sell sex to benefit her child, because she has nothing and there's no social safety net. And I— Yeah, so, um, so let's get back to Les Mis. [laughs uncomfortably; looks down] Lauer: [acting all impressed and amused because HE IS A FUCKING DIRTBAG] That is one of the most creative turns of a question I've ever heard. And I'm gonna take it at that. That's fine.

"You really outsmarted me this time with your DECENCY, Anne Hathaway! But I'll get you NEXT TIME!" Matt Lauer has all the integrity of a cartoon villain. Congratulations, Today show. That's quite an anchor you've got there.

Later, Lauer OF COURSE presses Hathaway about her weight loss for the role, despite the fact she has repeatedly tried to avoid talking about it. Hathaway retorted: "I didn't do it to get hot, I did it to look like I was dying."

Go to hell, Matt Lauer. You asshole.