[RANT] In Defense Of My GF Michelle Rodriguez

Y’all need to go easy on my girl Michelle Rodriguez. The whole “look at the crazy lesbo being a crazy lesbo in a muscle tee” smear campaign is pretty tired. I’m not saying she hasn’t been known to get buck wild on occasion. I’m not saying she doesn’t have lesbo tendencies. She’s obviously done denying that, as is evidenced by her recent admission of bisexuality. I’m just saying that she’s served out her term as reigning queen of hot, hot mess-dom, and perhaps the media should lay off the insult-slinging a bit and let the woman love and live.

Case in point: Michelle Rodriguez and Cara Delevingne attend a New York Knicks game together. The two, as in both of them, get visibly drunk, engage in some very mutual PDA, and smoke e-cigarettes courtside. I’m not sure what the proper etiquette for smoking e-cigs at a professional sporting event is — if it’s accepted or considered taboo. Either way, it’s not crime, and they should both be held equally responsible for whatever playful, albeit a little sloppy, behavior they exhibited. It’s unfair that Michelle Rodriguez should carry the burden; that simply because of her proceeding party girl reputation she’s being held solely responsible in the media’s eyes and headlines.

According to E! “Michelle Rodriguez Gives Cara Delevingne a Sloppy Kiss at NBA Game.” According to TMZ, “Michelle was all over Cara — and looked totally out of it.” According to D-Listed, “Michelle Rodriguez was slobbering over that vaporizer like it’s a hard black dick” while, contrarily, Cara Delevingne is daintily being described as “getting stoned courtside.” If you ask my opinion, two hot babes both got a little bit drunk and handsy at a basketball game, and you should all get over the image of two chicks unapologetically flirting, showing affection, and having fun in front of thousands of boring white Americans. It happens all the time between men and women.

Although these sensationalist tabloid magazines aren’t trusted or legitimate news sources, they do have the power to influence cultural attitudes toward sexuality and gender. They have the megaphone and audience to dictate what versions of “homosexuality” we deem appropriate or acceptable. I could be reading too far into this (a vestige of college), but I speculate that because Cara is the kind of pretty, femme girl-kisser that the white, hetero public approves of/fantasizes about — blonde, petite, sweet and angelic — she’s seen as passively on the receiving end of Michelle’s “predatory” behaviors.

Chill out people, girls just want to have fun.