Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Relax. It's just casual dating. I much prefer Ana with Tom, who is a very mentally disciplined, health-oriented person in his private life, and has successful directed his own, lengthy, career to a highly unusual degree in the western movie sphere, to an erratic and habitual drunk. They are both intelligent, focused, people. I wish them the best.
And "eww, he looks old", is a really immature take.
How do you reconcile the estranged daughter?
PP you replied to. The daughter story is not what you think it is.
I don't know a single celebrity father who is a good parent in Tom's era. Being a hands-on father wasn't held up as a socially desirable thing in those days. And I don't think ANY super-ambitious men or women who are dedicated to their craft (politics, Silicon Valley, the arts, whatever it is) would actually have the time and patience to be the primary parent at the same time as starring in their own Main Character professional trajectory. Nancy Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the House, who is a trailblazer for women in politics, spent decades as a stay at home mother before landing a political career thanks to family connections, when her kids were older and needed her less. Justice Barrett didn't raise her own 6 kids when climbing the ladder, her aunt did. So this isn't a commentary on men, it goes for women too. You can have it all, with luck, but not at the same time.
Nowadays, this generation of male celebrities who are savvy users of social media just know how to manipulate the public into thinking they're parenting - when actually you see curated photos of togetherness that really don't prove anything, and the work is done by nannies, and perhaps wives who don't have that much career ambitions, or who have sacrificed those ambitions.
So the fact that the divorce contract, probably originating from his wife's side, meant no contact with his kid, probably didn't register as a terrible thing for Tom at the time. Now I'm sure he regrets it, because he has no family. But he'd probably never admit to any regret. He's always liked to project strength.