The Oscar Curse, and, yes, that dress is a rug

This is a post on an event I have refused to even contemplate to watch. Simply, because I can not stand rich people who who use their insular World of Fake to lecture other people on morals on which they then renege.

Glad to hear that 'Sex to boost film career is 'not rape': Weinstein lawyer'. Fully go along with that, which brings me to the Curse.

Could be that some actress will regret having won that golden dildo without a penis, because of this study.

THE OSCAR CURSE: STATUS DYNAMICS AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MARITAL SURVIVAL

H. Colleen Stuart, Sue H. Moon and Tiziana Casciaro from different universities

We analyzed the marital histories of all Best Actor and Best Actress Academy Award nominees from 1936 to 2010 to determine the effect of a sudden status shift on marriage survival. We find that Oscar wins are associated with a greater risk of divorce for Best Actresses, but not for Best Actors. This asymmetry is consistent with gender dynamics documented in marriages among the general population.

In recent years, anecdotal evidence suggesting that winning an Academy Award—or Oscar—for Best Actress puts a woman’s marriage at risk for divorce has prompted the popular press to speculate about the existence of an “Oscar curse” (Serjeant, 2010), which allegedly denies talented actresses the simultaneous enjoyment of professional success and marital happiness. Why might these much-admired women have greater difficulty in sustaining their marriages than their male counterparts? Is there theoretical merit to, and empirical evidence for, the Oscar Curse?

Conclusion

We find that Oscar wins are associated with a greater risk of divorce for Best Actresses, but not for Best Actors. The asymmetric effect of winning an Oscar for the survival of Best Actresses’ versus Best Actors’ marriages indicates that, when it comes to the effect of gender roles, the marriages of ordinary and extraordinary women display similar patterns. Several mechanisms might account for the effect we document. On the one hand, the increased risk of divorce women experience may be ascribed to a husband’s discomfort with his wife’s fame and success. On the other hand, after a status increase, the wife may grow dissatisfied with her current marital arrangement either because she has outgrown the relationship or because she now has the confidence and opportunity to move away from a bad marriage. The specific trigger for divorce, therefore, may reside in the wife and/or the husband. Our data do not allow us to adjudicate among these alternate mechanisms or indicate which might be more frequent. Future research can tackle these questions.

Well, life can be a bitch. Oh, and Frances McDormand’s dress is really a rug.