# Do People Hate Anne Hathaway? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376 "2013-02-25T21:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/141 "2013-03-02T20:35:06Z")
I like her. She’s working at her craft and juggling her career. The whalloping hatred, I do not get. Will those same haters howl in delight when something awful happens to her? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/142 "2013-03-02T21:35:44Z")
I would have bet money you were kidding, **Mernieth**. You’re not? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/143 "2013-03-03T04:16:19Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > …Each person has a right to use the name their parents gave them, regardless of your or anyone else’s opinion of that name… “…but why do you ask, Two Dogs Fucking?” ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/144 "2013-03-03T13:22:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > “…but why do you ask, Two Dogs Fucking?” Sorry, I can’t tell if you’re joking or making a point, so in case it’s the latter, I’ll double down and insist that Two Dogs Fucking, if there were such a person, would have a right to use that name. Considerations against using it are pragmatic, not moral. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/145 "2013-03-03T13:49:08Z")
She’ll be much more popular next year. I understand that the rest of her real life is being written by Aaron Sorkin. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/146 "2013-03-03T13:56:31Z")
I once dated a guy who was drop dead gorgeous. He was, by far, the best looking person I’ve ever had the pleasure of kissing. Trouble is, once we stopped kissing and started talking, I realized that he was missing a personality. He was vanilla ice cream with no hot fudge to make him truly delectable. Hathaway is like that. She’s really pretty, and earnest, and seems genuinely nice. But she doesn’t have a great personality to match. She lacks a sparkle in her eye, a crafty intelligence, or a great, raunchy wit, to balance out her personality. She’s the girl that you keep trying to remember when you’re telling people who was at the party last night. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/147 "2013-03-03T14:15:38Z")
I hope she hasn’t been Googling her name this past week. She’ll be suicidal! ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/148 "2013-03-03T15:38:01Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > She’s really pretty, and earnest, and seems genuinely nice. But she doesn’t have a great personality to match. She lacks a sparkle in her eye, a crafty intelligence, or a great, raunchy wit, to balance out her personality. > > She’s the girl that you keep trying to remember when you’re telling people who was at the party last night. And if that’s not reason enough to hate her stinkin’ guts, I don’t know what is! ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/149 "2013-03-03T20:23:50Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > And if that’s not reason enough to hate her stinkin’ guts, I don’t know what is! I don’t actively hate her. I just don’t think she’s very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/150 "2013-03-03T20:45:35Z")
I had no idea that Shakespeare’s wife was named “Anne Hathaway”. Her name wasn’t mentioned in _Shakespeare in Love_. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/151 "2013-03-03T23:39:42Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Hathaway is like that. She’s really pretty, and earnest, and seems genuinely nice. But she doesn’t have a great personality to match. She lacks a sparkle in her eye, a crafty intelligence, or a great, raunchy wit, to balance out her personality. What, not even her [paparazzi rap?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKvQvWTZFWg) I certainly have never had any trouble remembering Anne Hathaway. She certainly has far more personality than blank-faced bug-eyed Amanda Seyfried. (Now there’s a hater movement I could get into.) ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/152 "2013-03-04T00:14:20Z")
do not get the hate. Tall Poppy Syndrome cut the chick down cus she won an Oscar. I think she’s a very strong actress, and good on her for her win. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/153 "2013-03-04T01:41:56Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Sorry, I can’t tell if you’re joking or making a point, so in case it’s the latter, I’ll double down and insist that Two Dogs Fucking, if there were such a person, would have a right to use that name. Considerations against using it are pragmatic, not moral. An old joke: A young Indian brave goes to his father and asks, “How are the people of our tribe given their names?” His father replies, with a deep, mystical look in his eyes, "After a child comes into the world, the child’s father goes to the doorway of his teepee and looks out. The first thing he sees is what the child is named. That is why your uncle is Eagle Bravely Flying, and your sister is Rising Sun… [punchline] ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/154 "2013-03-04T20:21:48Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > It’s her given name. Being offended that she uses it as her “stage name” isn’t _silly_, it’s moronic. Reminds me of the excellent slide guitarist **Roy Rogers** - it’s his given name. I think he was sued at one point by the cowboy star’s estate, but the case was dismissed. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/155 "2013-03-04T21:38:12Z")
> [@SleuFeets](#): > > I second the haters gone hate sentiment. > > I started really looking at her differently after her performance in “Rachel Getting Married”. It was obvious that she wasn’t playing games with her craft and would no longer be in the leagues of the “Princess Bride Diares” or whatever those movies were. > > I think the hater circle that has become the “media” , feels that Anne’s success stole something from them. She was supposed to be a mediocore actress or a Lindsey Lohan. The fact that she’s not, leaves them with little ammunition. I had the same reaction to _Rachel Getting Married_. Hathaway went from another ‘vaguely attractive but essentially interchangable’ actress to ‘she’s in it? I better check it out’ for me. Anyone who doubts her acting ability has either never seen this movie or is doesn’t know what they’re talking about IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/156 "2013-03-04T22:34:12Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > The fact that her parents started her on this presumptuous path doesn’t give her a pass for deliberately continuing down it. How is giving a child a common English given name (Anne) that happens to make her legal name the same as the maiden name of a somewhat-obscure historical figure “presumptuous”? ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/157 "2013-03-04T23:17:49Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I once dated a guy who was drop dead gorgeous. He was, by far, the best looking person I’ve ever had the pleasure of kissing. Trouble is, once we stopped kissing and started talking, I realized that he was missing a personality. He was vanilla ice cream with no hot fudge to make him truly delectable. > > Hathaway is like that. She’s really pretty, and earnest, and seems genuinely nice. But she doesn’t have a great personality to match. She lacks a sparkle in her eye, a crafty intelligence, or a great, raunchy wit, to balance out her personality. She isn’t very pretty doe. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/158 "2013-03-04T23:19:16Z")
Though. Maybe she’s doe-eyed, but she’s not a female deer. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/159 "2013-03-04T23:26:10Z")
She’s a regular drop of golden sun, damnit. Anyways, I used to like her. That is until I read this thread and realized the sparkle I thought I saw wasn’t really there. She lacks snappy comebacks and has ripped off Shakespeare’s wife. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-hate-anne-hathaway/651376/160 "2013-03-05T22:45:58Z")
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