I just figured he saw her in a movie first, playing a role, and met her in real life later. You can tell if someone is beautiful from a movie; you don’t know they’re witty and bright until you meet them.
Not offended.
I’m not offended. Maybe some object to the word “creature.”
I didn’t think it was offensive, nor was it intended to be.
I do get irritated when people focus on physical attributes to the exclusion of everything else. Even worse is “She’s pretty, and believe it or not, she’s smart, too!!” as if the two things were an odd combination. But I read his comment as: he was first struck by her appearance, then he was equally impressed by her wit and intelligence. It doesn’t seem to be an unusual progression. We see first, we meet and converse second, unless we meet on line. 
I’m a fat ugly girl and I think it’s perfectly acceptable. Nice, even.
Yeah, a person would need to work at being offended by that.
This is one of the most ridiculous controversies I’ve seen. I think this is one of those verbal ‘land mines’ that came up in one of the discussions on Donald Trump and political correctness.
This is 100% correct in this statement and in life
Good looking and brains. What’s not to like.
Yeah, the US has gotten ridiculous with this “I must be offended by everything” trend.
I wanna be a victim too! Me, me, me! I’m offended!
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I must admit that I can’t see a thing wrong with it (other than the fact he says Carrie Fisher she, I’m guessing a typo)./QUOTE]
It might not be. People, they talk like this now.
It doesn’t offend me at all.I can also understand how it might make sense. Perhaps they hadn’t been introduced yet, he saw her, and thought she was a beautiful woman. He got to know her and her intelligent, witty personality. I thought it was a kind tribute.
I’d like to add that even if someone managed to find minor offence in it, it is a man expressing his grief about his friend and people should be allowed more leeway then.
So, what’re you doin’ after this thread?
The moment you first lay eyes on Carrie Fisher, you can see that she’s beautiful. It takes some conversation to learn that she’s also witty and bright. He said the first thing that he noticed, and then followed up with the later things he noticed. Perfectly reasonable, especially considering that most of the people reading the tweet have not had the opportunity to learn how witty she is, but did already know of her beauty.
Not offensive at all.
Seems like a normal compliment to me.
Nothing much has changed in the last 34 years.
I’m somewhat more sensitive about sexism issues, as my posting history will readily show.
There was nothing sexist about Steve Martin’s comment at all.
Case closed.
Not offensive. Nice. Like some other posters I figured he’d seen her on screen before getting to know her.
I got upset thaT Martin was subjected to any shit about his comment.
Right. Jesus R2D2 Christ, you’re expressing grief for a friend and may not be at your best, and still it makes you fair game for not using all the right terminologies? Put down the torches and pitchforks, and the duck-weighing scales, villagers.
Old fashioned but not offensive. And I’ll be damned if I have to spend the rest of my life walking on eggshells lest Someone On The Internet demand I turn over my Liberal Card.
Weird.
That was actually my fourth grade teacher’s pet peeve. If somebody said “My dad, he went to the…” she’d cut them off and sharply say “My dad, he!” It made me so self conscious that I probably haven’t done it in almost 40 years.
I’ve often said that you rarely encounter people who actually want to be offended, but this definitely makes me wonder. I’m about as big a proponent of political correctness as you can be, and I don’t see what’s wrong here.
I’d even argue that this might be the case for many people: they first heard of her as that hot Star Wars chick, then later watched her doing witty things.
People need to fall back and remember why sexual objectification is sexist. It’s not merely the fact that someone finds someone pretty. This comment was anti-sexist.