Portia de Rossi on the importance of being married

Sigh...she is SO dreamy.

 

 

It's a shame that just cos you're gay, out and in the public eye nobody is interested in anything other than your sexuality and political views on the 'ethics' of marriage.

Well done Portia, held your own girl!

Maybe one day these kind of interviews won't revolve around who you're doing but what you're doing, especially from the top of the interview and not an apparent afterthought! 

 

"Um, not to get all Spock, but that was highly illogical."

LMFAOOOOOO that made me laugh so loud <3

but, on topic...i love Portia. Elisabeth can suck it

portia.. RAWR!

 

elizabeth, dummy dum dum, why is she there?! better yet, why is that show still running?! it painfully stings every cell in my body whenever it's on

It's true what she said about men thinking they can still get 'women like Portia'. Too bad they actually CAN'T get women like Portia then, isn't it?

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Portia is awesome. The View (especially Elisabeth) is not so awesome.

Also, entirely off topic: I love that all the other ladies are wearing high-heeled strappy shoes, while Whoopi's in her colourful socks and slippers.

what people like Elisabeth would say if the situation was reversed. It's so easy to dismiss things as just 'words' when it doesn't really affect them. Heterosexual people have the option of getting married anywhere in the world, regardless of religion, so it's easy to say marriage is only a word. For those who don't have the privilege and/or the right, 'marriage' is a lot more than just a word. I applaud what Portia said and how eloquently she said it.  

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If Ellen is the president of the queer women's club, Portia is most certainly our First Lady. And I don't think we could ask for a more beautiful, more grounded, more eloquent spokeslesbian.

I've heard a lot of people (especially last year leading up to and following Prop 8) get very frustrated that Portia and Ellen weren't at the forefront of celebrities involved in the struggle. My personal opinion is that being an activist is different for every person and no one should be expected to turn their career into activism if it's not for them. Especially since the two of them being married is (for everyone else) kind of a political symbol all by itself. So while I was never upset that they weren't more vocal before, it's really gratifying to see Portia cspeaking so eloquently in such widely viewed forums.

My favorite moment has to be the look on Portia's face as Elizabeth is saying "they're not asking to be called men." It's so clearly "Is she really that much of an idiot?"

anywhere else i can watch this interview?  i cannot load it on my work computer, thanks!!!

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the only classy thing abt the interview was portia. i will thank whoopi for rising above stupid questions her other panelists couldnt avoid. if she is thinking abt leaving it is painfully obvious why. i did love the one look on portials face when the question was asked by hassy. it was definitely a llet me calm down before i answer this stupid questionl moment. good jobportia on staying classy, good job.                                        If someone shows you who they are, believe them ~ maya angelou

Oh, Portia... you make me smile. She's so amazing and dreamy. She was so poised and well spoken. I'm happy to have her on our side.

It's funny to me that the right wing spends so much of their time obsessed with words, like whether the President uses the phrase "war on terror" or the word, "terrorist," but don't seem to grasp why the word marriage is so important. 

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The look she gave Elisabeth was pure awesomeness.... kinda like "You're a friggin idiot....." 

 

Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me.

Interesting...reference to Imagine me & you, so true. lol @ the Hasselbeck shaking Portia's hand afterward as though they had just been in combat, Portia looked pretty nervous. ugh elizabeth isn't worth the hassle...

Oh Portia...you sure shut Elisabeth's mouth up.

I love her even more...she is amazingly beautiful. Ellen is a very lucky woman

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Why do they need to use the word marraige?

That's like asking why people of certain race need to be called human.

 

Wtf Hasselbeck? Go back to loving wars.

I kept wanting Portia to ask Elisabeth how she would feel if people were to tell her that she couldn't get married to her husband or that her "union" with him shouldn't be called a marriage.

"the fact that the majority gets to vote on the rights of minorities seems very un-american to me"----AMAZING!

she is so intelligent and lovely!

and speak their truth with such eloquence. Go, Portia!!

 

 

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Go Portia! <3 =]

should be labotomized and all brain matter should be removed...the whole porcess should take approximately .2 seconds.

 

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I love the way Portia dealt with that question and the other kind of snide remarks about expressing "her view" that went on in that interview.

She stayed calm, didn't get cross, and made her point beautifully and in clear and simple terms.

She must have to put up with that kind of thing all the time - she understands why of course but it doesn't make it any easier.

 

Portia kicked ASS in that interview... right on Portia, well done!!

Go Portia :D love how she just kept calm.. kinda like a teacher talking slowly to a thick kid...

I'm sorry but I just gotta say... I LOVE YOU WHOOPI!!!

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Just to echo what everyone else has said - yay for portia and her gorgeous smackdown. However, I was wondering, where did her accent go?  I caught a trace of it towards the end and it was only then that I realized it was AWOL for most of the interview.  Has it simply faded over time or does she downplay it like some actors who play Americans on TV?

Also, I heart Whoopi but she totally phoned this one in. I wasn't sure if she was awake for most of it.

Forgive me, I'm trying to wrap my head around Elisabeth's logic here...

"Women want all the same rights as men, but they don't want to be called men."...therefore why shouldn't gays want all the rights of marriage but not want to call it marriage?  Is she implying that 'marriage' is a fundamentally heterosexual institution?  That a married couple of the same gender is so fundamentally different from a married couple of different genders that it would be wrong to call it a 'marriage'?  Aaaak... *brain explodes*

Anyway, goodonya Portia for launching a smackdown there. :-) The only thing that's kind of disappointing to me (as an Aussie) is the fact that she's changed her beautiful accent to sound more American.  Portia is from Geelong, VIC, Australia...not that you could tell from watching this.  :(  Oh well.

Was that jackass dropped on her head?  Seriously, someone needs to shut her the fuck up. 

Well done Portia you handled that with grace and poise as always. Some people are so fecking stupid that they dont get that distinguishing between people is flipping inequality. Its crazy. Do they actually think that gay people just want to be married just to say they are married , when it means so much more. In Ireland its the same with the civil partnership bill which despite being an improvement on whats there already, is still very much a way of saying being gay is 2nd class citizenhip.

Elisabeth what a moron!

i enjoy her eloquence to the opposition. elizabeth is purely on the view to offer the conservative republican standpoint, even though she's younger. i liked Lisa Ling way better, she has brains. although many people express their dismay of the view, i am glad that portia is willing to put her relationship out there for all the people watching daytime tv shows, a different demographic catagory than ellen. in light of what happened in new york, i think marriage for same-sex couples needs to go the federal route or maybe they should call it something else completely use that word for all legal bonding between both same-sex and hetero relationships, churchs could use another word and we could BAN "marriage" from the dictionary. as portia said it's a love/committment thing not a religion thing. i still want man rights but i am NOT a man...dumby. is she even a feminist? or maybe she thinks she's a woman thereby a feminist?

Hasselbeck is such a tool that I am aware that I'm insulting tools with the comparison. "Women want all the rights of men..." Really, Elizabeth? Is that where you're going to jump off with your point? A pointless point, at best, that goes nowhere, and then drowns in a pool of its own mess.

love the imagine me and you reference. and obviously portia is seven shades of excellent. she's getting better at interviews too; not as nervous as she used to be. marriage has clearly served her well!

Elisabeth is intelligent enough to use semantics to draw far-fetched parallels between 2 situations, but only uses it to reach her own ignorant and irrational conclusions. I'm both impressed and disgusted.

A total waste of brains.

I think the only reason she is there is to grow old with the show as the old lady has... creepy.

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Well done Portia.