OPINION:
It's really hot in Europe right now so Brad Pitt wore a skirt. This should not be shocking to anyone and yet there are people on the internet with their knickers in an absolute twist about it.
Pitt was in Berlin this week for the premiere of his latest film, Bullet Train. What else was in Berlin, you may ask? The heatwave that is currently sweeping Europe and that we should be talking about a whole lot more because it has already killed many hundreds and is nothing if not a terrifying warning of what's to come.
Yet, the jokes online multiply and many headlines have been written about Pitt's linen skirt, which he told a reporter on the red carpet he wore because of "the breeze". It's 30 goddamn degrees in Berlin and Pitt knows a skirt is the way to stay cool.
Pitt has been considered a sex symbol longer than many people have been alive (not me, though, my back pain is a constant reminder that I've been alive long enough to have had Pitt posters hanging on my bedroom walls). He's worn skirts many times before (who can forget his 1999 Rolling Stone photoshoot, at the height of his hypermasculine Fight Club era, with hoop earrings and short dresses?) and, at 58-years-old he's still rocking them (although, not wanting to sound like my mum but, Bradley, hon, would it have hurt you to run an iron over that?).
