Oh, Tom, you were SO close!
LOVE the fact that you went back on the Today Show to clear the air – ahem – promote your new movie and that you apologized – and even acknowledged that you were arrogant back in 2005. But, apparently, you don’t quite understand the whole problem.
Not to re-open old wounds, but attacking Brooke Shields for using anti-depressants to treat post-part depression was not only ‘glib’ – it showed that you know absolutely nothing about women. I know you’ve tried; you’ve been on Oprah a couple times and we all know she is THE woman, and you supported Katie when she went on Broadway and walked around New York with Suri like you were Mr. Mom, but… you slipped up.
Come on, you HAD to expect the “another baby?” question. And why not have an answer prepared? Certainly anything would have been better than “I think that’s the question for the women.” That makes it sound like Debra Messing, Meg Ryan, and Annette Bening are going to be making the decision for you, or that Katie is living up on your mountain resort with a coven or a sorority and you just pop in for the occasional visit.
Oh.
Instead of sounding like the affable husband you sounded condescending and uninvolved. It kinda sounded like “If she needs my sperm I’m there, otherwise I stay out of it.”
Oh.
All right, then. Maybe that was the right answer.