"But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess"
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The throwaway shrug of "I guess" is doing most of the work here. Radha Mitchell isn’t delivering a manifesto; she’s deflating the idea that any personal choice, especially one that gets culturally policed like vegetarianism, needs a polished moral lecture attached to it. The line feels like it’s spoken mid-interview, mid-qualification, as if she’s already aware of the invisible courtroom: people want a clean narrative for why you do what you do, and they want it to land on one side of the virtue/vibe divide.
The phrase "another factor" is quietly strategic. It frames vegetarianism not as a headline identity but as a variable in a larger equation: health, ethics, environment, taste, upbringing, convenience. That wording resists the celebrity expectation to turn lifestyle into branding. She acknowledges the choice without letting it calcify into a public personality trait.
There’s also a soft satire of how conversations about food get flattened into moral theater. By underplaying it, she sidesteps the two predictable traps: the sanctimony people project onto vegetarians, and the defensiveness meat-eaters perform in response. The intent reads as social friction management: disclose just enough to be honest, keep it casual enough to avoid becoming a spokesperson.
In a celebrity culture that rewards certainty and soundbites, the modesty of "I guess" is its own stance: a preference for lived complexity over audience-ready conviction.
The phrase "another factor" is quietly strategic. It frames vegetarianism not as a headline identity but as a variable in a larger equation: health, ethics, environment, taste, upbringing, convenience. That wording resists the celebrity expectation to turn lifestyle into branding. She acknowledges the choice without letting it calcify into a public personality trait.
There’s also a soft satire of how conversations about food get flattened into moral theater. By underplaying it, she sidesteps the two predictable traps: the sanctimony people project onto vegetarians, and the defensiveness meat-eaters perform in response. The intent reads as social friction management: disclose just enough to be honest, keep it casual enough to avoid becoming a spokesperson.
In a celebrity culture that rewards certainty and soundbites, the modesty of "I guess" is its own stance: a preference for lived complexity over audience-ready conviction.
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