Daniel D'Addario writes on Salon about why Golden Globes speeches by Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, and Michael Douglas betrayed the characters they were being honored for representing so well this year.

Leto’s speech managed to pat Leto on his own back while trivializing actual transgender people — he played a trans woman with AIDS, at the height of America’s AIDS crisis. ...

...Douglas’ speech, for his best actor in a TV movie prize, was worse. Douglas, at the Emmys last year, made a string of crude and offensive jokes about anal sex; it was as though he was frantically trying to distance himself from the character he played on-screen. And at the Golden Globes, he unburdened himself to the audience, telling a laughing gaggle that he had been worried when first offered the role of Liberace in “Behind the Candelabra,” because it implied he had previously been “mincing.”