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won’t be going away because we need her around so much, just like the abusive family needs a misbehaving child, reacting to their dysfunction, to scapegoat and pathologize, and to distract attention from their weakness and failures.
Amanda got it right over at Pandagon. Whatever consequences Paris has earned, and however well or poorly she accepts them, doesn’t explain our fixation, anger and projection.
What we can’t stand is that she’s sexually free and unapologetic about it, and instead of finding the courage to ask ourselves why we can’t be as free as Paris, we punish her for reminding us that we aren’t. That’s a need that will keep her around indefinitely.
