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Paris has grown up to be what she was encouraged to be. She understood that female sexuality and vapidity what what this culture wants to eat, and she served herself up...
more visibly than many, but scarcely more outrageously than our 11-year-olds who think, in middle school, that giving boys blow jobs is a requirement kind of like gym class.
I am far more revolted by the media who feed this appetite, this article not excepted.
She didn't need the money. She is anorexic and poorly educated. One day she will be like an aging porn star who anguishes alone, because nobody's interested.
I wish Salon and every other media would stop hiding behind the thin curtain of "news" and show character and leadership.
Every time Keith Olberman sneers at these half-dead, witless young Hollywood women, I am terribly disappointed but not surprised. From Salon, I keep hoping for more evolved thinking. But an article that pours more acid on her while she clearly has no sense of self (or self-protection) is just a different kind of mean.
But then...there's Broadsheet, which really does explain all of this, if only the editors would think it all the way through.
You don't have to be a humorless prude to report on culture in a way that would change it for the better. You don't have to be snide, you don't have to be angry, you just need a soupcon of compassion...and enough curiosity to posit alternative ways of looking at the things that happen.
