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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I don't seek out yet another report about PH to brighten my mundane life. The media keep feeding it me, everywhere. Even the BBC, the last refuge of quality, can't stay away from her smirk.
All of this for a woman who has accomplished nothing in life and gets rich doing so.
What happened to this article:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/12/11/paris_hilton/
Six months later you're still blathering on about Paris Hilton. Just shut the fuck up already.
1)"...since by all appearances, she's never been punished, never been forced to eat anything she doesn't like, never had to sleep anywhere uncomfortable or wear anything unflattering."
2)"At the very least, we were witnessing a coddled child having a severe allergic reaction to the real world."
Problem is: When George gets his 'allergic reaction' Iran might turn to rubble.
[Spent three and half months in the can because I couldn't buy my way out of the DUI...but then; I'd already seen some toughening.
DO feel a bit for the poor little bitch.]
First off, Salon is looking a little pathetic complaining about the coverage of a woman it regularly covers.
Second, she is in our faces because she has been marketed by media corporations to willing consumers. Just because she's rich and fucked up doesn't mean she deserves all the blame for being a product, or for being written about in Salon.
In fact, I consume huge quantities of real news and the only time I read about Paris Hilton, outside grocery check-out-lane-headlines, is when Salon writes about her. That means Salon, not Hilton, is most to blame for her antics coming into my life.
This woman will never lead a real life because those around her have taken advantage of her bad instincts at a young age. Not exactly a situation in which it is “progressive” to tell her to fuck off.
George Bush is rumored to be considering a package deal: Scooter AND Paris will be pardoned together. Sources within the Administration say, "The two cases share many essentials in terms of issues of equality before the law. It would simply be wrong to pardon one without doing both. And Bush, after all, is nothing if not a defender of the rule of law. He's the 'Defender'."
Many usually nice people that I know were surprisingly nasty and happy about seeing what happened to Paris Hilton. It seems that the class structure developing in our society is making very many people angry about the lifetstyle of the 5% or so of people who have the most wealth in this country, while watching the income and the aspirations of the middle class and poor people decline. It also brought into focus for me an understanding of the feelings that people in 3rd world countries must have about the lifestyle of people in this country. They must feel that we are as spoiled and unfeeling as we feel about Paris Hilton - and the underlying anger that has erupted with the Paris story among usually nice people in the U.S. is similar to the larger anger that is felt towards this country. Unfortunately, for the past 6 years we have had a President that has epitomized all the negative beliefs that other nations have about us. I hope 2008 brings about a positive change - perhaps our next president will be able to travel to other countries and not be greeted by angry crowds.
I, too, am dismayed by the apparently total media coverage of Paris's most recent antics. Is she really worth a column in the New York Times? Does her pain and suffering merit a segment on the Evening News? But then, this is the Media according to George W. Bush, the media that glosses over the horrendous events in Irag and the Mideast, the media that fails to fully inform the American public of other happenings that do concern many of us.
It's unlikely Paris will ever do anything worthwhile with her life. The single skill she seems to have developed is that of making people look at her. Not necessarily with admiration or envy, wonder perhaps. We wonder why she thinks she's worthy of anyone's attention or concern. We wonder how the media, the once-honorable profession of journalism is now so much like tabloid journalism, it's hard to tell them apart.
Perhaps though I have misjudged Ms. Hilton. She has reduced many of us to the same moral level she occupies. Yet, as thinking humans we watch to see how this will turn out, when she will no longer hold any interest for any of us. Soon, I hope, very soon.
Oh c'mon -- let's stop trying to make sensitive justifications for our attraction to this story. It's like when I was 12 years old and explained the magazines under my mattress as an interest in "anatomy." Except it's backwards now: I've fallen in with the prudes.
We're not free of this story because we LOVE the way that the bratty Paris is getting a comeuppance. We love the way the coddled Paris has to be uncomfortable. Since we're jealous of her money, that makes the "justice" all the sweeter. We even cross the transom of motherly brittleness and start calling her a "whore," like there's something wrong with that.
Well, I love that whore. :)
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.
...with Paris Hilton being the featured exhibitionist and the media playing the role of the odd little guy in the s/m gear.
Okay, maybe it's a plain old freak show and no one can look away.
HH however does write a very nice article that tries to underneath the shallowness of the "victim" (us and her) and make sense of a post-post-modern world of weird celeb BS.
My theory however is she's a plant by the Bush admin to divert eyes from the real world mess of Iraq, GOP corruption and health care. Functionally that's what Ms. Hilton is doing...and we're biting, hook, line and sinker.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
