RE: [Marxism] RE: Gossip about Paris Hilton

[Ben Courtice <benj2006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Flanders wrote:
"So now we have an example of a bourgeois seeking and reveling in ersatz 
celebrity, in order to fulfill the ultimate in current super status, 
having one's every move chronicled by the paparazzi."

I would add, the persona adopted by Hilton is a series of sexist 
stereotypes gratifying to the chauvinist male mind: it gets to ogle, 
watch porn, laugh at frivolous bimboesque antics, moralise about her 
decadent behaviour, and probably more that I haven't even thought of -- 
all over the one sad character. Sadly many lunchroom and media critics 
of the celebrity personality of Paris Hilton, in criticising one 
shortcoming, blindly fall foul of the others.

Ben  Courtice

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