We Have Become A World Of Babies!

Posted on | January 21, 2007 |

The links above show just a smattering of the crybaby bawling that is going on in the world. Is everyone in the world so unhappy that they have to scour the internet to find celebrities whose lives are, or should be, worse than theirs?

Who cares if Britney likes to hang out in nightclubs? Does it change any of our lives? No, it doesn’t. You can cry about her lifestyle all you want, but it is HER lifestyle, not yours. When so many kids in our country are dealing with so much more, why are so many people worried about the quality of her children’s lives? Even if they are raised by nannies and Britney only sees them once a month, they will still have more advantages than almost any other kid out there. The reality is that the children of the ultra wealthy have lived that way for generations, and no one ever cared before. Now that we have the internet and “entertainment news” all of a sudden their lifestyles should be picked apart for any sign of weakness.

Do we really need to protect the contestants of American Idol from cruelty? Is it cruel to tell someone who sings like a howling coyote that he or she sings like a howling coyote? When did honesty become cruelty? Simon simply gives these would be stars a taste of what the public and the paparazzi will do to them if they somehow do become famous. If they can’t handle Simon telling them that they look like an idiot in that outfit on American Idol, how are they going to handle it when Joan Rivers tells the world that they look like an idiot in that outfit on the Red Carpet?

That brings me to Gibson, Goody, and Washington, and Richards. Why, when someone can act and entertain, do we give their personal opinions greater weight than anyone else’s? There are a lot people in this world that are bigots, racists, and homophobes. Why does it become an international incident when an actor proves to be one? Does the fact that Michael Richards can’t argue with a black man without using the N word really affect anyone? If you don’t like it, vote with your dollars and don’t go see his shows. Do the people of Britain, the producers of Big Brother, the CEO of Channel 4 and every white person in the world really need to be punished because Jade Goody is tactless idiot? Shetty is painted as a poor victim, (Even though she got paid about $4 million for being there). There are people every day of the week all over the world who experience needless racism and pathetic bullying without getting paid for it. The Big Brother show concept aims to bring out peoples real feelings, and we are all shocked that those feeling really came out, now a nation of almost a billion people are pissed off because of one or two real emotions. Mel Gibson doesn’t like Jews. Holy Shit! What are we going to do now!!! Every religion in the world condemns the members of every other religion to hell. We are all taught that lesson in our own version of Bible study. But when we grow up we are told that now we have to be tolerant and accepting of everyone else’s religion. Heck, if Satan himself were on the subway next to us, we would be expected to show tolerance! Does it really change the world that Mel doesn’t like Jews when he’s drunk? NO, it doesn’t. Isaiah Washington called costar T.R. Knight a “faggot”. I’ve been called a faggot in my life, and it didn’t change my life a bit. If I was gay and someone called me a faggot, would that be any different? I don’t think so. It doesn’t change the world.

It doesn’t change the world. I’ll say it again. It doesn’t change the world.

It reflects the world.

We are so pissed off at our own reflections that we go into a tizzy every time someone reminds us that we aren’t perfect. We want to punish celebrities who show behaviors that happen everyday in real life. The fact is, racism is real. Bigotry is real. Perfection is not. We don’t need to punish someone every time we are reminded of this. We don’t need to cancel a television show every time that it gives us a dose of that imperfect reality. We need to quit being crybabies and get over it.

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