it cant just be me...or can it?
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Bread and circuses, my friend, bread and circuses. Don't pay attention to the empire crumbling around you, lets go watch Miley Cyrus use a foam finger as a dildo belt. I actually found the whole thing sort of depressing, and I hate Miley. She's trying so hard to stay relevant, and no one cares. Pathetic white trash. I could drive to the nearest trailer park and see the same thing.shootthebandit said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSlqI1AVUk
That's alright, I can't distinguish Snooki from an orange with a wig.Zachary Amaranth said:
It is kinda sad that people would be outraged over it. A celebrity showing skin in 2013? Oh my.
Especially when there's human beings out there with real problems. But whatever.
I'm not entirely sure what your problem is, because I manage fine to avoid it without putting any effort into doing so at all. It actually takes me LESS effort to not click on a link under the picture of an extremely poorly dressed celeb than it would to do so. Now I don't know about news outlets in your country, but where I live the major news networks barely mention celeb news even if it is what would be considered kind of big ones. I see the gossip magazines in the store, but I don't look at or buy them. I hear people talking about the latest Justin Bieber disaster or "the new 'friday' song, you just HAVE to listen to how bad it is", but I don't want to listen to bad music. I trust you when you say it's shit, I don't need to know for sure. I don't personally consider myself part of the "we" you are talking about... I'm likely part of some other "we", but not that one X3.
You are NEVER the only one to *insert anything*.
You are NEVER the only one to *insert anything*.
Apparently, she's a role model, too. She did a song about doing cocaine, BTW. Cocaine and X. That was okay, but this? Think of the children! It's okay to look up to someone who does drugs, but someone who wears a skimpy outfit?Dead Century said:
I mean, I'm not bothered about drug use in a song, but it is funny where people's priorities lie.
Also, yes. Real problems. It really is a shame that we care more about what someone's wearing than bigger issues.
But if we're going to discuss Miley, I think the biggest question of all is....
Meh, i just ignore it. I mean, i like video games, which is basically escapism.
What is following "the celebrities" if not other form of escapism?
My hobby has been judged long enough for me to understand why i shouldnt judge others.
You say you hate judging people. Its simple. "Just dont do it" (can i TM this?)
Saying "its a bad role model" is well.... true. But so are 99% games. Those things are not supposed to be role models. Your parents are supposed to be that.
I think its stupid, but far be it from me to tell that to people who CHOOSE to do so.
So in short - to me its a form of escapism, and who the hell am i to say mine is better.
Live and let live.
What is following "the celebrities" if not other form of escapism?
My hobby has been judged long enough for me to understand why i shouldnt judge others.
You say you hate judging people. Its simple. "Just dont do it" (can i TM this?)
Saying "its a bad role model" is well.... true. But so are 99% games. Those things are not supposed to be role models. Your parents are supposed to be that.
I think its stupid, but far be it from me to tell that to people who CHOOSE to do so.
So in short - to me its a form of escapism, and who the hell am i to say mine is better.
Live and let live.
I don't care about celebrity culture, and I learned about this Miley Cyrus thing through this thread, but if we're going to talk about priorities and real problems, well, we play videogames and we discuss jiggletits and bikini armor. Some people watch TV and discuss Miley Cyrus.
This is what happens when you get rid of the aristocracy and monarchies, you get folk of class and standard and face replaced with people you can lose all face, class and standard and still achieve money, fame and... more money.
But seriously I never really liked celebrity culture, I understand it through, being nosey and having idols (even false idols) is nice and comforting, etc.
But seriously I never really liked celebrity culture, I understand it through, being nosey and having idols (even false idols) is nice and comforting, etc.
Not a very good one. Hence why we have a lot of the gender issues in our culture today. It's not the only reason for sure, but it's definitely contributing.shootthebandit said:
Just to point out, you keep talking about "culture" as if it's this living thing with it's own actions. "Culture" isn't segregating us into different groups. WE THE PEOPLE IN THE CULTURE are doing that. We've been doing this since the dawn of our species. Tribe vs tribe, male vs woman, god vs god, geographical location A vs geographical location B, etc etc. It's what we do. It's not a very pretty part of human nature, but it's there. We segregate, we seperate, we create Us vs Them scenarios all the time. It's just how we're wired biologically. It's something we have to actively suppress and work around, and we will probably be doing it forever.shootthebandit said:
I don't wonder why at all.shootthebandit said:
Yep! That's humanity for you. And to be fair, it's not just western culture, EVERY human society has these traits to some degree or other. They emphasize others more than us perhaps, and vice versa, but it's still there. Look at the gender inequality in a place like India, and then tell me if giving girls body image issues is really worse. Yeah it's not GOOD, but women could be in a MUCH MUCH worse situation overall, here in this "culture" you keep talking about.shootthebandit said:
*shrugs* Humans don't care about what happens really far away from them. George Carlin did a skit, saying roughly "A person's concern/interest in a particular tragedy is inversely proportional to his proximity to it." Again, it's just how we are as humans. Yet another thing we have to try and work around.shootthebandit said:
Not you.
I hate celebrities as well.
I mean, it's just strange that people make an ass of themselves in public while in public after getting famous.
I hate celebrities as well.
I mean, it's just strange that people make an ass of themselves in public while in public after getting famous.
Hardly. I can't tell you what it means and I've been surrounded by stereotypical teens (from what I gather, the primary propagators of the vast majority of this irksome pop culture. terms included) for my entire high-school career, of which I just began the final year.Zhukov said:
The only thing that irritates me is that it gets on the news. We could be bombing syria anytime now, but instead we're watching Miley Cyrus twerking on the news. If the news started reporting on video games after a hundred thousand people died then yes, I would agree, that's stupid.Master of the Skies said:
I barely knew anything about this prior to reading this thread. I knew something was going with Miley Cyrus, but I never what it was exactly.
With that said, I don't necessarily hate celebrities, as some of them are nice people that don't let all the fame go to their head, but I can't stand the culture surrounding them. I mostly avoided it until I worked a job where nearly everyone was obsessed with celebrity culture. I basically just hoped my lunch break came at the same time as the one other guy who wasn't into it that way I would have something to do other than watch the shows surrounding it. Unfortunately that didn't happen often, so lunch was generally the worst hour of my day. Eventually, though, I managed to tune it out enough to play Sudoku on my phone.
With that said, I don't necessarily hate celebrities, as some of them are nice people that don't let all the fame go to their head, but I can't stand the culture surrounding them. I mostly avoided it until I worked a job where nearly everyone was obsessed with celebrity culture. I basically just hoped my lunch break came at the same time as the one other guy who wasn't into it that way I would have something to do other than watch the shows surrounding it. Unfortunately that didn't happen often, so lunch was generally the worst hour of my day. Eventually, though, I managed to tune it out enough to play Sudoku on my phone.
It's not just you. Practically everyone but the people engrossed in celebrity culture hates the media's obsession with celebrity culture. No-one but vapid teenage girls, mums with no lives, and boys with low standards actually like Miley Cyrus or any of the other just-old-enough-to-not-be-jailbait pop stars and their ilk.
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