Sickening Role Models
Why is it that people spend so much time reading up about celebrities? Britney Spears, Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice), Paris Hilton… that’s what people google for each and every day. Their newest hairstyles, diets, lovers, and scandals. Though these are beautiful women, its nothing to praise them about! Beauty is inhereted. You can’t change what you look like (if you’re a normal person, and not a plastic, botoxed celeb). What you can change is the person you are. What you do, how you live, and how you treat those around you.
Celebrities are hardly the type of people who I would see as role models. Maybe I’m just picky, but somehow I don’t understand how people can be so in awe of celebrities. Yes they look beautiful in magazines - probably because they’re so photoshopped, that you wouldn’t know about half their scars and blemishes. Yes, they have a lot of money, but they probably just have really wise financial advisers. These people give to charity, yes, but if you consider the percentage that they give, its not that much? People like Oprah obviously give more, but the average celebrity doesn’t give up that much. They don’t make a sacrifice to give to charity. Still living in the stuck up mansions of Hollywood, eating only the best, and wearing what none of us can even dream of touching! How convenient is it for them to give a couple of dollars to charity, and not really worry about the people who are out there struggling. People who die of hunger, while they just worry about what they look like.
Why is it then that so many people are so fond of these idols, who are barely happy themselves. A lot of celebs struggle with drugs, and like we all know, most of them are in unhappy relationships - sometimes even 4th and 5th marriages, anorexia and other eating disorders isn’t unknown to these wealthy stars either.
If I had to choose a real role model, it would definitely NOT be one of the sexy, slim, and toned Hollywood fames. I’d much rather look up to a successful, happy, and NORMAL person. Someone who deals with the same struggles as I do, and conquer them. Someone who really has to put it all out there in order to gain. Someone who can’t just go for botox, face lifts, and who knows what else to beautify themself. Someone who’s more beautiful from the inside, than the outside. Someone who dreams big dreams, and spend their time making their own, AND other people’s dreams come true. That would be my role model.
Still, when it comes to picking role models, the shallowness of our society points only in one direction, America’s favourite Hollywood stars.
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You may be railing against these types of celebs but you just played into their hands but wasting a whole post about them raising the presence on the internet. Remember these people believe there is no such thing as bad press.
I’m not sure celeberties are really role models to anyone but ignorant children. True, this is probably the grow subject to the most harm, but I think for the rest of us the iterest stems form the illusion of familiarity. We see these people on the screen, and we come to feel that we know them. Then, we feel like we are reading about people we know. If someone started writing about people i ACTUALLY know, like my friends, I would be riveted. But no one does. So I am interested in the people I pretend to know instead. But god knows I don’t look up to them. Still insofar as children do, I agree, its terrible.
I used to teach a leadership class to undergraduates and one of the class assignments was to identify a leader the student admired and critically assess their leadership style (good and bad). The bad news is that I would alweays get a few sports figures and actors. The good news is that most students selected someone they knew personally. If they did pick a public figure, it would be due to some real accomplishments beyond just being famous. For example, Oprah was a popular choice because her life story is very motivating for many young women.
JR whats wrong with choosing a sports figure? Please don’t bring up Oprah, she gives all kinds of advise to married people and people with kids yet she ain’t one of those things. She is a very clever, very sweet, media whore.
I don’t have anything against Oprah.
There’s nothing wrong with giving advice on a situation that you’re not in yourself. Most councilors are not drug addicts, but still they can help others with that problem.
I don’t have children myself, still, watching from the sideline, I can tell what a lot of parents are doing wrong.
I understand some people just curious about all the happening in the lives of those they feel they know. I myself find it pretty amusing to look at the celebrities’ clothes. Sometimes too bizarre to believe that they’d even consider going outside with it, but none the less, it can be entertaining.
I dont wanna be like them, I just wanna sleep with them (except Paris). : )
Does that count?
LOL Adrian, Somehow I think that’s better? :O
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