Being a 'celeb'

An aside before I talk about the subject of the post. This is a quote from an AP report, "Benedict lamented what he called strains on the traditional African family, condemning sexual violence against women and chiding countries that have approved abortion." Quite something to say in the same breath, isn't it? I suppose his papal wisdom and devout faith blinds him to the fact that it is often sexual violence against women that leads to them seeking abortions. Or would the pope prefer the victimised women to spawn unwanted kids anyway, all for the sake of supposedly pleasing a supposed almighty? Anyway...

So you are watching the telly, pretty much any idiocy that the box is spewing out. Chances are, 9 of 10 times, the mug on the screen will belong to a 'good looking' person. Actors, singers, newsreaders, and a whole host of other morons, including the often-doctored vox populi. Well, at least some of them have at least a shred of some talent or the other to their name. Half the time, I don't even know why the hell some idiot's mug is pasted all over the idiot box, or even who the idiot in question is. Does that make me ignorant? Not unless the benchmark for ignorance was brought down to accommodate idiot losers who have little better to do than follow the lives of other idiots rather than mind their own businesses. But I suppose they don't mind much, let alone their own businesses, since they have very little mind so to speak.

For instance, who is Jade Goody? Well, she is no more, so the question becomes, who was Jade Goody? If you ask me - who the fuck cares? But seriously, who was she and why was she famous? Because she came on a reality TV show at some point, before which she was a dental nurse. And why was she chosen to be on that reality TV show? Fuck knows. What did she do on it? I'll tell you what - she said Cambridge was in London and on being told that it was actually in East Anglia, thought it was somewhere abroad. Such dazzling display of boundless information about her own country while on television earned her the title of a media personality. What exactly is a media personality then? Yep, you guesses it - a celebrity!

Anyway, so what is it that entitles someone to get their few seconds of fame by becoming, if nothing else, a media personality, whatever that is? And why do these so called celebrities set trends, be it a hairstyle, purity rings or even videos of sexual acts, and that, coming from some talentless brainless nitwits? And why is it that there are such few ugly faces on TV, unless being shown as freaks or some such? I don't think that the so-called ugly people have not a single talented bone in their bodies or that they are universally dumb too. I am sure they can act, they can sing and dance, they know their news, whatever the hell else. In fact, this is one form of discrimination I think is more rampant than most others put together and is perhaps also the most difficult to prove.

When it comes to females, this obsession to look a certain way, what is considered looking good, is almost comical. I mean, on the one hand, they talk of feminist emancipation and on the other, celebrate aesthetic conformation as an assertion of their emancipated femininity. Someone really ought to tell them what it means to be emancipated in the true sense of the word. But then again, I suppose it doesn't matter if I say these things, since after all, I am no celebrity.