Maybe the voice of the Everyman has become a little too loud.
I'm fine with micro-demographics bringing back TV shows. I'm fine with insignificant people making videos in which they knee other insignificant people to the groin and then posting said videos in the public domain.
What I am not fine with is ordinary people affecting the lives of extraordinary people by making them second-guess their choices.
Who says that this is not a stunning and significant photograph? Not Vanity Fair. Not her family. Some soccer mom in Texas? No. 4 million soccer moms in Texas. And now, thanks to the internet, they all get to say so. And suddenly, a beautiful, candid photograph that makes useless teeny-bopper Miley Cyrus look like she might have something worthwhile to say someday about something (maybe) is what? Degrading? Exploitative? Please. That girl's life has not been her own for years now. Don't make her feel "embarrassed" for having a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz. Don't make her put "artistic" in quotes when talking about the photoshoot. Don't knock on the French windows of our Elite, middle America. And Elite, please please don't let us in.
About Me
- Helen
- I am both emotionally balanced and an avid consumer of popular culture. I have achieved this enviable state by believing that there is a place and time for every form of media consumption in our big bright bossy showboat of a nation. I am able to enjoy both “The Girls Next Door” with a hot dog and High Life and “This American Life” over Earl Grey and Finn Crisps, sometimes on the same day. I do not shovel it all in indiscriminately, as I fear so many of my peers must do. I am a Vassar graduate and a People.com devotee. There are others like me, and we are strong.
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