Celebrities -- their behaviour and lives

Sleaze is the new black -- at least in the celebrity world.  It is totally mind-boggling and beyond normality that nudity, sleaze, offensive sordid trashy behaviour are now the norm, and are in the news.  

Miley, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Bieber, and so many others need the attention and the money that attention brings.  At what price?  What happened to self-respect and dignity?  There are many performers and actors out there who still rake in the dollars, but are dignified and normal.   Ah, yes, "what is normal"?   No splitting hairs here, most of us know the difference between letting it all (and more) hang out for the world to see -- and not doing so.

Don't they have children, parents, relatives?  

Young and not so young women exposing themselves to the world - as if no one else has boobs and cleavage.  At least, if them boobs were real!   But no, she's showing off to the world that the two half-canteloupes attached to her chest are so fake, and she paid a lot for them, so here they are, with the outline so clearly visible.  Yes, mind-boggling.   

And the media eats it up.  Sleaze sells.  But after you've exposed all to the world, what's left to do?   Aha, twerking and sticking out your dirty tongue?  Showing that you don't wear underwear?  Performing bodily functions in public?   Ah, yes, contemporary Western culture....

QUESTIONS ON STUFF THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE

Why do celebrities and wannabies think it's "cool" to pose in underwear or even less?  What will that get you?  Publicity?  Sure.  There you are, exposed to the world, forever on social media, with you boobs (often obviously fake) and your full behind luxuriating in full-colour for all the world to see.  The tabloids (and sometimes semi-news agencies) have headlines about this or that celebrity bimbo with her beach body or her wardrobe malfunction, or the baby bump (no one else has every gotten pregnant?) and the perfect post-baby-body a week later (yeah, sure!).  Or, horrors, a celebrity is a (gasp!) size 12 or 14  (quelle horreur!) -- a normal human body in the real world), or may display some cellulite.  

Then the celebrities who "forget" to wear their underwear.  My, just slipped my mind to put on some panties.   Or is that the thong (a really comfortable necessary functional piece of clothing....).  We're not even mentioning bras -- those don't matter nowadays.  Then you've got the side boob thing.

Even the teen celebrities have gotten sleazy.  That'll get you ahead in the world?  For some, I guess.   Onto the pages of the men's magazines.  But for how long, and for what purpose?  You don't have parents, relative, children?  No shame?  No self respect at all?  What will this type of fame get you?

A DIFFERENT KIND OF BULLYING

It is so terrible, so very wrong, that bullying exists.  At least now there is discussion and action to curtail it, if not to stop it.  Do young kids learn this on their own?  Do they just follow others?  Or do they learn by example from adults?

There is another type of bullying out there -- in the media.  Switching channels, I came across two sad excuses for "entertainment" -- TMZ and The Fashion Police.  Sure, celebrities are in the news and need to be in the news.  It's a vicious circle -- you have to be out there to be current, but you hate to be pursued by the paparazzi and other "reporters."  But you need that photo or article -- but to what degree?  Where is the fine line?

So, the above-mentioned programs (and there may be others that, mercifully, I don't know about) do cover celebrities, but in a most cruel way.  

Fashion Police discusses and disses what celebrities wear.  Yes, many of the outfits are pathetic and wrong, but who are the people dissing them and how qualified are they to do so?  A young woman with lavender/gray hair with too many tattoos all over her body, a plastic-surgeon-stretched foul-mouthed woman who needs to turn the mirror on herself, and the rest of this entourage?  What do they look like?  And they're judging others, with such downright cruel vicious comments?  Watched this once, and wanted to take a shower.

Same with the childish and cruel TMZ -- this gaggle of arrested adolescents, permanently attached to their bottles and cups, not exactly very well groomed themselves, are dissing and mocking others?   If you can't say anything cruel, don't say anything at all?  If this isn't public bullying, I don't know what is.

Yes, some celebrities need to look in the mirror before buying an outfit, and not listen to the supposed stylist who has no taste him/herself, but that's their choice.  

The tabloid journalism in print, on TV, and online feeds on itself and on the cruelty it spouts in mocking and belittling and bullying others.   What a great job!  What a great example to others!   Do you feel good in what you have accomplished?
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So today I see this item.  I cannot fathom Lady Gaga.  But there she is, also talking about bullying!