Office by Alex Penny
Loves: Writing, No Doubt, pie, shoes, Newsweek, contemplating theology, a good book, makeup, Bob Dylan, Gators football. I'm a woman of diverse pursuits.
When people complain about “Those celebrities who are famous for the sake of being famous,” i.e. the Kardashians — remember that ever since film and photography first came on the scene, many of the people (especially women) who have been conventionally “famous” have gotten there because someone in a position of power decided that there was money to be made off of them.
Sometimes it was based on talent; just as often it was based simply on their ability to look good on a pinup poster. The fame machine doesn’t work much differently today than it did then, and the hierarchy is still pretty male-dominated (consider, for example, that Ryan Seacrest is the executive producer of the mostly female “Keeping up with the Kardashians.”)
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