Note: As promised, this blog will no longer be only about food. While I do have a day job as a magazine writer and blogger, some of the writing I consider my best goes unpublished or unnoticed. From now on, "The View From 206" will be home to some of these musings, which cover everything from entertainment to health trends.
Drug overdoses! Full-frontal nudity! I will grant the Kardashian clan
one thing: they never run out of zany new ways to get America talking.
About them. All the time. It’s as if the entire family gathers around
the breakfast table in the morning and kicks around ideas about how they
can become the top story of the day. (Including, but not limited to:
short-lived “marriages” to NBA players, births broadcast live from the
delivery room, and underage girls partying hard and working the stripper
pole.)
At the end of the day, the Queen of All Publicity Stunts,
Kris Jenner, browses Twitter and gossip rags to see if that day’s antics
attracted sufficient attention. And that’s by her standards, not
ours—most people don’t expect to be followed by crowds of eager
photographers each time they hit the gym for yoga class. (Luckily, the
Kardashian sisters only attend “hot” yoga, “naked” yoga, or “tantric”
yoga, and they conveniently discuss it in earshot of the paparazzi, just
in case they’d like to follow them there.) They also plaster themselves
on highway billboards, advertisements, and magazine covers—apparently
to cover their bases and make sure everyone in America is looking at
them, willingly or not.
Is anyone else sick of these people?
Over
the last few weeks, it looks like the answer is finally “yes.” A large
segment of the population feels it has seen plenty of the
Kardashians, and, in fact, they would like to see less of them. When Kim
Kardashian flashed America with her nude photos, the response was more
“ew” than “ooh,” as if the audience felt somewhat violated. That’s
right: the Kardashians have long been stalking America, glaring back at
them from every TV set and magazine stand. Now they’ve crossed the line
into sexually harassing us. It was as if Americans collectively said,
“Kardashians, you have gone too far. We liked your show at first, but
now everyone feels uncomfortable and wants you to stop.”
But they’ve already demonstrated that they won't. In fact, they’ll just sink lower: days after Kim’s photos were released, Scott Disick was hospitalized after overdosing on drugs.
With all of the 24/7 security guards, TV cameras, and assistants around
them, you’d think the Kardashians would notice if someone was harboring
a secret addiction. That’s why we should assume that this was no
“secret,” and also no accident. It's another carefully staged subplot
directed by Kris. We already know Kris Jenner will sell her daughter’s
sex tapes and enter them into arranged marriages for attention. There’s
no reason to believe she wouldn’t happily kill off an expendable member
of the clan with a drug addiction if it meant more headlines. (By the
way, Lamar Odom, Khloe’s ex-husband, also developed a “drug addiction”
right before the couple split and he left the show.)
The
Kardashians aren’t just an attention-seeking, fun-loving reality show
family. They’re fame-obsessed and actually sort of evil. Now that
they’ve gotten their 15 minutes, America needs to say “time’s up!” and
drive them off the air.
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