I actually love Dr. Seuss...I grew up with his stories...But you know how the main character of that book continuously states, "I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam I Am."? Well, that's what I mean.
Mostly I want to unload a little steam about little miss perfect, Hilary Duff. I just don't like her. Something about her attitude or her music, or that stupid new fashion line of her's really erks me. My god, now she thinks she's a fashion designer?? Have you seen the clothes she's spitting out? They're just t-shirts and pants with her name plastered all over them! I could do that! That's not fashion design! That's having access to a silk-screening machine! The term itself implies that there's some kind of designing involved. Anyone can make a t-shirt! It's a t-shirt!! There's not a lot of thought involved there. And no doubt they've all been made in China by some poor little Chinese girl who was just beaten for losing a finger in one of the machines or something! What's wrong, Hil? Too busy with your "career" as a skanky pop star to actually have a hand in the production of your clothes?
Maybe that's unfair...I understand that if you're going to mass-produce something, that you'll have to hire on help. But GOD! All the little girls that are growing up today are growing up with "role models" like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, and now Hilary Duff. Doesn't anyone else see a trend here? They're all skinny, blonde, skanky pop stars that never actually sing. No, I'm sorry. I'll admit that Christina here actually has some talent, but could she look a little more like a hooker please? I don't think she's shown enough people what kind of a nasty skank she is. I don't like using words like "whore" because that would mean that these girls/women are selling their bodies to make money....but wait....isn't that what sells them? It's certainly not their music.
I'll admit that I sing along to the occasional Christina song, but as previously stated, she's the only one with any talent. Also, all of their songs sound the same! That's probably because they've all been written by the same 10 people.
God! Pop stars make me so mad! Here I am working my ass off to go to school and learn how to sing, understand the basic workings of music and compose properly, while all they need is a nice body and be able to vaguely carry a tune! None of them are original. They all look and sound the same, and that bothers me. It's the cookie cutter industry of Pop Divas! God forbid that a heavy-set girl/woman try and make it as a singer....Can't ruin the positive image of the perfect size 2 girl, can we? I even saw an article once that put down Christina Aguilera for having the tiniest amount of pudge around her belly. I mean, they had to do an extreme close-up of her belly for anyone to even see it. Christ! No wonder there are Pro-Eating Disorder sites out there! No wonder women see themselves as gigantic whales. I can't say that I've been immune to this kind of thinking myself, as I am a heavy-set person, in fact, the only heavy female in my immediate family. And this kind of blatant slamming of anyone who doesn't look like a friggin model really makes me mad.
When I still worked at Winners, I was putting away some clothes in the "Junior Trendsetters" area (meaning, basically, clothes for the Britney/Christina/Hilary wannabes, ages 10 through 40) and there were these girls shopping there. That was all fine and good. Then they started looking through the pants, starting at size 0 (Yes, Winners carries size 0 on occasion) and worked her way through. When she got to size 11...SIZE ELEVEN, she said, in a voice that would carry at least through the Junior Trendsetters area, "And these are all the fat people pants!" I was only standing like 6 or 7 feet away from them too. Do you know what I would pay to be able to fit into size 11 pants?? That was a completely rude and ignorant thing to say, not to mention that after she said it she didn't even have the after-thought to look around to see if there was a quote-unquote "fat person" around who might have heard it.
I would like to end this on a happier note, so I'd like to say that I get to wear jeans to work again on Wednesday! Ah, simple pleasures...Without you I would have long ago died of some kind of stress disorder...
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