Pardon? Get out of the house much? Are you basing this on your experience with actual young women, or have you seen one too many Girls Gone Wild commercials?
Paris Hilton is a thoroughly vile human being and I don’t feel the slightest sympathy for her. She is not, however, a harbinger of the apocalypse. A tiny bit of perspective is in order, here.
As would I…I figured it was kind of a given.
I’d hit it, too.
Preferably while driving a UPS truck.
Remind me not to drive through State College.
Let’s see…
-gaining fame through a sex tape with an asshole
-filming herself saying ‘nigger,’ ‘chink,’ etc.
-repeatedly going sans underwear when she knows she’ll be photographed
-driving drunk
-breaking the law
-breaking the law
-inability to act
I’d say only 2/7 of those are even sexual.
Listen, I love ‘sluts.’ Always have. I defended them throughout high school and have always been supportive of a woman’s right to be just as promiscuous as a man. But Paris is a different kind of slut, and it’s got little to do with what’s between her legs (the mouth of an old man desperately searching for his dentures, by the looks of things). She’ll shill for anything.
r4nd0mNumb3rs’s experience is similar to my own, and yes, I know many young women. I even occasionally get out of the house. 
agree- go to any college bar on a weekend night.
I must admit to feeling some schadenfreude upon hearing that Paris was going to jail. I’m not even sure what it is about her that bugs me. I can’t just be that she’s rich, famous and promiscuous – at least, those traits don’t seem to bother me much in any of the other numerous celebrities who match that description. And I hadn’t followed her closely enough to know about some of the racial slurs mentioned earlier in the thread.
More than anything, I think she just comes across as incredibly full of herself, and for absolutely no reason. She’s just the epitome of shamelessness.
As to her looks, rating female celebs “hotness” makes me feel kind of sexist, but I will say I can’t see what she has going for her other than being blonde and thin. Apparently that and a salacious home movie is all that it takes to become a “sex symbol” these days.
The part of this that has me rolling my eyes is that you limited it to women. I don’t doubt that if you frequent a certain kind of club/bar/party you’ll see plenty of this sort of thing every weekend (especially in a big college town like yours) but so far as I can tell from my limited experience with that whole scene, the boys are just as bad as the girls.
Plus to act like this is somehow a representative sample of American 20-something women is ludicrous. Go to a frat party on a Saturday night, and big surprise, you’ll find people acting like they’re at a frat party. Go to a library and you’ll find – well, probably a bunch of nerds, but you see my point.
And yeah, the frat party is probably more crowded than the library, but there’s also a lot of people who aren’t at either. I also want to add that 20s probably means more like 18-22 . . . in my experience even most of the people who were serious partiers in college were starting to get burned out on that sort of thing by the time they graduated.
Man, that was some classic pwnage!
I don’t rate Paris at all - I fail to see how she is considered attractive - and I didn’t like Sarah Silverman until her show aired. Up until then I thought her schtick was annoying and unfunny, but her show is pretty f***in’ hilarious.
Maybe Paris will think about the downside of famewhoring, and how it sucks to be the butt of a joke the next time she films a sex video, or shares her inane vision of the world with us. Her career is essentially her being famous for being famous. If she had some skills to fall back on, one could always say, “Well, at least she has some talent in this area.” If you’re simply a vapid presence, the winds of public opinion are bound to turn against you at some point.
At least Lindsay Lohan can “act” and “sing” a little.
Oh, and another thing… maybe it wasn’t a great idea to show up at the MTV awards if you didn’t want to draw attention to yourself. She could have staged a photo op at a church or something the day before she went to jail.
What an absolutely ridiculous assertion. Pray tell, I’d love a cite for any of these in AJ’s past:
Sure, she did a couple kooky/kinky things with Billy Bob, but nothing in the same stratosphere of useless, gratuitous self-promotion.
Sloppy seconds…ticklish thirds…what’s 124th?
Paris-Would Not Hit.
Sarah-Would Hit.
A Paris Hilton joke? Man, she really pushed the envelope there.
And this is how they do it.
Link is to a fairly tame video with sound.
No No No, you are exactly right, I did not mean it that way, the comparison was strictly to the partying and the sex- AJ was known as a bit of a wildcat, but of course AJ has always been smart, funny, talented, no wild self-promotion, and never in trouble with the law.
Paris Hilton is 26 years old.
When she was 26, Angelina Jolie’s Oscar had already been sitting on her mantle for a year, right next to her three Golden Globes. She had already appeared in 21 major feature films. She also began her work with the UNHCR when she was 26, and before her 27th birthday had donated $1 million of her own money to Afghan refugees, conducted field visits to Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, and Cambodia, and was named a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.
I don’t like Hilton’s chances at being the next Angelina Jolie.
DianaG, do you get out of the house much?
I admit my sample may not represent all young women (since Penn State is considered a ‘party school’), but Paris Hilton-esque behavior is very far from uncommon in State College at least and I think many parents are startingly naive about what their kids are exactly doing on the weekends when they ship em off to college. I’m not claiming the majority of girls in college act like this but getting shitfaced, having sex with a stranger, then driving home will not raise an eyebrow in many circles. This is not a baseless assumption, I’ve talked to enough girls with this sort of attitude to realize that it’s how many girls have fun on the weekends.
I don’t think a lot of men are looking at Paris Hilton as a role model or a yardstick for acceptable behavior. If we were talking about some douchebag male “celebrity” that acted like her, I don’t think I would have many kind words for him either. But we’re not.
Well, *that’s * big of you.
Seriously, the behavior you describe? You may choose to call it “Hiltonesque”, but prior to 2003 or so, we simply called it “stupid fucking sorority chicks :rolleyes:” (the rolleyes being for them, not you). It’s a tiny subset of humanity, which I respectfully submit that you may notice disprortionately due to both your location and the fact that bad behavior often monopolizes our attention. Get off campus once in a while, and even if it’s just to the nearest bar, take a moment to notice the many, many women who are NOT attracting your eye by behaving like fools.
I used to be convinced that Paris Hilton was a lot smarter than she presented herself, and that she had created a dumb-blonde character as part of a financial strategy to gain celebrity, and the money that goes with it. After all, a family like hers would make sure that their daughter was well educated, and that she understood what it is to be in the public eye, to manage an image, to keep and grow a fortune. I found her act entertaining, and thought I was joining her in a private laugh at the gullibility of the rest of the world.
But I don’t think that anymore.
And for the record… I wouldn’t hit it. I wouldn’t touch it. I wish I could say I’d never seen it, and if bleach and a brillo pad could scrub the searing memory of it out of my mind, I’d be scrubbing right now.