So long, Paris..For years we've been paralyzed in the tractor beam of her brainless celebrity....

Salon ^ | Dec. 11, 2006 | Rebecca Traister

[GSlob]

"Clear them out of your life as the scandalous and evil-living lot they are"
Michelangelo Buonarroti

[Popocatapetl]

[jdm]

It was a picture of the young women walking hand-in-hand, Hilton in a T-shirt that read "I'm Paris Hilton, I can do whatever I want." Next to her, Spears wore a shirt reading, "I'm Paris Hilton, I can do whatever I want."

LOL! Now *that* is funny!

[scottdeus12]

"...summing up quite neatly Hilton's role as a "synonym for American materialism, bad manners, greed ... parochialism, arrogance, promiscuity, antifeminism, exposed roots and navels, entitlement, cell-phone addiction, anorexia and bulimia, predilection for gas-guzzling private transportation, pornified womanhood, exhibitionism, [and] narcissism."

Brutal. And quite true.

[jdm]

Does the Britney doll have a C-section scar, I wonder?

[RightWhale]

"I'm Paris Hilton, I can do whatever I want."

Does she want to solve diffferential equations and calculate trajectories to the ISS?

[KarlInOhio]

Hilton is like some kind of Dorian Gray cockroach. While her buddies waste away and collapse and see their careers flushed down the celebrity toilet after having been in her presence, she grows stronger:

That was beautiful. I have tears in my eyes.

[SF Republican]

But she is a good business woman. For whatever we think or like I understand she charges $50,000 for 20 minutes at a party or $100,000 for one hour. Now, raise your hands, who else here can do that? Not for better or worse, simply as a job?

[facedown]

Does the Britney doll have a C-section scar, I wonder?

Big time.

[TChris]

When Paris tore into Britney -- who, whatever inane decisions she has made, or been pushed into, during her decade in our pop culture consciousness, has retained an aura of pink-cheeked, creamy-bellied vulnerability -- she crossed a line.

Huh?

I think the word "vulnerable" quit applying to Britney about the time she quit appearing on The Mickey Mouse Club.

Paris and Britney are two peas in a pod, AFICT.

[jdm]

LOL

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Math is HARD!" ~ Barbie ;)

[finnman69]

The best part of House of Wax was Paris Hilton getting impaled through her empty head.

[r9etb]

The unpleasant truth: Paris Hilton is a symptom, not a cause. She's famous because normal people made her famous: the crapazines at the checkout counters don't make money just by sitting there -- people have to buy them first.

This is what happens when a nation gets rid of its moral underpinnings.

[scottdeus12]

"This is what happens when a nation gets rid of its moral underpinnings."

True.

[Enchante]

"For years we've been paralyzed in the tractor beam of her brainless celebrity."

No, Rebecca, you twit -- only vapid imbeciles like you have been "paralyzed in the tractor beam of her brainless celebrity" -- most of us could not care less and barely know who she is. Paris who? I thought that was the name of a large city just north of Vichy, France.....

[scottdeus12]

"I thought that was the name of a large city just north of Vichy, France....."

Really??? /sarc

[Arizona Carolyn]

I didn't think that was as bad as the picture of her arm around Britney's shoulder and her hand inside her dress on her breast.

[I see my hands]

To: Rebecca Traister

Your jealousy is showing.