There seems to be some hostility towards Kim Kardashian. That's ok. That's good. (I'll explain why.) But let's rein it in, people. Let's enjoy being pissed off at her constructively, as is appropriate and intended. Let's not take it over the line.
What did Kim do? She put up a sham of a marriage and made a bunch of money off of it. She played on all of our dreams and fantasies about true love and hope. She shattered our image of her living happily ever after. What she did was completely duplicitous and underhanded. But was it inappropriate. I say thee nay!
Who is Kim Kardashian? What is her job? What does she do for society? Before you say, 'nothing' and get your rimshot, really think about it. Kim Kardashian plays a very key role in our society. She has an important job and she does it well. She is paid for her work handsomely and she deserves every penny. What's that you say, Am I crazy? No, I am not crazy... I am simply taking a moment to look at the truth of the situation.
Kim's job is to entertain us. She is to take our attention and focus away from the humdrum existence of life and direct it towards lighthearted frivolity. She gives us a conversation piece that everyone can relate to and provides fodder for our jokes and our complaints. She has masterfully worked her entire family into the gig and taken it from a small-time, single entity show into an entire dynasty. Her appearance, her persona, the people who surround her and her family, the entire shebang is one big, giant...ready for this....wait for it...wait for it...TV SHOW. Yes, that is what the Kardashian's are...a TV show. I'm not saying they HAVE a tv show, though they do...several, in fact. No, their entire existence is a TV show, on par with other tv shows like Grey's Anatomy, Terra Nova or Family Guy. The difference is that, their gimmick is not great surgeons, living dinosaurs or animated hilarity...it's REALITY. Their show is 'real.' This takes our relationship to the next level. No one pretends that Terra Nova is real, so, there is no logic or sense to following the dinosaurs around every day and seeing what they are doing. But that's what we do with the Kardashians.
Now, given that they are a group of hard working entertainment professionals trying to keep us involved and engaged, they can't just sit on their asses or go through the motions. Any tv pro will tell you that that is a quick walk off a short pier to cancellation. No, they have to try new things, introduce new plots, reinvent themselves and keep pushing forward. The longer they do this, the harder it will become to appear fresh, new and outrageous (Watched 'South Park' lately?) So they are going to cross lines and push the envelope. But they don't just randomly introduce a handsome new doctor, or a bigger dinosaur or 34 new sexual positions for Quagmire. They have to do something 'real.'
Can you blame them? I mean, would you keep buying Tide if they didn't add a fresh scent?Hershey's doesn't just make the same old Reese's cups...they try BIG cups, full nut cups, dark chocolate cups, all sorts of things. Adam Sandler doesn't just keep making the same movie over and over...ok, bad example. But you get my point...They need to keep going over the top.
Now, the wedding. What a great idea for an episode? They met in 2010 and were married in August 2011. Yeah, THAT seems real. They turned every aspect of their relationship and public nuptials into a transparent exercise, unlike every other celebrity couple in existence. They barely talked to each other the whole time. Follow it closely, you'll see. Oh, it was easy to assume and imagine these deep and meaningful conversations about their hopes and dreams occurring somewhere off camera, in the middle of the night. I'm sure she stayed up til 4 am chatting with him when he was on the road last season...only to emerge 3 hours later for a trip to the gym, looking as fresh as a daisy, dressed like God's own porn star, gorgeous from head to toe.
There's suspension of disbelief and there's just plain gullibility. Look...glasses, Clark Kent...no glasses, Superman...glasses, Clark Kent...no glasses Superman. I'll buy that but I always knew in the back of my mind, that this was all bullshit. I mean, the stripper is right there on your lap, boobs pushing up your chin, gazing with readily apparent and barely controlled lust into your eyes...and you still know...in your cold, hard mind (no, the other 'hard' mind)...that it's bullshit that goes away the minute the money dries up. No one, no matter how badly they want to be, gets THAT fooled. You just don't.
We knew what was happening as it happened. We knew that she didn't really love him and this really wasn't a fairy tale. It was fun to watch. It was a nice dress (with nicer boobs). It was a hilarious party. And it was a blast to point out that they had $400 THOUSAND worth of free champagne when, at our weddings, we had to pay the last $4 of the $50, the dj wanted for another hour, in change. ("C'mon guys, we need 65 more cents!") It was fun and we enjoyed it.
Now, it's over. and we are pissed off. I've heard everything from the sarcastic expression that love doesn't work to the paraphrasing of the great Malcolm X as applied to her actions. Really, guys? She 'hoodwinked' us? She 'bamboozled' us? Seriously? "How could she do such a thing!?"
This, too, is fun. And we enjoy it.
But the suggestions of cancelled work. Pulled sponsers. Prosecution!?!! Let's rein it in. After all, she's just doing her job. And she's doing it, damn well...
