Paris: Victim
Jules Crittenden has a good post up about Paris Hilton. Jules writes:
I feel bad for her. How can you look at anyone piteously sobbing on her way to jail and not feel bad for her, when her crime is not sticking a knife in someone, raping someone’s grandmother, holding anyone up at gunpoint or stealing their life’s savings, but essentially failing to figure out that the rules apply to her.
That is exactly how I feel about it as well. I actually feel bad for Paris, I’ve got to admit it.
To her parents: j’accuse!.
This young woman was raised with the idea that the rules do not apply to her. This girl was raised with the idea that money can buy everything. This girl (she’s older than me, but she’s not a woman) was raised with the idea that there is nothing wrong with being stupid and ignorant.
The Media love her. They fall all over themselves making photos of her, trying to get her to say a few words, etc. When she goes somewhere, young girls, escorted by their parents, run up to her, trying to get her signature.
For what? What did she accomplish? What great things did she do (except for starring in a couple of hot videos)?
The answer is, of course, nothing. She accomplished absolutely nothing. I quoted Comments from Left Field recently about this matter:
To me, the greatest sin of Paris is that she contributes nothing. She is part of the new vogue to be willingly ignorant. She embodies cool dumbness as easily as she does irresponsibility and gets away with it time and again, and while we sadly chuckle her off and shake our heads, our daughters are learning.
Okay, rant over.
I’m thinking… Pussy(cat) behind bars?
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A Victim? Hardly!
The Paris Hilton saga has become so compelling that many political bloggers who swore off mentioning her have weighed in on the topic, including myself. Hilton got hauled off screaming and crying to jail after having been released by Los…
Pity? Well, maybe a little teensy bit…possibly…probably not. There are good reasons not to pity her:
1. She hasn’t earned anything from anyone or ever shown she gave a damn about anyone but herself, therefore she also hasn’t earned pity.
2. Personal responsibility, something I understand most conservatives (and believe it or not many liberals) are big on. “Poor thing, she never had a chance” rarely washes with me. Once you are an adult, it’s your responsibility to realize that there are, indeed, limits.
3. There are probably a good 5.4 billion people, say, that deserve more pity than Paris Hilton. Say the millions of children forced into hard labor, war or sexual exploitation. Or the millions of refugees of war and hunger. Or something closer. How about a responsible young woman, who is underpaid and overworked, who followed all the rules but must struggle because she wasn’t born with a silver spoon up her…
4. The thousands of men women and children who die, or are permanently maimed, each year all over the world by drunk drivers. She could have easily killed someone. It’s not my problem if you want to quietly self-destruct somewhere, but you can’t take someone with you.
Why isn’t there such a thing as actionable parental malpractice?
I may be sympathetic to the pain anyone is going through but I don’t pity her. We all have issues our families gave us. She’s not a child anymore, she’s had ample opportunity to learn how to take responsibility for her actions. Maybe she needs this experience to grow up a little.
At least she’s still alive. The Kennedys act as if the rules of the world don’t apply to them with sometimes fatal results.
She’s going to jail (and should) because she could have killed somebody with her vehicle. Period.
Feel sorry for the kids doing 25 years for possession under the Rockefeller drug laws, not for little Paris’s measly 45 days. Gimme a break.