Wednesday, July 16, 2008

I must get this off my chest.


Once upon a time, my therapist told me to read silly celebrity gossip blogs to make me laugh and divert my attention while having a panic attack. For the most part, they are poison. But, if you don't take them seriously, they can be funny. MK, the hilarious blogger over at DListed, is the funniest there is and not for the fainthearted. Pop Sugar brings you the news in a nice way.

A word to Perez Hilton: you have really gone too far. If one reads Perez's blog, each girl or woman is a "bitch", "slut" or "whore" - while the men on the blog can do no wrong. For example: Ethan Hawke, who began dating his and Uma Thurman's former nanny, Ryan Shawhughes, got her pregnant and married her. Yes, it's scandalous, but Mr. Hawke remains untouched by the poison digits of Perez. He calls Ms. Shawhughes, "dumb pregnant whore". In the past 24 hours, we've seen him call Khloe Kardashian "reality whore", "tranny" and "prison bitch", Rumer Willis is "potato head", Lindsay Lohan is "LezLo", Lauren Conrad is "beef curtains", Vanessa Hudgens (on vacation with Zac Efron) "that whore", Ashlee Simpson is "Asslee", Sienna Miller is "Sluttyenna" Miller, Miley Cyrus is a "slut", . When Nicole Kidman decided to have some class and NOT sell her baby's first picture, Perez calls her "rude" ponders, "is her baby photo even worth millions?". He speculates that a very pregnant Gwen Stefani's "huge belly" means she's having twins. Stefani looks like any woman in her final weeks of pregnancy; even better! Ugh, I could go on.

Only Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Salma Hayek, Cristian Ronaldo, Elton John ("Poppa Perez", ugh), Tori Amos and Paris Hilton are spared, basically, except for outed celebrities and "manly" men. And maybe Tom Cruise because he's scared the Scientologist will sue his ass.

I know that by blogging this, I've only drawn more attention to him, but Perez needs to know that celebs are people too and their foibles can be human. Instead of reporting about how Fidel Castro is really dead, he could highlight the silliness of celebrities without being so incredibly hateful. True, some of them are idiots, but no more than the average redneck hopped up on meth who does something moronic.

He does not ever ever disparage men (especially gay men) or those of Latin descent. He will fall all over himself to say something nice about some soccer player, Brad Pitt or the gosh darn Jonas Brothers.

As a gay man, Mr. Mario Lavandeira (his real name; you can guess the origins of his bloggedy name) needs to know that giving women proper respect is part of the culture. As a woman, a crime survivor, a blogger and a Latin American woman, I feel that he sums up the worst of our celebrity-smacking culture. About 50% of my closest friends are gay men and they would not dream of treating women as such. As a rape survivor, who knows all too well the way words like this are tossed around, I am shocked and really embarrassed for him. He has become terribly misogynistic. He's hurting people. Oh, and by drawing little semen squiggles on people's mouths, he shows his true colors. I don't care if Tori Amos things he's a genius.

He should stop preaching "Drugs are bad, kids!", "Suicide is never the answer, kids!" "insert incredibly obvious and grating advice here, kids!" - sweet jeebus, he's become a tired, preachy-ass queen. I think his much-promoted diet has made him all sorts of bitter. Perez, your job, as you described it, was to inform, enlighten and entertain. I wouldn't normally say this, but college students read his blog second only to Facebook.

He calls himself P-Nasty. That's appropriate.

1 comment:

MARIO said...

liz,

re perez hilton:

how do you spell M-Y-S-O-G-Y-N-Y?

mario

The surf off Main Beach, EH

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