Did you know that yesterday
was “National Coffee Day,” and that instead of drinking a cup of java to honor the day,
talentless but business-wise actress Sofia Vergara went fully nude with a photo
on her Instagram account to celebrate the day?
I don’t know what showing off your birthday suit has to do with coffee—and since I don’t have an Instagram account and have never been on the site, I cannot see the photo—but that’s what she did to celebrate the day.
I don’t get it, but honestly, I think I do.
Exposure, figuratively and literally, is good for these supposedly over-the-hill, aging actresses, to demonstrate to the world that in a culture that emphatically states that we honor our older citizens but doesn’t, that we should all be amazed at how wonderful these women look, at "advanced" ages of them being in their 40s and 50s.
And ladies, I am going to put the blame firmly on you this time.
This is not some leering guy getting his rocks off by staring at the centerfolds in the old Playboy Magazine.
These are women who try to keep in the public eye by showing off their bodies, and these bodies—both real and enhanced and air-brushed—are being seen by young, impressionable women who then look at themselves and say, “Why can’t I look like that?”
As much as Hollywood is into the MeToo movement and as much as many actresses bemoan the fact that people are actually looking at them from top to bottom as sex objects, there are many in Tinseltown who want you to do just that, and it is making a lot of young ladies crazy, crazy enough to go over the deep end.
There have been recent hearings on how sites like Instagram and Facebook are befuddling these young minds, minds that cannot yet discern between the fantasy of surgically enhanced and artistically airbrushed figure and the real world.
It puts the weaker youngsters in a personal quagmire, because these young ladies really take these actresses and what they are showing off to heart, and it makes them crazy.
And while Hollywood on the whole bemoans this behavior, those that show themselves off like this take absolutely no responsibility for their actions.
They believe that any publicity—even if it shows off their obviously surgically enhanced faces and figures—is good publicity, but I don’t see the likes of Vergara and Elizabeth Hurley and the like rejuvenating their careers by posing in every which way.
Sorry ladies, men simply do not have this problem.
I don’t know a single guy who looks at the most handsome of today’s male actors and believes, “I need to look like him … why don’t I?” and then fall of a cliff because they can’t and don’t live up to the actor’s level of handsomeness.
This is a strictly female problem, and no matter how up to date we make the Barbie doll to look like a normal woman, and not one with a 40-20-32 figure or whatever the standard Barbie doll shows off, women have a tendency to compare themselves to other women where men have absolutely no need to do this.
And, of course, the Internet just makes this so much worse.
In the old days, if an over-the-hill actress wanted to show off her figure to the world—and it probably wasn’t that enhanced because plastic surgery wasn’t the norm way back when—they could do that in newspaper columns like Earl Wilson’s celebrity column, where the breast-obsessed Wilson would describe an actress popping out of her skin-tight outfit but would rarely include the photo in his mention.
Or an actress could go to the next level, taking it all off for Playboy, but those air-brushed gems usually showed off an actress who was really desperate to be discovered again, and the ploy rarely worked, because only men were looking at this stuff, not women.
But today, we have the Internet, and you can see what you want when you want to see it, and these actresses darn well know that, and that is why they do the things they do.
It is narcissism at its worst, and it is also completely irresponsible, but if Britney Spears or any other aging Hollywood celebrities want to show off their greatly enhanced figures to the world, well, people are going to look, including 13 and 14-year-old girls who don’t understand why these women are doing this, and taking it to heart.
I guess it all boils down to God’s greatest creation—the female form—being so much more interesting than the male form that both men and women admire those that have really used God’s physical gifts to their advantage.
And in this day and age, where just about everything goes, the female form follows suit, and few blink an eye when one of these actresses decides it is time to show the world how “healthy” she is.
And how sad that really is.
Sure, I look too, but isn’t a woman at her sexiest when she doesn’t show off everything she’s got to the world?
Even this leering eye believes that is true.
I have an early appointment on Monday morning, so I will not be at my usual perch on that day.
Thus, I will speak to you next on Tuesday of next week.
Have a great weekend.
I don’t know what showing off your birthday suit has to do with coffee—and since I don’t have an Instagram account and have never been on the site, I cannot see the photo—but that’s what she did to celebrate the day.
I don’t get it, but honestly, I think I do.
Exposure, figuratively and literally, is good for these supposedly over-the-hill, aging actresses, to demonstrate to the world that in a culture that emphatically states that we honor our older citizens but doesn’t, that we should all be amazed at how wonderful these women look, at "advanced" ages of them being in their 40s and 50s.
And ladies, I am going to put the blame firmly on you this time.
This is not some leering guy getting his rocks off by staring at the centerfolds in the old Playboy Magazine.
These are women who try to keep in the public eye by showing off their bodies, and these bodies—both real and enhanced and air-brushed—are being seen by young, impressionable women who then look at themselves and say, “Why can’t I look like that?”
As much as Hollywood is into the MeToo movement and as much as many actresses bemoan the fact that people are actually looking at them from top to bottom as sex objects, there are many in Tinseltown who want you to do just that, and it is making a lot of young ladies crazy, crazy enough to go over the deep end.
There have been recent hearings on how sites like Instagram and Facebook are befuddling these young minds, minds that cannot yet discern between the fantasy of surgically enhanced and artistically airbrushed figure and the real world.
It puts the weaker youngsters in a personal quagmire, because these young ladies really take these actresses and what they are showing off to heart, and it makes them crazy.
And while Hollywood on the whole bemoans this behavior, those that show themselves off like this take absolutely no responsibility for their actions.
They believe that any publicity—even if it shows off their obviously surgically enhanced faces and figures—is good publicity, but I don’t see the likes of Vergara and Elizabeth Hurley and the like rejuvenating their careers by posing in every which way.
Sorry ladies, men simply do not have this problem.
I don’t know a single guy who looks at the most handsome of today’s male actors and believes, “I need to look like him … why don’t I?” and then fall of a cliff because they can’t and don’t live up to the actor’s level of handsomeness.
This is a strictly female problem, and no matter how up to date we make the Barbie doll to look like a normal woman, and not one with a 40-20-32 figure or whatever the standard Barbie doll shows off, women have a tendency to compare themselves to other women where men have absolutely no need to do this.
And, of course, the Internet just makes this so much worse.
In the old days, if an over-the-hill actress wanted to show off her figure to the world—and it probably wasn’t that enhanced because plastic surgery wasn’t the norm way back when—they could do that in newspaper columns like Earl Wilson’s celebrity column, where the breast-obsessed Wilson would describe an actress popping out of her skin-tight outfit but would rarely include the photo in his mention.
Or an actress could go to the next level, taking it all off for Playboy, but those air-brushed gems usually showed off an actress who was really desperate to be discovered again, and the ploy rarely worked, because only men were looking at this stuff, not women.
But today, we have the Internet, and you can see what you want when you want to see it, and these actresses darn well know that, and that is why they do the things they do.
It is narcissism at its worst, and it is also completely irresponsible, but if Britney Spears or any other aging Hollywood celebrities want to show off their greatly enhanced figures to the world, well, people are going to look, including 13 and 14-year-old girls who don’t understand why these women are doing this, and taking it to heart.
I guess it all boils down to God’s greatest creation—the female form—being so much more interesting than the male form that both men and women admire those that have really used God’s physical gifts to their advantage.
And in this day and age, where just about everything goes, the female form follows suit, and few blink an eye when one of these actresses decides it is time to show the world how “healthy” she is.
And how sad that really is.
Sure, I look too, but isn’t a woman at her sexiest when she doesn’t show off everything she’s got to the world?
Even this leering eye believes that is true.
I have an early appointment on Monday morning, so I will not be at my usual perch on that day.
Thus, I will speak to you next on Tuesday of next week.
Have a great weekend.
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