Dammit, you're smarter than her, sitting there in your den with your diploma on the wall behind you, your mouse crowding the stacks of unpaid bills on your desk, your fat thighs making the office chair squeak when you shift your weight. Those unfortunate but real boobs and asymmetrical features... your lost youth... your bratty kids and inattentive spouse...
"Carrie Prejean should pay for what she said!"
First of all, let me say that I have no problem with Carrie Prejean answering Perez Hilton's question as she did. She wasn't terribly eloquent, but then, we don't necessarily expect eloquence from beauty pageant contestants. What we expect is the ability to successfully pageant-walk in heels and a bikini. Don't ask for more. In my book, Prejean gets big points for honesty. But then, I am not Judge #8.
Perez Hilton's response, on the other hand, was at least AS inarticulate as her honest answer to his loaded question. In fact, his unwitty retort probably did more harm to gay rights than her widely publicized, asked-for opinion. But then, he's as much of an opportunist as any publicity-hungry blogger, so can you blame him?
Wait... I'm a publicity-hungry blogger. If I call him a catty bitch and a c**t, can I be on TV?
(I should add here that I support gay marriage. Homosexuals have a right to be miserable, too. Oh, snap!)
Carrie Prejean is a dumbass, yes, but she's certainly entitled to her opinion. Being a contestant in a beauty pageant does not require MENSA membership. This is simply a fact. One organization holds physical beauty in the highest regard, while the other sees the intellect as the ultimate measurement of one's value as a person. (They're both wrong, of course, but that's a subject for another day.)
Today, Carrie Prejean thanked the Miss CA organization for empowering women to make a difference in the world. If she meant "Thank you for buying me new boobs and giving me an opportunity to be heard by millions of people even though I'm really just a dim-witted girl happy to exploit myself for fame and fortune..." then she is right.
She said a number of other really funny things, including claiming that some of the latest topless photos that are surfacing were due to a wardrobe malfunction caused by the wind. Are you kidding? Really?
And that brings us to the real question. Why DO people seem to hate her? You may say that you hate her because you think she is a homophobe, having said that "opposite marriage" is the only real marriage. You may say you hate her because you think she is a hypocrite, having posed for nude photos while claiming to be a Christian.
The real reason you hate her is because she is beautiful. The Donald basically stated this many times during the press conference, and he's dead-on. Yes, she's stupid. Yes, she's superficial. Yes, she's a hypocrite and a liar and a bigot. But it's very likely that she's prettier than you are (in all the most superficial ways), more famous than you are (and if not, drop me a line. Can we be friends?) and in your mind (and mine) she does not deserve it.
How dare she. I'm smarter than her, relatively easy on the eyes (relative to Perez Hilton, I mean. He's such a catty bitch and a c**t), and I have all the right opinions about everything from gay marriage (sure, why not) to the best ice cream flavor (vanilla, of course.) Why is she famous and not me? Hell, why are either of those idiots famous? Two sides of the same coin if you ask me.
During the press conference, Trump basically said "It's okay to lie... this is the 21st century!" but seriously, why would he want to separate the most talked about airhead on the planet from his organization? When was he supposed to have become a poster boy for doing the right thing? He's the poster boy for making money. Self-interest and self-promotion, and he's got a right to do that, too.
In a funny way, I actually respected the way Trump spoke. He didn't pretend that there was nobility in anything that he or the pageant was doing. He came right out and said that this was great business, and added toward the end that they loved the controversy created by the question "Judge #8" posed, and he hoped for more controversy in the future. Hell yeah, he's a businessman!
If today's "press conference" did anything, it highlighted the superficial vacuousness of everyone involved in beauty pageants. It also showed how hungry cable news is for controversy. MSNBC often cuts away from important press conferences once you get the gist of what is happening. This time they showed the travesty in its entirety. I'm an MSNBC Addict, and I nearly changed the channel.
I guess my point is that you should not be pretending to be so up in arms about Prejean's opinion on gay marriage, or the fact that she has a handful of nude photos in her past. Be honest. You hate her for the same reason I hate her; she's ridiculously famous solely because of a random confluence of genes, a question posed by a catty bitch of a blogger, and a brand new set of boobs.
