Celebrity Worship
Today the professor of my Chaucer class asked an interesting question. She queried the women of the class about who they enjoy fantasizing about. And out of all the men in the world, only two names came up: Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom.
My question is: why?
I know that I might seem like a jealous man, but I really don't understand all of the craze about fantasizing about celebrities. Sure, they might be "The Beautiful People," but like Hollywood itself, they are fake. I don't mean to say that Brad and Orlando are fake people; they are as real and as human as I am, and they suffer in their own ways, as I do. But the images of Brad and Orlando are indeed fake. The men and women of the silver screen hire expensive cosmetic experts to make them seem more beautiful than reality. Actors and actresses, along with other celebrities, are unattainable by regular humans such as you or me. Is it this unattainability that makes them worthy of fantasies? If the women of my class actually knew these men, would they continue to fantasize about them? I don't think so...at least not in the fashion that they currently do.
Yes, celebrities are beautiful people (in general), but they are no more beautiful than average human beings in my opinion. They just have the money to hire cosmologists and personal trainers. And there is no doubt that their looks are bolstered by digitalized lighting techniques in the films that they act in. They have more of an appearance of beauty rather than actually being beautiful. Appearance seems to be more appreciated in our society. And even though there might be some actors and actresses who actually are beautiful, the public could care less. They have placed the appearance of these celebrities upon pedestals and worshipped their appearance over who these people actually are.
Give me a natural-looking, intelligent woman any day over those overpaid Barbie dolls of Hollywood.
As for me, I'd rather fantasize about someone I know. Someone who is attainable. Someone that I could appreciate for more than appearance.
So my message to the women of the class is that they should fantasize about men that they could actually meet in real life. Namely me! (Hehehe. I'm kidding.....or am I?)
My question is: why?
I know that I might seem like a jealous man, but I really don't understand all of the craze about fantasizing about celebrities. Sure, they might be "The Beautiful People," but like Hollywood itself, they are fake. I don't mean to say that Brad and Orlando are fake people; they are as real and as human as I am, and they suffer in their own ways, as I do. But the images of Brad and Orlando are indeed fake. The men and women of the silver screen hire expensive cosmetic experts to make them seem more beautiful than reality. Actors and actresses, along with other celebrities, are unattainable by regular humans such as you or me. Is it this unattainability that makes them worthy of fantasies? If the women of my class actually knew these men, would they continue to fantasize about them? I don't think so...at least not in the fashion that they currently do.
Yes, celebrities are beautiful people (in general), but they are no more beautiful than average human beings in my opinion. They just have the money to hire cosmologists and personal trainers. And there is no doubt that their looks are bolstered by digitalized lighting techniques in the films that they act in. They have more of an appearance of beauty rather than actually being beautiful. Appearance seems to be more appreciated in our society. And even though there might be some actors and actresses who actually are beautiful, the public could care less. They have placed the appearance of these celebrities upon pedestals and worshipped their appearance over who these people actually are.
Give me a natural-looking, intelligent woman any day over those overpaid Barbie dolls of Hollywood.
As for me, I'd rather fantasize about someone I know. Someone who is attainable. Someone that I could appreciate for more than appearance.
So my message to the women of the class is that they should fantasize about men that they could actually meet in real life. Namely me! (Hehehe. I'm kidding.....or am I?)
Like attracts like: fake attracts fake.
Posted by
anonymous jones |
9:21 PM
I like that saying. Did you make that up, or did you read it or hear it from elsewhere?
Posted by
Chauntecleer |
9:44 PM
Like attracts like is a saying; I just gave an example.
Posted by
anonymous jones |
8:33 PM
Aesthros? What the ..?
Posted by
anonymous jones |
8:35 PM
"Aesthros" is the name of one of the characters in a story that I wrote. I'm wishing to be just a bit more anonymous now. You understand that, anonymous jones!
Posted by
Chauntecleer |
8:48 PM