Wasting your life on Kim Kardashian and fashion

[imshippyupup]

I respectfully disagree about fashion. It is full of beautiful freaks and defended mainly by women. The grotesque and the chic collide, split apart, and recombine in fantastic ways. The problems it has exist because of industry, where commodification is inherent, not with fashion itself. This distinction is important so we can tease apart the corrupting systems from the creativity.

[tintiringa]

Why do you have a tattoo on your boob? Fashion?

Was it a good use of money?

[astrgd27]

The most interesting part of your video for me was the class analysis, and how consumer goods are often a sign of status and a way to stratify populations. But I didn't feel that you went into enough depth into it, and the out of context viewing of a scene from The Devil Wears Prada also hurts your overall point.

[astrgd27]

Making Youtube videos is also a waste of time. You could have spent that time volunteering at the local homeless shelter or cleaning up litter.

Everyone has time wasters and things they do just for fun. It isn't really an argument against them to say that their time could be better spent on something else, as that applies to almost everything we do.

[zacthebold]

My thoughts exactly. SUBSCRIBED.

[bismarket]

A book? Are you mad, seriously i've heard some fundies claim that books are bad & "The ONLY book I need is the BIBLE" It's great to see kids starting to get back into reading again, the Harry Potter & His Dark Materials series were at the forefront of this resurgence yet are exactly the books the fundies would love to see banned. I have no webcam but i think this is a topic that needs addressing, think about it? Bye;-)

[bismarket]

No hate, just a thought. If you had omitted the "Wasting your life" part out of the title, more of this vid's viewers may have been the people you aiming it at, otherwise you risk preaching to the choir. I've noticed this before with your vids (Which are great BTW). I do like the latest title though "Umbrellas";-)

[1stSilence]

why do people buy the fastest computer they can get to play rather limited 1st person shooters instead of joining their computers in worldcommunitygrid to solve some problems relevant to us all?

[trackleft1]

Really, your argument (yes, I know it's just a rant) is part of the problem, because it confuses the ignorant. There is nothing wrong with having an expensive hobby, like fashion and celebrity watching. The problem is the ignorance that a lot of people have about the injustice in the world and how their hobby may or may not contribute to it. I know some VERY charitable people that love fashion, and buy clothes that I would consider expensive.

[trackleft1]

jealous?

[dgeypscun]

Fashion is just ONE of the thousands of things that humans take waaaaay to seriously. Hollywood is not to completely to blame. A quick look at fashion through the ages shows that addiction to fab frockery has been around forever. The difference is that it is now more consumable by people who aren't rich or royal.

[GodofVengence]

Shoes are worth spending more than $30

[Kylefadness]

I...think....I... Love you?

[TheWeakHuman]

You made a piercing on your nose?O_O



[gobbo241]

My partner says she reads those magazines to actually stop thinking after too much uni. Unfortunately she likes that stupid movie, cool to see someone say what I think about it too. The problem is people are not able to think rationally all the time. If we loved and cared about everyone and everything the world might be a better place, but most of us are too selfish and fearful.

[MrQuandoaroma]

@gobbo241: Gobbo, your partner makes a valid point. I have a degree in English Literature, I'm a part-time writer of fiction and poetry, and I'm well tuned in to what's going on in the world. Yet, sometimes I like to just chill out and check out "People" magazine, or whatever, and not think too much. :-)

[gobbo241]

@MrQuandoaroma yeah I understand, the thing is you obviously know the context of the magazine and I assume you are able to not let the superficial bullshit influence you. Not everyone is able to do this and take they take the content too seriously.

[MrQuandoaroma]

@gobbo241: capito, Gobbo> However, I am shallow enough to notice that Kim K. has an incredible ass... :-)

[ButterflyChristie]

I LOVE fashion, but a completely agree with everything you said, and I'm not considered fashionable by many because I don't fit inside their view of norm, when fashion should be about self expression, and not mindlessly following trends. People shouldn't be dependent on it either. Many fashion companies are corrupt, and those thing are what they want people think like, since they make more profit when more people buy more of just a few types of clothing, and they are easy to make.

[logicbloke]

I love Kim Kardashian. She is so like so pretty and like she has pretty hair like, so like, pretty clothes and like pretty nails , she is so cute like, like ... like and like yeah.

[mdh65120]

The end of Grease actually has the same message. The guy tries to change for her, attempting various sports to get her attention, but in the end she comes out in trampy leather, smoking and making it very clear that she's available in every way possible. Even as teen, I thought that was a terrible message to young girls. If you want to keep your guy, tramp up and throw away all your personal values for a man.

[gaglamesh731]

I honestly wish there were more women like you. I have no sense of this "fashion" thing whatsoever. I swear , I'd sooner make sense of Klingon.

[FearBlandness]

Please ignore the fact that I didn't watch 'The Devil Wears Prada' to the end. I was simply using it as an example to further illustrate my point.

[FATMIKED5183]

@FearBlandness Sure...

[MrQuandoaroma]

P.s. I will add, though, that it's a shame more people don't pay as much attention to politics and the truly important national and global issues of the day, instead of living vicariously through such inanity. One doesn't have to be a genius to understand what's going on in the world; one just needs to pay a little attention and stay away from the meaningless "cult of celebrity crap for a while. We have an infinite amount of information at our fingertips, yet we're, collectively, less informed.

[MrQuandoaroma]

I'm not sure anger is the appropriate response here; to be sure, it's all very shallow, and I'm as tired of hearing about people who are famous for being famous, as well. However, in light of their shallowness and meaninglessness, they don't deserve such emotions. What is amazing, though, is how our society seems to casually accept the whole "sex tape" phenomenon and continues to give some of these pigs any attention at all. I wonder how their parents feel? Disgusted, I hope.

[jonny7748]

It's not elitest, that is what they do. You gave it critical thought, and that is intellectual. The whole show is one idiot joy ride of fads and flaws in human character.

[lazygorillas]

the irony is that the elitists are the ones who care about fashion

[Kalevala87]

When did common sense become elitist anyway?

[COEXISTential]

@Kalevala87 When it became uncommon.



[JMKRATOCHVIL]

I don't think you watched the whole movie. If you had, I think you would have mentioned the ending. I don't disagree with you at all on your main theme.. however, tabloid press is a big business, just as Hollywood movies are. They both have in common a way by which people can escape their everyday humdrum lives into a fantasy world of others.. Most people do not take the Kardashians seriously, or other Paris Hilton socialite types.

[dragonsword343]

I agree with your thesis that fashion has a negative impact on the society, however you misinterpreted the movie. I think the fundamental idea behind it is that sometimes in order to progres or succeed you meed to change (and it's not like the change happens immediately, and her boyfriend disagrees with it as well). But ultimately, you have to stay who you are and protect your values (hence at the end she goes back to her old lifestyle).

[JabberCT]

Im sure the obsession with reality show stars (aka non-celebrities), is only here in the US where most people cannot point out their own state on a US map but yet they know every time one of these bozos blinks or farts.

[Nhurm]

Agreed.



[franks2732]

As I am not a woman I really don't understand the concept of 'fashion', celb etc but sadly I went and looked at the magazine rack. Sorry ladies the "boy magazines" i.e. naked chicks etc seem to have little influence on women (well it is something the average girl does not want to read). But take a "dark" journey to the women's magazine section it is like the "4 horseman" as to why women (i.e. you the purchaser) are useless and the only way you can be good is to adopt the life, diet, dress tbc

[franks2732]

@franks2732 How could anyone not be influenced by this stereotyping? Or a perfume by Paris Hilton? etc etc. I really feel sorry for women on that issue. Beside us men treating women like shit, women are doing it to themselves. And it must work because women buy the magazines that create this illusion created by women who prey on other women's emotions. I could never walk the minefield of womanhood. My hats off to you girls, I take my hat off to you all

[jwlbailey]

Ironically FB you look like Anne Hathaway! :)

[ihatemonkeyslayerz]

. . . Marry me?

[eyallev]

@ihatemonkeyslayerz I was first in line!

[n3rdm4n]

What really separates the rich and the poor is national borders. -Really- poor people bother less about celebrities or fashion and more about where their next meal is going to come from. People concerned about the poor in the world should push for more lax migratory laws in rich countries.

[phinny5608]

Whatever the real moral of The Devil Wears Prada may be, I've had a couple of people use that movie (some scene in it, I've never seen it myself) to attack people who buy clothes at thrift stores or wherever to avoid supporting exploitation. It's irritating to no end how some people truly believe that since you can't do everything, you should do nothing and "follow the multitude to do evil" as it were.

[mdh65120]

I don't follow celebrities or fashion. I would suggest though that we all distract ourselves with things that others might consider silly, pointless or questionable. When you have worked a long, hard and stressful day, sometimes you want some kind of mindless distraction, something to take you away from the troubles of your day. For some it is sports, others reading, others TV or video games, garden work, etc..I couldn't care less about fashion, but I do need mental down time now and then..

[phinny5608]

@mdh65120 I think you missed her point. She's criticizing the priorities and values of this type of thing, not the fact that we don't use all our time productively.

[mdh65120]

@phinny5608 I didn't miss the point, and I agree with the general idea, but saying we should use that energy to focus on curing cancer misses the point that all of us distract ourselves with various silly but relatively harmless things in life. We work, have stress, and sometimes seek escape and distraction elsewhere. I think celebrity worship and fashion obsession is stupid and destructive, but it is also unrealistic to suggest we devote our minds only to lofty things all the time.

[FATMIKED5183]

Oh no wait someone else pointed it out fnally.Thank goodness.

[FATMIKED5183]

Why is it that I was the only one who pointed out that at the end of The Devil Wears prada the chick chooses her boyfriend and friends over her fashion career or whatever.If FearBlandness had watched th movie all the way through she'd know what the true moral is.I'm disappointed in her for this.And the OWS video.

[TheNakedAtheist]

@FATMIKED5183-Why is it that I was the only one who pointed out

You weren't, but don't expect her to acknowledge it. As she says "she doesn't care what people say". Even when they correct her on demonstrable factual matters.

[FATMIKED5183]

@TheNakedAtheist That's what I saw with her OWS video.

[PurpleGhost]

@1:37, I had to stop and mention this, because it honestly seems like you didn't watch that movie all the way through. "The Devil Wears Prada" even the name spells out the thing you seem to have missed. That movie, was anti-fashion industry.

The point was, for the character to realize that it's NOT worth it to have a job, if it changes who you are, or warps you in ways that are unhealthy, or that focuses on being superficial.

Hathaway's character, has a realization that fashion, is soul-sucking.

[TadRaunch]

Do you play golf?

[chattiestspike2]

I feel the same way. I've heard that the expression on my face was priceless when a few news networks covered Justin Bieber's new hair style back in 2011. It's where I lost a bit of faith in humanity. Also, when I see celebrities "trending" on twitter or yahoo.. that means people are talking about them. Talking about them so much that their names get on the trending list. yeah.. I know what you mean.

[TheNakedAtheist]

Did you say you didn't watch the whole movie? Because I found it to be an indictment of just the type of woman you're criticizing. In other words the ultimate moral of the movie was exactly the opposite of how you characterized it.

[SephieRothe]

@TheNakedAtheist To be fare there are enough movies out there that have that as the moral of the subplot that she could have chosen a better movie to make her point.

[TheNakedAtheist]

@SephieRothe

Indeed, which is why I thought that one of the few that has tried to break the mold and present a more positive message deserved to be defended.

[TheBadcop69]

Bravo. I honestly couldn't agree more. I do so wish we could focus on other things but I don't think it runs as deep as simply being human nature. a lot of this is to distract us from the ills of the world by making us feel like we need more then we do to be worthwhile human beings. why feed the hungry when you could spend that money on a new car that is only one year older then your old car. -insert eyeroll here.- at any rate great video.

[pbrskater26]

Oh, that damn show what not to wear is the same idea to that movie, you got to conform to succed in society! thats the other thing about punk that its anti conformity too!

[Adipatus]

Rumour has it that Seal and Hedi Klum are divorcing after six blissful years of marriage. Oh dear!

[valken666]

if you have money, you have money. you display it, and that's it. people like you.

a world without fashion would be like the former USSR, no happiness.

personally, I find serious people more attractive.

all boils down to the question. Is happiness needed? Should we mix fashion and science? Make beautiful science to display for others. Some already do this. Maybe it should be done more.

[toucan780]

Come on now, can you really imagine a Kardashian wearing a lab coat working on a cure for cancer?

The fashion industry does provide economic opportunity (and I will will admit explotation in regards to the third world sweat shops) for dull witted people that look good in a bathing suit. So what do we do with people that look good in a bathing suit and have no other skills? The fashion industry keeps the good looking bathing suit people off the streets,

[FATMIKED5183]

But at the end of the movie she realzed that her boyfrend and friends were more important than her career and qit or whatever and ran back to her man.Shoulda watched the whole thing before complaining about it and saying what you thought was the moral.

[FATMIKED5183]

Sounded like you said fucking through the channels.lolAnd agree with you!

[Adipatus]

@FATMIKED5183 Yeah, I heard that too. But immediately assumed she meant anything but that.

[thraxman]

Completely agree... the vacuousness of it all is appalling. Great vid...

[pbrskater26]

I dont like her anyways. I am not that into fashion, besides punk is a mindset not fasion, there are too meny posers who dress punk and dont know what it is to be punk . Punk is fighting the system and authority and about questioning traditinal thought!! For example traditinal thought would be creationist theology! Science and punk are similer!!

[ndrthrdr1]

I agreed with your views as you expressed them in this video, and at the same time appreciated your prettiness and hotness. I'm not sure what this says about me.