I get a lot of link requests. I mean, a LOT. and I do try to look in any way of the sites, and I do have a list that I will get around to linking when I have five complimentary minutes to edit that sidebar over there. but do you know who I *won’t* be linking to? any of those bitchy sites that exist just so people can make $1.53 in advertising profits by dissing celebrities and what they’re wearing.
Yeah, yeah, I know I link to Go Fug Yourself, but first, they’re actually FUNNY, and second, they, in the main, limit their criticism to clothes, shoes, jewelry (and, to a lesser extent, hair)–things the celebrities have (or must have) control over. I don’t see them spending the bulk of their time ragging on people’s bodies, and they go out of their way to compliment people when they can.
But some of the other sites (which I won’t link to here; heaven forbid I send them any traffic) say things like “She’s a horse!” or “And would you look at those hips, it’s too large for her age. It’s like she gave birth already.” WTF?
Some of these “critics” think that celebrities have signed up to be shredded by them. That “it’s the price of fame.” Yeah, well, who made you the collections agent for fame? basic kindness towards a fellow human must preclude you from writing >90% of what is said on these sites. Do as you would be done by, and all that.
It’s your ideal as a blogger to be as unfunny, cruel, and mercenary as you like. I can’t stop you. but I won’t link to you, and I won’t read you, and I will hope against hope that you become reality-tv-style popular for just one day so that you can have the dubious pleasure of reading what carping and microhearted folks say about YOU and YOUR BODY on other blogs. got it?
(Oh, and I’m not trying to imply that Elizabeth Taylor is bitchy — I just wanted a stunning celebrity in a best dress to grace the page.)
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