The Internet – like alliances during world wars – makes for
strange bedfellows.
Here is such an example. Today, I’m defending someone I
wouldn’t otherwise even think about: Kylie Jenner.
I don’t know much about her outside of assuming with the
Jenner name she’s tied in with the Kardashian clan. She’s attractive, and
probably makes her money with makeup or whatever else the hell that vapid group
of simps does for money.
Despite my wording, I do say defend, because of this.
Yes, it’s totally useless to post a photo of yourself with a
cliched, pseudo-inspirational message below it. But it’s not far from the
uselessness I put on my own social media accounts, viz:
She dared use the word “fire” as inspiration.
Cue the even simpier, who dogpiled her on the internet,
inferring that her use of the word “fire” and her posing in front of a
fireplace is “insensitive” to those in Australia dealing with a record level of
destructive wildfires.
Please.
Vapidity like this gets me fired up. I’m on fire with rage,
and other fire-related wordplay.
I don’t want to live in a world where we have to be so
hyperaware of what’s going on globally that we have to avoid using certain
words and imagery – even cliched words and imagery – lest we offend.
And let’s face it, were the simpiers piling on her really
offended, or were they just looking for an excuse to pile?
I think the latter.
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