So finally…a blog topic that I am familiar and fluent with – tabloids. Yes, I have to admit, from Star Magazine and Entertainment Tonight to Perez Hilton.com – I am a celebrity gossip addict (and I should probably seek help). Therefore, I feel very equipped to discuss, and can safely say that I am aware of the "issue" that the article "The Tabs: no men allowed – Why do the gossip rags only feature women when there are so many stories of male stars behaving badly?" dives into.
I have several explanations for this seemingly troublesome question. Firstly, as a regular celebrity gossip follower and as a female, to be quite honest, stories about male celebrities are usually pretty boring – it doesn’t shock or really interest me when a ‘Justin Timberlake’ or a ‘P. Diddy’ go out and party. I am way more interested in how much weight Britney Spears or Lindsey Lohan have gained or lost and what they were wearing the night before. And I think that this is a common viewpoint with the majority of the gossip magazine readers – or else don’t you think that the magazine companies and TV show executives would change things? I guess this was kind of the point of the article, but seriously, who cares if Owen Wilson gets enough media attention for his suicide attempt? Isn’t it a good thing that the tabloids are (relatively) leaving him alone so he can recover without 100000 cameras in his face? In addition, how often do you hear someone say that women are getting too much attention and credit in the media or the work place or anywhere else? So you know what boys, let us have it! Good or bad, this is one small step for us girls – let us control what we read in the gossip mags and if it’s Paris Hilton we want, let us have scandalous pictures of Paris at a nightclub on a Tuesday!
On a side note, I would like to recommend www.perezhilton.com , www.dlisted.com and www.pinkisthenewblog.com to anyone that needs to feed their celebrity gossip addiction.
I have several explanations for this seemingly troublesome question. Firstly, as a regular celebrity gossip follower and as a female, to be quite honest, stories about male celebrities are usually pretty boring – it doesn’t shock or really interest me when a ‘Justin Timberlake’ or a ‘P. Diddy’ go out and party. I am way more interested in how much weight Britney Spears or Lindsey Lohan have gained or lost and what they were wearing the night before. And I think that this is a common viewpoint with the majority of the gossip magazine readers – or else don’t you think that the magazine companies and TV show executives would change things? I guess this was kind of the point of the article, but seriously, who cares if Owen Wilson gets enough media attention for his suicide attempt? Isn’t it a good thing that the tabloids are (relatively) leaving him alone so he can recover without 100000 cameras in his face? In addition, how often do you hear someone say that women are getting too much attention and credit in the media or the work place or anywhere else? So you know what boys, let us have it! Good or bad, this is one small step for us girls – let us control what we read in the gossip mags and if it’s Paris Hilton we want, let us have scandalous pictures of Paris at a nightclub on a Tuesday!
On a side note, I would like to recommend www.perezhilton.com , www.dlisted.com and www.pinkisthenewblog.com to anyone that needs to feed their celebrity gossip addiction.
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