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The World Is Trying to Ban The Kardashians

A photo of Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, and Khloe Kardashian

You guys might have seen some comments around these parts or on other blogs about a “Kardashian Free Zone Day,” a boycott of the E! channel on November 27th. You also might have seen talk of a petition requesting that E! entirely remove the Kardashians from their programming because “these shows are mostly staged and place an emphasis on vanity, greed, promiscuity, vulgarity and over-the-top conspicuous consumption. While some may have begun watching the spectacle as mindless entertainment or as a sort of ‘reality satire,’ it is a sad truth that many young people are looking up to this family and are modeling their appearance and behavior after them.” Right now, the petition has nearly 85,000 signatures, so whatever you’ve seen, people are getting pretty sick of the Kardashians.

Personally, I’m torn. I’d never seen any of the Kardashian shows until this weekend. Don’t tell anybody, but I was really bored and curious, and I watched the first four episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I appreciated the show like I appreciate Jersey Shore: it’s mindless drama that’s just fun to watch. I enjoy giggling at the stupidity of people, and since these people are getting paid ridiculous amounts, I don’t feel bad for it. Everybody wins! Except, I suppose, whatever people actually look up to the Kardashians. Oh, and those girls who were very young when the show started and were almost inevitably warped by Kris Jenner‘s need for money and fame, they didn’t win either.

So really, I don’t know where I stand. I don’t want the young impressionable youth to think that emulating Kim Kardashian is remotely ok, but at the same time, I can’t imagine that Bruce Jenner’s face will ever fail to make me smile. Is it too ambitious to dream that we lived in a society where people made their own choices instead of going with whatever idiot who made her way on television has to say?

Where do you guys stand?

14 CommentsLeave a comment

  • I will miss seeing the one word comment PEE repeated down the page on every new message.. many times after I read an article about her heh?

  • I have watched the show in the past and never took what they did or said to heart and I feel sorry for those who are so outraged by this show that they waste their time and energy in bashing it. Their are people hooked on drugs, homeless and go without food, children watching their parents do drugs, steal, lie and cheat and this is what you are focusing on, really? There are bigger and way more important things you could be doing with your time. If you don’t like the show or their brand then don’t buy into it. Its that simple people.

  • WE NEED TO GET THEY SELF ENTERED PEOPLE OUT OF TV THEY ARE SHOWING PEOPLE THAT MONEY IS EVERYTHING WHILE THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD SICK AND STARVING.

  • I am very tired of hearing and seeing Kim Kardashian. What is she really and why does she have so much money. She is a waste of tv space and internet space. If she has so much money why isnt she helping out less fortunate people with it. That’s what I would be doing if I did. I am TRULY TIRED OF SEEING HER FACE EVERYWHERE AND HER FAKE BUTT AND BOOBS…………HER BUTT REALLY IS FAKE YA’LL

  • Please, get rid of this people. I’m sick and tired of all of them. They are fake, insensitive self-centered people with family values that are a joke to society. Their mother is a pimp!