a fight for the soul of poptimism...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

...has broken out on this thread. Since I am now using 'poptimist' with scare quotes, it may be possible that I am about to publicly 'break' with 'the' 'movement'. :-)

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Well she wasn't a popstar but she was a TV star, or an entertainment star, or a nebulous brand star, this is surely a common enough phenomenon that it doesn't get people's backs up?

In any case I think there's a bit too much conflating of the person and the persona going on, a few too many assumptions that Simple Life Paris = real Paris. Curiously Paris seems to have a reasonably good grip of this:

Hilton says the baby voice she uses on the reality TV show "The Simple Life" is an act.

"I'm always playing a character," she says. "I don't talk like this really -- like a baby. I don't act like myself in public, because I don't really want to show everyone the real me. Because I have no privacy whatsoever, the only thing I have is who I really am." (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/21/people.parishilton.ap/index.html)