Firstly, it is a slap in the face to the 434 gays that pick your clothes, paint your nails, match your handbag, road test your shoes and do your long hair, take that long hair and suture it to your scalp hair for you to use marriage as a cheap way to get attention, money, attention and money.
This is because those 430 gays and their gay brothers and sisters are right now doing their utmost to prove to the straight world that they should be allowed to marry. That they won't cheapen or defile the institution. How dare you piss on this thing for a quid and a laugh, when there are those out there fighting earnestly for it? Those, incidently, that are probably two-feet away from you right now wiping spray tan off your elbows.
And what the hell kind of society do we have that allows scum like this to get married, but not champions like me and my gay mates?
Though maybe we should thank Kim Kardashian for bringing to light what's really going on in the marriage debate. The wedding of Kim Kardashian and The Groom makes abundantly clear that it is perfectly OK for straights to cheapen and defile the institution. No laws are being bandied about to stop her or any or all other straights from wrecking the institution from the inside out. As John Waters says, if you really want to protect heterosexual marriage, outlaw heterosexual divorce. It seems the problem isn't about people not taking marriage seriously, it is simply about keeping gays out.
So thanks Kim Kardashian. If your marriage was some kind of awesome piece of performance art on the world stage to tease out the paradoxes in marriage inequality, then you have shown yourself to be a deft provocateur. However, if the more likely explanation is true – that you're nothing more than a bullshit artist trying to make a buck regardless of the fans you betray, the institutions you tarnish, and the attention you suck – then you suck.
And another thing! Your main demographic is impressionable young girls. They deserve better than you. They shouldn't be getting the idea that marriage is just a party rather than a commitment. That you don't have to love the guy or even like him. That all that matters is the dress, the cake, how you look and the profit margins. That it's not about love, it's about money. Now that is a really traditional view of marriage.
And one last thing!! Who ARE you Kim Kardashian?! I know your media persona, but is there a real *YOU* under there? How can anyone (yourself included!) ever tell what's real and what's not when you're willing to fake something as important as a relationship and a marriage, simply because it would make good TV and make good money. Maybe there is a real you under all there, or maybe by now the mask has become your face. Or maybe the fact you were born and raised by a family that could give this kind of scam their full blessing suggests a "you" that isn't merely opportunistic, lying surface never had a chance of being nurtured in the first place.
source: ABC
