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It appears that in an effort to drum up some fresh publicity, the on-again off-again famewhoring relationship of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt is back on. Sometime in the near future, the twosome will be renewing their vows. I am certain the whole spectacle will be televised, or at the very least be plastered all over magazines like People or US. This will be the couple’s third wedding.
I’m sure you’re wondering what the hell Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag have to do with feminism. Honesty? Not a whole lot, that is until you take a step back and take a good look at the beast that is Spiedi. Let’s delve into the very idea of Heidi Montag, shall we? I …
… would go as far as to say that in our current pop culture, Heidi Montag is the very definition of the anti-feminist. Let’s face it, she rose to fame for being a reality TV star, for being in a verbally and mentally abusive relationship, and for undergoing an astounding 10 surgeries that essentially rearranged her face and body to live up to some whacked-out idea of perfection. I should also mention that Spencer Pratt held her hand and whispered encouragingly into her ear the whole time. Many even speculate that he talked her into the severe alterations she made to her body.
So the question is, is Heidi Montag helping or hindering modern feminism? Are young girls and women looking to her as a positive role model? Are people bleaching their hair in obscene groundbreaking numbers and Botoxing the living shit out of their faces to be more like Heidi? I think not. At least, I hope not. I think the public’s fascination with her is wrapped up in the idea that she is such an utter and complete trainwreck. People look at Heidi and Spencer as how not to behave. Heidi and Spencer are America’s guidebook of what not to with your life, and what lengths one should avoid taking in order to reach and maintain fame. Heidi and Spencer are astounding examples of how wealth and fame can drastically change you into something unrecognizable. Take a look at Heidi during Season 1 of The Hills and you can slowly see her unravel and morph into the mess she has become through the course of the show. It’s both sad and fascinating what fame has done to her life – or rather, what she has allowed fame to do to her life.
In a really backwards way I’d say that Heidi Montage is a good example for young girls to look up to. Through her life choices, young girls can get an up-close look at the severe price of being in an abusive relationship, the way an obsession with outward beauty can force people to take drastic measures, and the desperate lengths that should never be taken in order to pursue fame.
What do you guys think, is Heidi Montag hurting the feminism cause? More importantly does anyone even care?
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I don’t know any young women that care about Heidi Montag. Even when she was one whatever crap pseudo reality show that MTV was broadcasting, the young women that I knew who watched it didn’t pay any attention to her. They hated Spencer, but Heidi was a total non-entity, another cloned California blond caricature of a woman who hardly mattered.
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I get that there’s a certain percentage of broken individuals who will see 10 plastic surgeries as awesome, but they truly are a minority.
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As for the abuse, it’s hard to say if that’s real or a put-on for the cameras. As long as bloggers and magazines decide to cover their antics, they’re going to continue to act like moderately well-trained chimpanzees, up to and including flinging their own shit.
She’s a freak, a crash-course case study in what exactly Hollywood does to people who start out normal. How many other women have done exactly what Heidi has in Hollywood, albeit more slowly? Are 10 surgeries over a period of 15 years any less crazy or deforming than 10 in one day? I really don’t think so. I sure as hell don’t find those women attractive, or anything than scary masks; shells of their former selves. Heidi epitomizes this. The girl can’t smile without feeling pain. She can’t run anymore either. On top of that she’s unrecognizable. That’s a lot of sacrifices to pay for a different appearance, and I don’t think anyone outside of the fucked up bubble that is Hollywood would ever see it as a fair trade.
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I believe that the ridiculous surgeries celebs and rich older women are getting will cause a backlash against plastic surgery for later generations. I really hope that we learn our lesson – the women (and men, for that matter) who do this crap to themselves end up looking like caricatures of human beings. They don’t look any younger, they just look like circus freaks because of their vanity and sad quest for eternal youth.
But Shannon look at all the wonders plastic did for Michael Jackson. He definitely would not be the house hold pillar of laughter and bad jokes without plastic. Who would I make fun of on a daily basis? Can you imagine a world without that balcony baby holding, plastic mummified and dried up husk roaming the earth?
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“Wah wah wah wah….”
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“Huh what was that? What? He died?”
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“wah wah wah wahhhh”
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Never mind I withdraw the last paragraph.
I don’t think she undermines feminism, although she certainly embodies anti-feminism; I mean honestly, who doesn’t think that Spencer does all teh hard thinkings for her? If every stupid famewhoring blonde female out there threatened feminism, there would be no feminism left.
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