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What it says on the tin - vote now for your favorite entries in the challenge contest (link above because I'm away from home and this PC hates me *grrr*). And then check out challenge 163 now up. I may have to enter that one as well because I'm having way too much fun with this; and the song lyrics the mods choose have endless possible uses.
I'm eager to see which icon win - and in fact I don't care if I win because I'm genuinely pleased with the icon sets I did for this challenge and I can't wait to share them with y'all.
In other news - a friend told me this morning that Ellen Page, self-proclaimed "little Canadian", just came out of the closet. Which, no surprise to me (my dyke detector was off the charts when I saw her in Juno) but I'm still tickled lavender because it's still a risky thing to do, even if more states in the US and more countries around the world have gay marriage laws. (Spain? Uruguay? SRSLY?) Things really are getting better but in terms of discrimination and prejudice we're not all the way there by a long shot.
Kudos to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eilowyn btw for turning me on to Ellen's fierce feminist politics and humor a few months back.
What it says on the tin - vote now for your favorite entries in the challenge contest (link above because I'm away from home and this PC hates me *grrr*). And then check out challenge 163 now up. I may have to enter that one as well because I'm having way too much fun with this; and the song lyrics the mods choose have endless possible uses.
I'm eager to see which icon win - and in fact I don't care if I win because I'm genuinely pleased with the icon sets I did for this challenge and I can't wait to share them with y'all.
In other news - a friend told me this morning that Ellen Page, self-proclaimed "little Canadian", just came out of the closet. Which, no surprise to me (my dyke detector was off the charts when I saw her in Juno) but I'm still tickled lavender because it's still a risky thing to do, even if more states in the US and more countries around the world have gay marriage laws. (Spain? Uruguay? SRSLY?) Things really are getting better but in terms of discrimination and prejudice we're not all the way there by a long shot.
Kudos to
eilowyn btw for turning me on to Ellen's fierce feminist politics and humor a few months back.
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Date: 2014-02-18 10:34 pm (UTC)Yes. We NEED heros, we need stories, we need to share our stories - but we also need to be part of something larger than ourselves. It's a human need, it's in our hardwiring.
And this can be a very healthy impulse - to help, to share, to build, to fight for social justice, to hold someone when they cry or need someone to lean on, to celebrate as a community, etc. But it can also be very unhealthy, as the obsession with celebrities shows - the feeling that one is "less than" & "worth less" but the feeling can somehow be mitigated through a celebrity.
And there's the fact that in our culture today, people are considered "worth less" unless we are rich, famous successful - we're losers. Do we believe that in our hearts? Not really, but the message is conveyed over and over. That if you're poor, if your unemployed, if you don't have the world at your feet, then YOU DIDN'T TRY HARD ENOUGH. So somehow those who "made it" must possess some magic, and if only we can get a little of it to rub off on ourselves.
I also suspect there's an addiction aspect. I have friends who are fans of a particular male country singer and they go to all of his concerts, meet him in person at every chance. And these are healthy, well-adjusted people but there is something so powerfully magnetic about that singer. I suspect that celebrities are both sponges and mirrors - they soak up all the attention (energy) they receive, and the ones who can handle it well shine the power and attention (energy) back outward.