Things that make me hate life June 16, 2008 Jill And people: African turmoil is so trendy! Oooh, shiny! Yes, I know it’s Page Six, but really?
Wow. People get impressively…I don’t even know what the word for this is…shallow? Oh you know, who cares how terrible what’s happening there is…Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie go there, so it’s trendy! and cool! look at all the hardship these people go through! oh! I think I want a cupcake. Seriously.
So like, I was gonna go to Africa to help open a school but I was late. So instead I looked at pretty little things that were dug out of the ground by African slaves with a black guy and then went to a resort named after a desert. Thats kinda the same thing, right?
Deja Vu! This has happened before! Africa’s Hotness Remember Paltrow’s “I am African” posters. There are funny spoofs there making fun of silly celebrities.
Though none of my college classmates were this superficial and crass, there were a sizable minority who participated in volunteering trips to various developing and Third World countries more for the cause of building up their “progressive activist cred”, their holier than thou attitude towards those who were not like them, and to visit exotic places rather than any noble altruistic moves of actually helping people…
I really wanted to see the country What country? Africa is not a country, you airhead. Shallow isn’t even close.
Well, if the turmoil in South Africa is trendy, what’s going on in Zimbabwe must be fabulous. Do these people have the slightest idea how stupid they sound?
the DeBeer diamond model makes me gag. She’s white, blonde, and blue-eyed, draped in BLOOD diamonds. How totally appropriate.
The conflict in Africa is “trendy” and I want a look, yet let me go to Vegas and see diamonds, most of which are probably the root of the conflict in Africa to begin with! Yeah, ignorance at it’s best.
A marvelous commenter on the Gawker site named Pope John Peeps II said this: You know a way to makes this article really satisfying is to take your index finger and cover over the words “Valley. I wanted to be”, then read the last part again.
what, I can’t interrupt the bashing of celebrity-obsessed ditzes to point out that you guys totally didn’t notice random picture of the awesomest celeb ever! geez, you guys are no fun. 😉
Marle you really scared me, I hadn’t really been paying attention and your comment made me think for a minute that Alyson Hannigan was somehow involved with this!
Is that intended to be satire? I know the Internets are full of idiots who misuse words like “satire” and “irony” whenever there’s a challenge to something that’s just plain stupid and horrible (see Crimitism satirize the “satirizers” in “Ironic Bigotry Man!”) But I see this and I think someone was making a poor attempt to ridicule people who buy diamonds and act concerned about Africa as a cause celebe at the same time.
Sorry, but what is the source of that shocking thing? Honestly, it does sound like an Onion piece, but reminds me of (I think Jon Stewart’s segment on) Cameron Diaz excited about pooing in the jungle or something, except this one is much, much worse.
This *has* to be a joke. “Coincidentally, the minute I missed my plane, my BlackBerry started buzzing off the hook” and then I was off to a diamond convention? The juxtaposition is too perfect.