Merle Ginsberg

Like, Paris Hilton wrote a book! In this book, Paris basically explains how she lives her glamorous life, and how you should copy her in order to live it too. Eat either caviar or fast food, to prove how you can eat greasy junk all the time and still be skinny with perfect skin. Never drink alcohol, and especially not champagne, because it’s too predictable. Never fly commercial airlines- if you can’t buy a jet, make friends with those who do. But Paris’ goal in life, basically, is to be attractive to men. All of the things she tells readers to do are a means to getting a boyfriend. The better boyfriend you get, the better you are, she explains. I don’t like this perspective. If she’s going to spin her life and say she doesn’t really party or drink, she should also say she contributes to lots of philanthropic causes and values herself as a kind, unique person. But she doesn’t go that far, and that bothers me. Lie if you want, but make it a good lie, an important one, so that teen readers will idolize a better version of you.… (meer)