Why is it that women are obsessed with Celebrity?

Just like soccer? Go home. I don't watch football for conversation-fodder.

Am female, i don't understand the obsession with celebs(they are fecking human beings!) and i love soccer...ManUtd to be exact :P

chalad07 wrote: »

I know some girls are going to counter with 'Well guys buy FHM'. This an absolute unfair comparison, mags like FHM are sometimes pretty interesting (plus theres Boobies). Even females could sit down and enjoy some of the articles.

Exactly, Lets see Hello/Ok give you tips if you are attacked by a group of sharks or if bears force you up into a tree.

I thought the obsession was more to do with fashion, for some reason girls seem compelled to copy what other girls wear and it all starts with celebrities.

The only other reason I can think of is to see how ****ed up their lives are and make them feel better about their own....can't really think of any other reason for Kerry Katona to exist.

Threads like this are snobbery of the worst kind. OP, you know exactly why women are interested in celebrities. It's because they're there. It's because they fill a void. It's because women's magazines are so forehead-smackingly dumb that they fill their content with crap like why Sienna Miller is a serial dater (zOmg!) or how Angelina Jolie stopped being a wild child and turned into a serial breeder and a lot of women don't stop and think 'hey you know what, this isn't actually all that interesting', instead they just don't think at all - they don't engage - and keep spending their money on perpetuating this crap.

A lot of women read celeb magazines because yeah, they are dumb. They haven't stopped to think, really think about what it is that they're doing and what they could be doing instead. Alternatives to traditional women's magazines have been springing up lately (Jezebel, which I ) which acknowledge that women don't want to know what minor celebrities are doing every second of the day (but don't mind hearing major celeb news every now and then) alongside well-written, funny articles about stuff that affects women in general. And guess what? They're getting massive readerships at the same time as women's magazines are haemorrhaging readers. Go figure.

In their defence, nobody buys Heat magazine to see a picture of Will Young in his dressing gown or whatever example it was that you gave. That's the peripheral stuff that women accept as being part of these mags. They buy them because of the cover stories and the promise of new information and gossip about famous people that they like (so mags with Brad and Ange always sell loads of copies while putting Jude Law on the cover of one mag led to its lowest sales all year).

I don't like celeb magazines. I don't like seeing photos of Jennifer Garner out with her daughter looking angrily at the camera as some sleazeball photographer takes her picture. But dear God, I will defend to the death the right of women (and men, for that matter) to discuss celebrities. It doesn't have to be idiotic, it doesn't have to be mindless. I'm not dumb enough to pretend that celeb culture isn't ever either of those things but I'm saying it doesn't have to be.

I know some girls are going to counter with 'Well guys buy FHM'. This an absolute unfair comparison, mags like FHM are sometimes pretty interesting (plus theres Boobies). Even females could sit down and enjoy some of the articles.

I didn't just lol when I read that, I cracked a rib from laughing so heartily. I coughed up a lung. I rolled around on the ground, begging for mercy from the hilarity. You joke, yes?

'Mags like FHM are sometimes pretty interesting'? Magazines like FHM, Nuts and Zoo are as knuckle-draggingly stupid as any women's celebrity magazine that you want to name. They're insulting to men. I would, and indeed, do, judge anyone that I see reading them, in the exact way that many posters here judge people who read celebrity magazines.

They provide exactly the same thing to men as the celeb mags do to women. [Well, almost. I've yet to see someone masturbating to a copy of Heat]. It's escapism. It's appealing to the lowest common denominators of both. It's saying that men only care about sex and macho stuff and women only care about what other women are doing. Both those ideas are so antiquated, so laughable that it's embarrassing. But the magazines still sell gazillions of copies each week.

So don't even try to pretend that men's magazines are remotely better than women's magazines. Because they're not.

Hmmm. That post was a lot longer than I thought it was going to be.

Moonbaby wrote: »

9 out of 10 users prefer to use the term molten silk to describe my snatch thanks.
I suggest you give your rot ridden knob a good descale with liquid sand and steelwool, before you decide to criticise any more ladies parts.

I suggest you both STFU.

Magpie! wrote: »

Is he always this cranky or is it just the last couple of days?

Always.
I would have banned them, but I'm on a bit of a sabbatical.