There is nothing, and I mean nothing, more valuable than victim status.
I saw some parts of the Meghan/Harry interview and the nutshell summary of it is:
A third rate Hollywood actress who had a history of treating her family like shit married into one of the wealthiest families in the world, used her marriage to build her brand and get jobs in Hollywood she otherwise would not have gotten, alienated her husband from his family, aired her in-laws’ dirty laundry on international TV, and still believes she is the victim.
She had fame, fortune, and access but that isn’t enough anymore. She had to be a victim. She had to figure out how to be one of the wealthiest and most privileged people on Earth and still have poor people feel sorry for her.
This is one of the cultural harbingers of the apocalypse of society.
Once upon a time, as recently as the early to mid 20th Century, the wealthy and powerful had a sense of noblesse oblige.
The robber barons built great libraries, concert halls, funded cultural institutions to better the classes below them.
Today’s wealthy and powerful want the classes below them to be sympathetic to them. This is how you get multi-millionaire celebrities giving sob stories of oppression.
Just the other day it was in the news that Taylor Swift was claiming that a joke made at her expense on a Netflix show that nobody watches made her the victim of misogyny. Taylor Swift is one of the most popular musicians alive right now and is worth $400 million. She can take a fucking joke at her expense.
When Tiger Woods has his car accident, CNN showed an old interview of him talking about a time when some rando on a golf course said something to him that might have been racist. Tiger Woods is worth $800 million and spent six years banging a Swedish bikini model until he got bored with her to bang a hostess on the side.
I’m not condoning racism but a guy worth nearly a billion dollars who goes home and bangs a Swedish bikini model should have enough self-confidence to ignore some old fuking guy on the golf course being an asshole and not go to CNN to explain how oppressed he is.
We’ve gone from a society that valued leveling up to one in which everyone wants to be the biggest sob story.
We are doomed.
If I were worth $800 million, banging a hottie, and some AH called me a something racially insensitive,, my response would have been “Sucks to be you.”
Yup
Mine would have been “sod off”.
I am a strong, independent woman … who is victimized? Many of the people I love have horrible stories in their past, and part of what I love about their character is their ability to rise above. These people have strength, perseverance, unfailing hope, and determination, some of the best traits humanity can display. My parents rarely talked about how hard life was in the Depression or during the wars and never in a way that made them sound oppressed. My mother weighed 98 pounds at 5’6″ when she married my father. This was not a diet — this was malnutrition. But they were proud people, and if they mentioned their past, it was either with fondness for the good things they remember or to tell us kids to buck up, because we, too, can endure hardship.
The Greatest Generation weeps.
I can understand a bit of frustration on the part of the very rich and very famous. Not kidding. It is not all it’s cracked up to be.
However, you are 100% correct. Victim status is a new currency. And, the bigger of a victim you can be, the more status you achieve. It is difficult to watch others gain fortune and fame for nothing more than achieving victim status (Colin WorthlessQB anyone?) and not think “I want a piece of that action.”
Add in an adoring media intent on increasing ratings, and you have what we saw Sunday. Poor spoiled rich girl gets MASSIVE media attention (and sympathy).
Yawn……hey look, I still have mags to load….