I agree with the thing about the celebrities themselves being the ones most hurt by our excesses. Some of those excesses are rather obvious - stalking, for example (... though looking at the way some younger fans of bands in particular seem to do that without apparently noticing that following their idols around and waiting in front of their houses is stalking, this seems to be less obvious than it should be...), or fans attacking each other over their idol - but others, like the constant demand of absolute perfection especially from the media, are not, and yet they're just as damaging
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Yeah, there's a weird mix of utter glorification of celebrities, and utter dehumanization. If we didn't idealize celebrities and use them as models for our own morals and view of the world and whatever, then it wouldn't be such a crisis when they behaved like human beings! I do tend to idolize certain celebrities and then get disillusioned, I must admit - but if they've done something particularly morally objectionable (usually sexist. . . so many sexist things) then I'm probably not going to want to support them financially anymore, even if I haven't written them off as a decent human being or whatever
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I do tend to idolize certain celebrities and then get disillusioned, I must admit - but if they've done something particularly morally objectionable (usually sexist. . . so many sexist things) then I'm probably not going to want to support them financially anymore, even if I haven't written them off as a decent human being or whatever.Our reactions as fans to "our" idols doing something morally (or even legally) objectionable or plain wrong is very interesting, I think. This is something I've been thinking about for quite a long time, but I don't know whether I actually mentioned it before - I might have, but I can't remember it anymore. Stop me if this sounds very familiar, OK
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