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Showing posts with label Hardest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hardest. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Ariana Grande Declares Herself Hardest Working Millennial, Gets Roasted Online
Millennials have a reputation for being lazy, entitled, and self-absorbed, and for the most studies show its unwarranted, and the Internet generation is actually no more likely to harbor feelings of inherent superiority than young people at any other time in recent history.
Celebrities – and former child stars in particular – also have a reputation for being lazy, entitled, and self-absorbed, and for the most, part it’s completely justified.
Take Ariana Grande, for example:
The singer posted the above photo to Instagram this week, along with a caption reading:
“When you’re cute but you’re also the hardest working 23 year old human being on earth #cute #butalso #CEO #unf–kwitable #haventsleptinyears”
Ladies and gentlemen, we might have just reached peak entitlement.
Obviously, the idea that Ariana works harder than any other 23-year-old on the planet is patently ridiculous, and she’s currently being roasted on social media as a result of her claim.
Some folks have defended Ariana, claiming that she’s only taking flak for her comments because she’s a woman.
They are wrong.
The hardest working 23-year-old on the planet probably is a woman…
… but she’s definitely not a celebrity with eight figures in the bank.
In fact, she’s probably a single mom in the South Bronx or Appalachia who manages a McDonald’s by day, picks her kids up from school, makes dinner, and then mans the front desk at a hotel or works as a security guard by night.
We’re not saying that Ariana doesn’t work hard (Although this is the same woman who gets carried around like a baby by her bodyguards because she hates walking.), but any time anyone becomes rich and famous (particularly while still in their teens), there’s a tremendous amount of luck involved.
There are millions of talented, hard-working people out there who never hit the big time, simply because they never met with the right opportunities, or their support system was lacking, or any number of other things didn’t work exactly as they would’ve needed to.
And that’s something you very rarely hear young celebrities talk about.
Sure, many of them will pay lip service to the fact that they’ve been extremely fortunate, but it’s rare to hear a young star articulate just how many things played out just right for them when they easily could’ve gone in a different direction.
For the most part, Ariana is a good role model for her young fans.
She’s spoken out against bullying, body-shaming, and the objectification of women.
Unfortunately, it seems Grande is shockingly out of step with reality when it comes to the day-to-day financial and career realities of many of her fans.
Ariana could do a lot for the struggling young folks who look up to her by reminding them that in the same way that her enviable physique is a combination of hard work and good fortune, so too is her career.
Her decision to suggest that her success is entirely the result of her superior work ethic seems astonishingly tone deaf.
Perhaps Ms. Grande should visit with some of her less-fortunate fans to remind herself that it’s not just body image issues that can impact a young person’s self-esteem.
Many have spent their lives feeling unworthy because of dire financial straits, and the last thing they need to be told is that they simply need to work harder.
Monday, December 14, 2015
Jill & Jessa Counting On Recap: The Hardest Year Ever
The 19 Kids & Counting crew – or part of it, anyway – finally returned last night with the first of TLC’s Jill & Jessa: Counting On specials.
If you know anything about the Duggar family, no matter what you think of them, you know they sure have been through a lot in the past year.
A LOT.
The Arkansas reality stars saw their popular show axed after Josh’s molestation scandal last spring, in which we learned he abused his sisters.
The s–t truly hit the fan a few months later, when he confessed to cheating on his long-suffering wife Anna, all while espousing family values.
Unreal.
On Jill and Jessa: Counting On last night, we saw his siblings – and Anna – react to the scandals for the first time, and it made for intense TV.
Josh Duggar, of course, is toiling away in a Christian sex rehab labor camp, and did not appear on camera. Yet he was a major star of the show.
Jessa told the cameras, “Over the years, Josh worked really hard to repair our trust in him, and he became someone we could really look up to.”
“Josh ended up confessing to us that he had gotten addicted to pornography and had been unfaithful to his wife, and we were devastated.”
“It felt like it was just a bad dream. How could this happen?”
By “repair our trust,” Jessa clearly means after he molested her as a young girl. Jill talked about being one of Josh’s abuse victims, saying:
“When the police report was released, that wasn’t right … We really had to work through it. As a victim you’ve already worked through it.”
“You’ve already dealt with it and moved on.”
“You don’t want it rubbed in your face.”
Jill Duggar slammed Josh, however, when it came to cheating on Anna – leading a secret life and letting Jill and Jessa go on TV to defend him.
The married sisters infamously went on Fox News to run damage control in an interview with Megyn Kelly, unaware of what else he was hiding.
Jinger Duggar, Joy-Anna Duggar, John David Duggar and Jana Duggar also appeared on Counting On, calling these some of the toughest times.
It was jarring – and reassuring, in an odd sense – to see his younger brothers talk about how they always looked up to Josh, but no longer do.
Anna, too, spoke out in disbelief.
Some speculate that she turned to reality TV to bank some quick cash and leave Josh, while others believe it was part of the healing process.
Either way, she was (and is) clearly heartbroken and it was hard not to feel for the poor girl as she recalled how blindsided she was by her man.
The focus of Jill & Jessa: Counting On was, ostensibly, Jill’s new baby with Derick Dillard, and Jessa’s pregnancy with husband Ben Seewald.
Both are worth focal points, and should be front and center in subsequent episodes. This week, though, was all about Josh, and for good reason.
His problems derailed a reality show empire, and tarnished a family so many looked up to. Kudos to the Duggars for addressing this head on.
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