A letter to Bristol Palin

[veronica_rich]

Dear Bris:

Okay, I know Lifetime is shit TV, but I like Will & Grace reruns. But it also means I'm subjected to promos for your new reality show. I mostly ignore them because, after all, whatever. Enjoy your 15 minutes. I don't run cable.

But tonight's promo was more than my bullshit meter could handle. Whose idea was that Fosse-esque running dance around a spotlight on a dark set, throwing up your hands and dodging it, while you whine in a voiceover how hard your life has been since you were seventeen? I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended to make me burst out laughing - but good show.

Listen, kid, here's how it is: Your teenage problems with the public eye were a combination of your mother's fault for dragging you around to boost her image, and a moron press corps that should've treated you as off-limits while you were still a kid - a stupid kid, but hey, kids should get to be stupid. It's a perk of childhood. Even Obama criticized the press to leave you alone then. I'm sure it sucked, and I pitied you then. But you're an adult now, and if you want to do the famewhore thing, you've gotta take the lumps that come with it, with less whining and more guff. Quit bitching that being a Palin comes with all this unfair scrutiny - that's all your mother's doing, William Kristol's, and the Kochs.

After all, you seem content enough to be right there in the middle of it - it's easier than doing a real job, right? Your mom figured that out years ago. And you're well paid for your exposure. This is your choice, kid; enjoy it!

-Ver

Comments

[finding-neo.livejournal.com]

This made my day. I had no idea she was doing a TV show too. Didn't her impregnator beat her to that, she's a little behind the curve.

But you slammed every nail on the head. Thanks for that. I know there is one person in the world with some sense still.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

You really ought to see the promo. I tried to find it on YouTube and the Lifetime website to no avail (to be fair, I didn't spend more than five minutes at it - lazy search). Maybe it's so new it's not up yet. But man, it's a peach!

[anjala.livejournal.com]

I loved this, too. I was a teenage mother and I didn't expect people to bend over backwards for me. Yes, I had my mother's help. My parents eventually adopted both of my boys (long story, won't get into here), but I knew that I wouldn't have made a good mother. I was too emotionally damaged.

The point I am trying to make, and failing at miserably, is that she put herself in the public eye when she went on Dancing with the Stars. She put herself in the public eye when she posed, with her son and Levi Johnston, on People magazine.

AARRGGHH!

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Well, and it's the type of exposure you want, too. "Dancing" is a talent show, of sorts; so long as all she's doing is dancing and talking about dancing or the music, I think political confrontation is out of place - she didn't run for office. But when she puts herself on a show whining about how misunderstood Mommy and everyone are, yeah. Sink your teeth in, boys.

[vejiicakes.livejournal.com]

Haha, I found out and had to put up with promos for her show the exact same way XD

Ugh, seriously, I just.. I mean, I sympathize with someone who probably just wants to go out and not have to deal with people getting up in her face about her mom or politics, but the minute "you're a grown man arguing with a twenty year old girl!" left her mouth, I just... What self-respecting adult woman infantilizes herself like that? *shudder*

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Well, Mommy's directed her actions her entire life - the only thing she probably ever did on her own was get pregnant (and there's a good chance she was under orders to give birth without a choice). No wonder she sees herself that way.