Kyla will tell you that yes, I am obsessed with Perez Hilton’s website. I don’t know why, I just love to be up on the celebrity news and do not really feel compelled to buy those trashy magazines in the supermarket check-out line. It’s fast, easy, and free to check Hilton’s website. However, that does NOT mean that I like Perez as a person.
Perez seems like the person in High School who no one liked because of his obnoxious, loud, and overbearing personality. I truly believe that I could never sit down and have a conversation with him because he is so set in his beliefs; something that I cannot stand. I mean, yes, I’m pro-abortion, but I can see how people might be upset by this.
Case in point, Perez is obsessed with ‘outing’ celebrities. That is to say, if a celebrity is a closeted homosexual, Perez delights in insinuating that they are gay or going straight out and saying that the person is gay. Perez says that as a journalist, he feels it incumbent upon himself to report the news, and to him, reporting who is gay or not is an integral part of the news. Says Hilton,”I don’t think it’s a bad thing. If you know something to be a fact, why not report it? Why is that still taboo?”
First things first: I cannot explain why there is still a taboo against gays in the entertainment community, but there is one. It isn’t going to help the situation to just start outing people left, right, and center! In fact, doing so might aggravate the situation because even if the celebrities who have been outed agree and say, “Yes, I’m gay,” they will not be as likely to help the gay community that slighted them.
Hilton further argues that real news networks report on straight relationships, why shouldn’t he be able to report on gay relationships? There are so many things wrong with this statements. A fear that some fat, lonely blogger buried away in L.A. will out you for millions to see can definitely drive closeted gay people further into the closet than before. Furthermore, this is the same “journalist” who blogs regularly about “what a slut Miley Cyrus is,” and which stars are rumored to be using botox. Not only are most of his “reports” just that, rumors, but they are continually peppered with a liberal serving of bias, something that a majority of news providers try to stray away from with the help of a 9-foot pole. Trying to keep yourself to “journalist” levels on one end of your reporting, and then sleezy MEAN tabloid levels on the other is stupid, and therefore any “printing the facts” excuse is negated. You cannot trust Perez Hilton to deliver the straight facts and information without any bias or opinion. Comparing himself to the Matt Lauers and Katie Courics of the world is terrible insult to the craft of conveying news that is Journalism.
Hilton acts like he’s secure enough in his sexuality to talk about how he is gay; but he certainly is not secure enough with himself as a PERSON not to name call from behind the safety of his computer in Hollywood. I’d like to see him name call to these people’s faces!
So please realize, Perez Hilton, your outing of celebrities is nothing more than some old-fashioned MEANNESS!
