Shelly: I think women like that inspire fundamentalist terrorists to hate Americans.
Freetosee: I am speechless! What makes you think that way?
Shelly:I should have said people like that. I have heard so much of religious fundamentalists-terrorists and others-say that America is so corrupt, so licentious, so wasteful, greedy, lazy, so blatantly selfish and self serving that we are an abomination in the world(or to God, Jehovah, Allah). . .So when people that simply glory in bacchanalian excesses are constantly celebrated in the media, that is all that some people can see. And the contrast is so great(from modesty and decent living) that they justify their attitudes that we all deserve to die-whether by Gods hand or their own. This is an ex-JW site. Anyone remember all the JWs (and various other kinds of fundies-I have been guilty) saying that this world is so wicked that it is inevitable that God should destroy it? Is the nice family from Iowa having a bbq being shown? No, a woman who brags about how hot she is, who makes porn videos of herself, who is known for how much she can shop, and how little fabric she can pay loads of money for, the kind of cars she drives and the way she makes fun of 'common' folks is the one that gets the attention and is highlighted for all of those things.
That being said, it is certainly no excuse, it is used to justify and give evidence of how corrupt our society is. Not that most of us have lives anything like that. And that kind of person will use anything to justify what they want. Reality is what we make of it, and they(fundamentalists) can slant the news just as good as anyone in the media can.
I am not jealous of her, and could think of much better things to do with my life had I been given her opportunities-but I don't know know what happened from the time she was born with the silver spoon in her mouth until now that made her that way-cause not all well off people live like her. I could name you all kinds of things that are imperfect/less than ideal in my life, and I would rather have all of them being me than to live her life. I said earlier, I think she is very sad. But God loves her and she is young yet, and age can cure a lot of stupid. Or exacerbate it. It will be interesting to find out how she ends up. I can only wish her the best.