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sex tape was revenge porn
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revisited the experience of having her sex tape released without her consent in 2003, saying that it was like being raped
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Hilton revealed that as a teen, she was sent to a series of abusive boarding schools where she was beaten and kept in solitary confinement. After reuniting on camera with a group of fellow survivors who knew her before she was famous, she theorized that when she got out of those schools at age 18, she developed her spoiled heiress “Paris” persona as a trauma response.
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The story of Paris Hilton is not a clear-cut tragedy the way the story of Britney Spears is.
✏️ foundationally nothing like Spears, a working-class child performer turned teenage pop star for whom the media acted as both a pump and a drain, simultaneously sexualizing her and then blaming her for that sexiness. Hilton and others lived as symbiotic parasites with tabloids, getting famous by feeding the system what it wanted. Also, extremely racist: https://jezebel.com/the-revision-of-paris-hiltons-story-is-missing-somethin-1845093418
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The pop culture of the time invaded Hilton’s privacy, and then somehow, nonsensically, blamed her for that invasion. She wanted it, the world concluded, because who would say no to attention? Even when that attention is as humiliating as the kind Hilton received?
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The very suggestion that a woman might have a body that could have sex, and that this sex could potentially be exposed to the public, with or without her consent, was held to be inherently shameful.
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Paris Hilton seemed to embody the capitalist patriarchal ideal so thoroughly as to burlesque it. She was so thin, so white, so blonde, so rich: like a Barbie, only real. She was everything girls were taught they should want to be by men who wanted to sell them something. “She was the ultimate package that corporate America would want to make for itself as a marketing tool
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The patriarchy that used her to sell an image treated her with disdain and contempt because our culture considers femininity to be both compulsory and inherently humiliating. And people who didn’t want to buy what the patriarchy was selling, who considered themselves too smart and too cool to fall for its tricks, directed their fury at Hilton rather than at the system itself.
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o mock her the way we did, we had to have bought all of what America and its pop culture had sold us: the belief that women are shameful and women’s bodies are shameful and women’s sex is shameful and women’s aesthetics are shameful. We bought all of that, and we convinced ourselves that we had escaped the trap of how awful it is to be a girl. We would never be like Paris Hilton because we knew better — except we didn’t, and when we mocked her, we were only showing all the ways in which we did not truly know better. We were internalizing ideas that in the end we would be forced to turn on ourselves.