If you are someone who looks at celebrities as less than human beings, I don't want to talk to you. Even if you are someone who frames celebrities as a product, the moment that stops being of their own free will, it stops being what they're selling and it becomes treating a real human being like an object. Treating people like people isn't putting them on a pedestal it's just basic human decency. I do not fuck with the whole "they chose fame over being a person". Like, no they didn't, YOU have it in your head that having the supposed privilege of doing something that you love for a living (most of the time that isn't even the case) is an invitation to completely violate someone's personhood and experience as a human just because you are maladjusted and can't comprehend that people just simply exist in the world. No person deserves to be perceived as an object that solely exists for other people, that shit fucks with you. Celebrity culture is severely out of hand, and I'm so sick of seeing the argument of "they asked for it" in any context. Please examine the way you perceive celebs because, obviously, there is a bigger issue overall with the situation than just this but it's a compounded issue and the first thing we can do is realizing that EVERYONE is owed their humanity, further judgment is reserved for after that happens.
