Hooray for backlash! Hooray! Hooray!

Gossip Columnist Lloyd Grove has declared an end to Paris Hilton appearances in his column, and Low Culture broadened it to a full-on call to arms: Let this talentless wench control our attention no more! That sounds more than perfect to me, and as you'll note above, it also seemed like a great purpose to use a logo creator I recently found. It's not like I posted much about her to begin with, but after this post, I assure you: HappyScrappy is officially a Paris-free zone.

Am I ashamed to say I tracked down the Paris Hilton sex tapes when they first hit the Internet? I am not. And I'll tell you why: Because man, they were gross! Correction: She is gross! Not necessarily what she was doing, but just her. Paris. Gross. I watched in horror. I watched like I was watching brain surgery, and blood -- like Paris Hilton -- grosses me out. And while it was the last thing she's been a part of that I ever consciously wasted my time on, somehow I cannot avoid her. She's in magazines. Television commercials (and a show, I guess, but I haven't watched it). Newspapers. She keeps doing stupid shit, I'm sure, so every blog I read will write about it. And like Lloyd Grove and Low Culture, I have had enough. Paris, leave me alone! Leave. Me. Alone!

I'll let Lloyd sum up the rest:

Over the past five years - without any discernible talent, education, scruples, manners, modesty or underpants - the pretty blond great-granddaughter of hotel magnate Conrad Hilton has waged a terrifying campaign for world domination.

The arc of Paris' "career" - from rich, witless party girl to rich, witless party girl with a hit television show - is an insult to the American sense of fairness: the idea that you get ahead by working hard, playing by the rules and acquiring a skill of some sort.

Paris has bothered with none of the above, and yet society continues to reward her with money and fame. ...

We're a better country than that.

Iraq is a better country than that.

And so, if it takes a movement to kill this virus, so be it. Paris, be gone!

Posted by Jason Feifer at February 24, 2005 09:25 AM