Don't worry, Yero, it's all good, I wasn't necessarily being critical
of you, there are, in fact, a good many women who will do anything to
"be" with a celebrity/politician/famous person, they're called
groupies/golddiggers, etc.

Is this entirely common to America, though?  How do, say for example,
other countries treat their celebrities?

I, persoanlly, try to look at celebrities as human, I mean, they are,
they will be standing on yaum al qiyama just like you and I, and their
celebrity in this life won't help them in the least, except fromthe
good they did with it.

I think when you put it in that perspective, then that takes out the
drive to idolize someone.  And from an Islamic perspective, one must
be careful as far as "idolizing" people goes, as well as being careful
who one looks up to/keeps company with/takes their knowledge/wisdom
from.

At any rate, just wanted to say, you're right in the general sense,
but not all women American wise, are like that, and perhaps I hang out
with a different crowd of people.  But I just don't know any women in
my circle that would throw themselves at someone just because they're
famous.

Ginny



On 8/10/08, Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sis Ginny,
>
> I apologise for the general statement I made earlier. I think that I was
> reacting on impulse for the simple fact that this film maker has succeeded
> in sending Edwards packing his political baggage. I find it hard to swallow
> because it is burning the walls of my thraot. I only meant to say a portion
> of celebrities. Please accept my apologies and to any other person I might
> has offended with my thread you quoted above. I came to realize, I erred
> greatly by my utterance of it, especially the manner of generalization.
>
> Sincerely Yours,
> YJ
>
>
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> Re: Has the Edwards finally stumbled?‏‏
> From: 	Ginny Quick ([log in to unmask])
> Sent: 	Sun 8/10/08 8:50 AM
> Reply-to: 	The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ([log in to unmask])
> To: 	[log in to unmask]
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> "It is a known fact that our women in the US are too much into
> celebrity recognition. They will do everything, including having
> affairs with Senators, governors
> and presidential hopefuls inorder to get their names out in the media.
>  Matter of fact, their intentions might have nothing to do with
> tarnishing the likes
> of Edwards. Man is obviously created weak."
>
> While this may be true (though I personally don't know any woman who
> would engage in such behavior because of some celebrity), I don't
> think it's necessarily limited to American women.
>
> We do, however, in this country anyway (can't speak for anyone else),
> do put celebrities on pedestals, and we do anything we can to get the
> scoop on their private affairs, i.e., who they're dating, where they
> went yesterday, they can't even shop, go to the club, probably even
> use the bathroom without someone reporting it.
>
> When I was a kid, I wanted to be a singer, still like to sing (though
> now I'm too embarrassed to sing in front of people), but as I got
> older, I wasn't sure if firstly, I'd have the, how do I say it,
> looks/stamina/whatever it took to break into the busienss, and
> secondly, I wasn't sure if I could handle the whole world in my
> business.  However, my life took another turn, and I ended up doing
> other things.
>
> But anyway, we have a bad problem in this country of idolizing
> celebrities/artists, when we really should be looking up to people
> such as teachers, community leaders, and people that are actually
> doing good, and not say artists, for example, who are, in many cases,
> are fake to the core, all you see is the image they put out, and we
> don't even know the real person anyway, so people are idolizing
> somethign not comletely real anyway.
>
> Anyway, I'm kind of digressing fromt he original topic anyway, so I'll
> stop here.
>
> Ginny
>
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