Douglas and Michaels

Do you agree with their assertion that "these celeb biographies" are "increasingly presented as instruction manuals for how the rest of us should live our lives" ? It seems ridiculous to me that anyone would adopt celebrities, who lead completely different lives than themselves, as their preferred role models. Especially when it comes to the subject of motherhood.

They go on to say that "these stories are hardly reassuring. They make the rest of us feel that our own lives are, as the great seventeenth century philosopher Thomas Hobbes put it, nasty, brutish, and short."

If so, then why would anyone ever actively consume a piece of media that would make them feel this way?

Do you find the idea of "canonizing celebrity moms," while at the same time "demonizing welfare moms," as ridiculous as I do?

Who would you guess works harder to raise their children the majority of the time?