Comments on: There’s Something About Being a Famewhore

By: abiola

abiola — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 01:10:25 +0000

i think you are cool you are thew best better than the rest i think you are gourgesse i am on 15 year old and i am a girl my brother weould love;s to gfo out with yopu alot i wish i could see you for real life am gonna b famouse one day girl see your in da feathure e mail me please

By: Aimee

Aimee — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:12:14 +0000

I think you’re confusing “loving” with “lying,” alissa. Isn’t the fact that Miriam is allowing herself to be used as a gigantic joke against straight men, and the fact that she will happily conceal the truth about herself from men who are under the impression she is a heterosexual female-born girl rather than a pre-op transsexual, part of the whole point of what she is doing? Sure, it’s at the expense of guys, first in the original show and then in Big Brother, but the reason it’s meant to be such a shock and so horrific - and hence, so watchable for the audience - is that, like, she’s totally, like, a DUDE, man! I certainly don’t think that the aim of Miriam’s famewhoring is to bring attention to the issues and challenges faced by transsexuals (of which there are many quite serious ones), and that was a point I was making in the original entry. As a further note, I’m not sure how a loving heart could be “more” than any human could want as a possession. I’m given to understand that love, the giving as well as the receiving (or is that deceiving?) is kind of important to most of the human race.

I’m also not convinced that Dawei is a big ol’ racist, either, mainly because I’m not convinced that saying someone of a different racial or ethnic background to yourself is boring is actually a racial slur.

By: alissa

alissa — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:57:09 +0000

Miriam is one of us, a human, there is no need to down grade her at all, and the other comment posted by “DAWEI” regarding her English speaking skills, i would like to see you learn another language, and not only speak it with fluency but also read it and write it as well as Miriam has! I think i have made my point to a racist! Another note, at least Miriam has a loving heart and that is more than any human could want to have as a possesion.

By: momo

momo — Fri, 21 May 2004 20:12:44 +0000

Sorry, that was so kookily punctuated, I’m not sure it makes sense …

By: momo

momo — Fri, 21 May 2004 20:11:51 +0000

I watch it, but I don’t know if it sits very comfortably with me, I kind of cringe. I mean, the “joke” is on the guys, obviously, but the whole premise being that Miriam is a “freak” - and the, we assume, very negative, reactions she will get from the men once they find out - isn’t exactly good for her, either. Bit nasty, really.

By: Dawei

Dawei — Sun, 16 May 2004 22:18:30 +0000

But Miriam herself is SUCH a dick. She’s so boring! Couldn’t they have gotten a tranny who speaks English?

By: Ruth

Ruth — Fri, 14 May 2004 03:16:47 +0000

Meanwhile, the show IS hilarious. Well, not the show itself, I guess, but the guys are such common, lad types, that you KNOW they’re going to have total breakdowns when they find out they’ve been macking with a man. And I, for one, will be watching it.

By: El

El — Tue, 11 May 2004 21:21:29 +0000

Scott, you just made me almost laugh coffee out my nose - that would not have been pretty…much like the scene when Miriam reveals her true identity…

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 11 May 2004 19:22:27 +0000

I think you are being overly presumtuous. I have never told the object of my affection that I have a penis. Does that make me a bad person? And oh sure I’ve had one or two surprised glares meet the flashing of my naughty bits when I hiked up the old skirt, but I…well I think I’ve said too much.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Tue, 11 May 2004 18:49:02 +0000

Oh don’t tell me you didn’t find that touching, Sam. Touching like Uncle Albert!