If you were a pseudo-celebrity would keeping your name and face out in public be worth airing your dirty laundry?

If it made me millions like it is going to for her….Nope. Not worth it. I prefer my dirty little secrets stay secret.

Apparantly it is worth it. That ploy is working for her mom – who must be so proud. (Prouder than if her daughter went to Harvard and graduated at the top of her class.)
There are lot of examples. Elliott Spitzer got a TV show. I’m betting Lee and Weiner will soon be advice columnists.

Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Nah, wrap me in glorious anony….anonim…...oh, you know!

The thing about being Bristol Palin is that she’s not even a celebrity for her own sake. At least Paris Hilton is personally benefitting from her public embarrassments. In the case of Miss Palin, however, it is all for her mother’s career. I feel bad for the way she is being used, and I worry we’ll end up with a much different kind of tell-all book from her in 15 years or so. However ridiculous she may appear to the public sometimes, Bristol Palin is in a pitiable position.

In general, though, pseudo-celebrities simply have no choice but to fade into obscurity or keep airing their dirty laundry. They’re not famous for anything unlike the actors or musicians who get followed around even if there’s nothing to put them in the news. It’s a bizarre kind of life, and I don’t think I’d want to live it.

I think this is such a personal question that we can make no generalizations about it. What kind of people seek publicity? It is a way of seeking status and humans were made to try to be high up in status.

It seems like some people want status more than others. Perhaps it runs in families. In any case, if Bristol’s mother isn’t afraid to look like a fool, then why should her mother’s daughter?

I’m sure a lot of people are interested in the moral implications of all this. How could a righteous mother bring up a daughter who is a tramp? I don’t personally think she’s a tramp, but I imagine that’s how fundamentalist Christians might see it. What kind of parent is Sarah? Does she really believe what she says she believes? Is she an absentee mom?

On Bristol’s side there are similar questions. Was she aggressively going after the boy or did he come after her or was it equal? Why didn’t she use birth control? Does she not believe in it? Was she not educated about what sex leads to? Was she in the “just say no” camp? If so, why didn’t she say “no?”

Then there’s motivation. Does she want to remain in the public eye? Does she want the money? Does she want the notoriety? Is she just stupid?

I can’t believe Sarah would be happy about this. Then again, who knows? Maybe this qualifies Bristol to be Governator. Or is it Governore?

These days, so many people seem to be willing to bare their behinds sex lives to the public. There’s a full moon every night, it seems. But the Warholian fame doesn’t last all that long, so maybe it’s for the press clippings. Bristol can show her young child all the press she got when the child was a baby. What a legacy!

Pardon me while I turn down the volume on the TV. Oh wait. I’m not watching TV. How pathetic. I get news like this on fluther!

It’s a trick question: if I were a bona fide celebrity, say a musician – then no.

If I were simply a pseudo-celebrity, like Paris Hilton or your example of Bristol Palin, people famous for being famous, I might.

But then, I wouldn’t choose to be one.

I would never choose public spotlight to raise a child in. Period. I don’t care what amount of money would be thrown my way.