In the new doc 'This Is Paris,' Paris Hilton tries to recast herself as an advocate. It doesn't exactly work
correctly points out that coverage of her sex tape, which was released without her consent, was outrageously priggish and misogynistic. “They made me the bad person, like I did something bad,” a visibly emotional Hilton says of the media coverage at the time, saying the release of the tape felt like being “electronically raped.
In the documentary, Hilton appears visibly shaken when she recounts such events, about which she says she has recurring nightmares; at the end of the film, she meets with fellow Provo students, who join her to shoot a #BreakCodeSilence anti-abuse campaign.
Our misogynistic culture demands that all female survivors of abuse behave like “perfect” victims. Hilton does not fall into that category, nor does she need to. Butappears to cynically posit that Hilton’s suffering can serve as a springboard for her to remake herself as professional advocate, and one wonders whether she is the best person to serve in that role.
In recent years, the archetype of the #girlboss, or the self-made female entrepreneur, has risen to prominence, with female CEOs like Nasty Gal’s Sophia Amoroso and celebrities like Kim Kardashian being hailed in the media as millennial female-empowerment icons simply by virtue of their financial success.
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