Do the Kardashians think we're stupid?
I'm dizzy from all the spin.
I’ve been begrudgingly watching season 2 of The Kardashians and woof, is it boring. It’s so scripted that it makes me cringe and it lacks any storylines that haven’t already been in the headlines. I’ve been reeling over episode 4 for awhile now.
In general, the show is clearly overproduced and scripted. It lacks the je ne sais quoi that KUWTK had. It isn’t quirky and offers almost no insight into the things we’ve already seen play out across social media and the tabloids.
But this time, instead of serving us a HD version of months-old tea, they actually tried to completely rewrite history by leaving a very important element out of the episode about Kim’s infamous ‘Get Your Ass Up And Work” Variety interview.
The scene shows the sisters getting glammed up for the interview and settling into their spots as the interview begins. When asked the question, “What advice do you have for women in business?” (or something like that anyway) both Khloe and Kourtney give basic, unremarkable advice. There is a beat before Kimberly pipes up saying, “I have the best advice for women in business.” Another pregnant pause. “Get your ass up and work.” THE. END.
They cut out the second half of that comment, which was arguably the more offensive tidbit: “Nobody wants to work these days.”
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This was particularly tone deaf considering the demographic in question was women. Let’s look at the facts: Last year, 60% of all college students were female. Despite this, women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man earns. In addition, according to Bloomberg, “Women spend 47 minutes more on housework on average than men each day, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That adds up to roughly 5 ½ hours each week, and that’s not including childcare, grocery shopping or errands, which the BLS classifies in other categories and of which women also do far more.”
Obviously, it’s not a good look for anyone to tell American women to work more, but especially not the very person who invented being famous for being famous, who has a large team that is rumored to make very little.
I’m curious about this editing choice. In my opinion, this boils down to one of two scenarios: Either this was an editing choice to stir up buzz like this very newsletter and I got got, or the KJ Klan is attempting to convince us that it was all just a trivial misunderstanding.
If the latter is true, it begs the question: Do they think that we’re stupid? Do they think our attention spans are so short that they could warp our memory?
This goes back to my point on my last thinkpiece on this fam. They’ve completely lost touch with their audience and honestly, reality; which is kind of an important skill when you’re reality TV stars.
Since Variety has already spoken out about her trying to take the “out of context” approach, I wonder if they’ll address this tampered-with evidence. Time will tell…