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Celeb News: Why Kim K Matters
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In 1911, former President Theodore Roosevelt became the first in a long line of distinguished speakers to appear at The Commonwealth Club.
More than 100 years later, how does the San Francisco-based club continue its tradition of hosting the best and brightest to discuss matters of pressing public concern?
By welcoming Kim Kardashian West. She'll be at Oakland's Paramount Theatre on June 30 to chat about her new book of selfies, amusingly titled "Selfish."
OK, everyone take a breath, because yes, you read that right. Kardashian, the tabloid regular and high priestess of shameless self-promotion, is coming to Oakland to speak in the kind of public forum typically associated with heads of state, captains of industry and visionaries in science, arts and humanitarian causes.
She'll talk about things she knows best: herself, of course, as well as social media stardom, sexuality in the media, and the business of becoming incredibly famous in the 21st century.
And, as hard as it is for many to believe, her appearance at a Commonwealth Club event actually makes some sense -- that is, if you've been following Kardashian's stratospheric rise to global fame and wealth over the past decade.
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But 10 years ago, who had ever heard of her? In the early 2000s, she was minimally known as one of the three socialite daughters of the late O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Kardashian. Soon, Kardashian began showing up in the tabloids as Paris Hilton's sidekick. But it wasn't long before Kardashian made a name for herself with -- what else? -- a sex tape!
With her mother and sisters, she parlayed the sex tape notoriety into a reality TV show empire that has lasted 10 seasons, expanded into fashion lines, gaming apps and a hard-to-deny genius at self-promotion in the social media age.
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Consider the coverage that accompanied her family's recent visit to her father's ancestral homeland, Armenia. She gained more headlines than Pope Francis in calling attention to the Armenian genocide of 1915 under the Ottoman Empire. When was the last time a worldwide audience paid attention to this 100-year-old humanitarian tragedy?
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"You win, Kim Kardashian," The Atlantic declared.
Slate senior editor Laura Bennett called "Selfish" "an insane project, a document of mind-blowing vanity and deranged perseverance." Yet Bennett said she couldn't recommend it enough: —‰'Selfish' comes to feel almost like a modern parable for the anyone-can-be-famous age."
Poet and critic Sam Riviere went further in an essay in The Telegraph. He hailed Kardashian as a feminist artist who belongs alongside the Brontes, Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf. He pointed out that, throughout the history of Western art, men have controlled how women are represented in painting, literature, photography and film. Kardashian is upending those conventions, Riviere said: "Kardashian's genuine achievement may be that she has become a singularly successful producer and owner of her own image and her image alone."
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I'm over this glorifying of Kim. Like I actually like her, but to try and say she's powerful and smart etc. for being famous, pretty and having her mum as a good manager is a biT much. 
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Originally posted by Reinvention
I'm over this glorifying of Kim. Like I actually like her, but to try and say she's powerful and smart etc. for being famous, pretty and having her mum as a good manager is a biT much. |
Yes, her mum is a good manger, but we all can't lie she is a good business woman, and one of the most well known celebrities in the world. Even before she married Kanye! She has heaps of people checking what she wears, and following her around. It's not us over glorifying Kimberly, it's the whole GP. Kim has been in the Spotlight for nine years, quickly rising up getting bigger and bigger. So she will be over glorified for a while. Kim Kardashian West with her rich family, rich husband, and amazingly perfect looking children, are here to stay in the spotlight. 
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She's obviously one of the smartest business women in the world currently, if you're talking about her, it's all part of her job lol.
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Everything she does turn into this huge commotion. She has had many huge impacts in this generation.
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Originally posted by Reinvention
I'm over this glorifying of Kim. Like I actually like her, but to try and say she's powerful and smart etc. for being famous, pretty and having her mum as a good manager is a biT much. |
this
like she's great I guess and has done very well for herself but there really isn't much to be praised about her.........
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queen 
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Non-event of an existence.
Cute face, kid, and choice in men though! 
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Originally posted by Reinvention
I'm over this glorifying of Kim. Like I actually like her, but to try and say she's powerful and smart etc. for being famous, pretty and having her mum as a good manager is a biT much. |
This, it's ridiculous and I don't even hate her
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She has a big butt and a sex tape, that's all.
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Not reading all of that. You should bold the important parts.
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This reads like some terrible writing assignment you're trying to make the most of. She matters cause she's the biggest fashion/sex icon of our time
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You don't even need to prove this to anyone anymore. She's been a huge celebrity and one of the most famous women in the world for 6 years now 
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She has a big butt and a sex tape, that's all.
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Originally posted by Reinvention
I'm over this glorifying of Kim. Like I actually like her, but to try and say she's powerful and smart etc. for being famous, pretty and having her mum as a good manager is a biT much. |
the fact she made all those millions of coins just for having sex once, like gurl sign me the **** up!
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