It’s time for Monday Listicles hosted by the beautiful
Stasha at The Good Life. This week’s
topic, 10 Reasons Why Celebrities Are Just Like Us, provided me with a much
needed break from searching for research on the causes of child sexual abuse (no
joke...I have become completely
preoccupied with Child Abuse Awareness Month and I found some interesting
answers). Looking up things that make
celebrities akin to the common folk wasn’t much less depressing. However, one interesting factoid I found was
that the reason we fall into the state of celebrity worship is that we desire
status:
"Status is a critically important survival property in social animals like humans. Status assures us our place in the "pecking order," which determines when we eat, with whom we sleep and mate, as well as who we can rely upon for protection and friendship. In fact there is no complex feature amongst social animals more important than status. That is why people will fight and even kill almost without hesitation to retain and preserve their status."
The article went on to site a study wherein when Chimpanzees were
tested, they preferred looking at pictures of the popular members in their troop
to getting a yummy snack. Put your salty chips down and gaze at the celebrities in my list.
10 Reasons Why Celebrities Are Just Like Us
1) They Blog
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| Felicity Huffman's new blog, What the Flicka? |
2) They are on Tumblr
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| Lady Gaga, Amen Fashion |
3) They Instagram
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| Jessica Alba on Instagram |
4) They Tweet
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| Steve Martin on Twitter |
5) They Use Facebook
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| Yoko Ono on Facebook |
6) They Eat
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| Tom Cruise Eating |
7) They Make Babies
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| Vanessa Minello and Nick Lachey are pregnant |
8) They Sleep
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| 10 Celebrities Who Love Their Sleep |
9) They Use the Toilet
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| Celebrity Bathroom |
10) They Die
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| Celebrity Death List |
So simple but SO true!!!!
ReplyDeleteI will take chips over photos of the popular members of my pack any day. And for chocolate I will give up gossip altogether. Clearly I am not much of a Chimpanzee...
ReplyDeleteWhat a great list. I must say they are not nearly as great at blogging as we are. Just saying ;)
You are one of the most farthest-from-a-Chimp human that I know;) agreed, celeb bloging seems a bit contrived to suit the common man. . . until one does Monday Listicles ;)
DeleteI've never thought of reading a celebrity blog...hmm...maybe I should.
ReplyDeletewell, okay, I actually sort of love felicity huffman and think that she & william macy are pretty much really cool. but mostly I love that we are all like celebrities b/c we all die. that cracks me up; I'm not sure why.
ReplyDeleteI sort of love Felicity Huffman, too, and think her blog is relatively new, and will probably check it out. Yes, no matter our status, we are the same in the end. ;)
DeleteWhoa, wait a minute, stop the presses! TOM CRUISE EATS? WTF? News flash!
ReplyDeleteAnd STEVE MARTIN'S on Twitter? I've got to follow him! (-:
The one of Tom Cruise made me laugh because of the caption. Simplicity is the best. And I'm going to go add the child abuse awareness link to our list. Can't believe I forgot to do that. Linking your site to it also, since you have done the research for us all. Ellen
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about Felicity Hoffman's blog! I love her & Macy (especially after rediscovering him on Shameless). Great list, Kimberly and I imagine the light and fluffiness of celebrity must have been a great break from child abuse.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Jackie!
Deleteoh my goodness, I loved your list. It was interesting , entertaining and gave me lots of people to follow ;)
ReplyDeleteI have checked out some celebrity blogs, but I agree with Stasha...I think we do it best.
ReplyDeletebut what amazes me is how many celebs will actually retweet, or reply to a tweet.
So true...while there are lots of differences in lifestlye at times in the end we are just people and all the same :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome awesome list, except I refuse to die. I want to torture my children and grandchildren like the hill my mom is headed down now.
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They use the toilet... I know that's right! Hilarious picture!
ReplyDeletePictures over food??? Silly chimps. Love your list, 9 made me lol and 10 the great equalizer.
ReplyDeleteyou should have used ochocinco's twitter pic ;)
ReplyDeleteSome celebrities have really great blogs. Though the only ones I really follow are famous writers. Makes sense that they would be entertaining to read. Eat and sleep. They probably do less of eating and more of sleeping than they let on.
ReplyDeleteI love your list and especially the information you found about why status is so desired and important to people, makes a lot of sense actually. I have not checked out too many celeb blogs but I do admit I'm always curious about other people's pregnancies and will totally check out the big, famous bellies :) Great list!
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