Well, thanks for that. I said in my comment that I don't really agree with the crude phrasing Perez uses here. And I'm not saying that she's faking it to get attention. So no, Adam Lambert pretending to be gay for attention is not the same thing. I absolutely do not think people with mental illness should be made fun of, which is why I have a problem with this, not because people who say they have mental illness are lying or something ridiculous like that. She may very well have her issues with cluttered cabinets. But for people who have to get serious help to deal with OCD and other like things, it seems a little inconsiderate to undermine that by possibly overemphasizing a not very serious problem and calling it OCD. I am no expert here people, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone who deals with problems, mental or physical, which affect them in a profound way.
I'm actually kind of on Perez' side in this case. Well, not completely because the phrasing he used here is not very nice at all. I think the point he was possibly trying to make is that these stars are overemphasizing minor issues to look more interesting than they are. I cannot tell you how many people I know who say they have OCD because of some really minor thing that they need to be ordered. If I were to use the same logic I could say I myself have OCD, which is absolutely not true.
I don't know though. Rereading it Perez comes off very harsh. All I know is that celebrities have been known to overemphasize their trials and tribulations so that we don't look at them like they're living on easy street. But for someone whose life is very seriously affected by OCD or any other mental condition, it isn't fair to put these things out there and make it seem like less of a problem than it actually is.
How does one travel the world five times when they've only been famous five minutes? Does she consider going to England and Japan, staying in ritzy hotels and putting on horrendous performances for two days, "traveling the world"? I won't challenge her claim to be a better songwriter, though. That bar is so low she'd have to try extra hard to be a worse one.
Why is everyone acting like he's a hypocrite? I would say that if two men have sex and they have both tested clean, they don't need a condom to have safe sex. Obviously there's no risk of pregnancy. I don't know if that's the case here, but let's not attack the guy for being an awful person and having unprotected, random sex with some guy he picked up off the street.
Obviously comedians get away with a lot of pretty vicious stuff. That being said, I don't really see Jamie Foxx as a "comedian". He isn't funny. And this certainly wasn't. He should stick to acting. Just because you think you are funny doesn't mean you can say rude unfunny things and then say "I'm a comedian." Just like Katy Perry did.
Also, calling Billy Ray Cyrus a liar for this is like calling Jennifer Aniston a liar for saying she made an Obama cake and not mentioning John Mayer. What huge liars.
I don't know though. Rereading it Perez comes off very harsh. All I know is that celebrities have been known to overemphasize their trials and tribulations so that we don't look at them like they're living on easy street. But for someone whose life is very seriously affected by OCD or any other mental condition, it isn't fair to put these things out there and make it seem like less of a problem than it actually is.
Also, calling Billy Ray Cyrus a liar for this is like calling Jennifer Aniston a liar for saying she made an Obama cake and not mentioning John Mayer. What huge liars.