Meaning of Kardashianization | Babel Free

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The process of making or becoming like the Kardashian family or their products or self-promotion.

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“Mock the gossip-monger for his or her obsession with celebrity in supermarket’s magazine aisle, but what we witnessed last week was the Kardashianization of our sports-news cycle, swallowed as it was by Scorn’d Sports Consumer.”

“Merida, the sweet, independent princess from “Brave,” will officially join the Disney Princess Royal Court on Saturday. Translation from Disney-speak: Merida is about to get her glam on. Off-the-shoulder gown. Eyeliner. Lipstick. Wild red curls tamed into voluminous sexy locks. A coy expression enhanced by her new, fuller lips. This is the Kardashian-ization of the Disney Princess.”

“The U.S. now wheezes beneath the crushing weight of lawsuits, environmental impact reports, diversity consultants, a $17 trillion national debt, entitlement proliferation, lethargic economic growth, the lowest labor-participation rate since 1979, relentless Twitter distractions, and the mind-dissolving effects of Kardashianization.”

“But [Minnie] Driver’s still wary of what she calls the “Kardashianization” of children of the famous, of putting them in magazine spreads and on reality shows, of using them to promote films and clothing lines.”

“With America in it's waning days, as total economic collapse nears, America is focused on Bruce Jenner's cover photo on Vanity Fair. It is the Kardashianization of America, as California runs out of water, the Kardashians can not be shamed into turning off their sprinklers on their palatial green landscapes.”

“"They inaugurated the era of cheesy celebrity obsession which pertains today," he says. "There is lineage from them to the Kardashianisation not only of the music industry, but the wider culture."”

“Sound Minnesota values and research for books such as “Girls & Sex” don’t make bestselling author Peggy Orenstein a fan of the impact the Kardashians have had on society. “Kim [Kardashian] gets fame and money in exchange for selling her sex appeal without changing a system that urges girls from an early age to view their bodies as projects to be constantly monitored and improved, a system that requires women in the public eye to be ‘hot’ in order to get ahead or even have a voice — whether they’re actors, singers, athletes, newscasters, lawyers, politicians, whether they are 15 or 65,” said Orenstein.[…]I was noticing that girls are marketed to from the earliest ages. What they learn in that marketing through the princess industrial complex and into the Kardashianization of girlhood is that how they look is more important than who they are.[…]In my most recent book, “Girls & Sex,” I write about how girls learn that self-absorption is the same as self-confidence. It means self-confidence is the same thing as being narcissistic. That’s the essence of the Kardashianization of girlhood.”

“With honest political reporting off the menu, the networks gloried in bold and hard-hitting takes on pop culture. The Kardashianization of America was complete.”

“Search in Instagram: in the lower classes you find a false beauty, which is what I call Kardashianization.”

“Don’t write this off simply as the Kardashianization of America or the continued descent into social nihilism. We’ve always had events like this in South Florida.”

“The first, “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” had big points to make about mass media, the seed that grew into the Kardashian-ization of America, and the sexism directed at prosecutor Marcia Clark.”

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