Carrie Prejean - Drama Queen

It pains me to write about Carrie Prejean, the Drama Queen, and extend her 15 minutes of fame.  But she is in the news, and as ignorant and narcissistic as she is, she's also entertaining.

On one hand, I understand where she is coming from because I, myself, was not for gay marriage at one point.  The concept didn't even come up until I went to college.  And then, most of my friends and people I knew were for it, but I couldn't reconcile the idea in my head.  Like most people, I had grown up with the idea that the term "marriage" was for a man and woman.  Let the gay people have all the rights they wanted, but the term "marriage" could not be theirs.  It just wasn't right.  That's what I thought and no one tried to convince me otherwise.  After a time, however, for whatever reason -- becoming more open to new ideas, I guess -- I became ok with gay marriage, even thinking it was a good idea.  The idea takes some getting used to but once you get used to it, you're fine with it.  I think that's what gay marriage advocates need to realize.  What they need to do is to get people used to the idea first, and then, and only then, will people be ok with allowing a law for it.  If you try to force people, they'll resist and fight harder and more passionately just to resist you.  They'll label you as "wrong" and any fight with them will be an uphill battle.

Going back to Carrie Prejean -- her problem is that she's not a good role model.  She has no credibility.  If she had just said her piece at the pageant, lost, and let it go saying that she believed in "opposite sex marriage" and that's why she said what she said, things would have blown over.  But she had to go out and rile gay marriage advocates by giving speeches in favor of traditional marriage.  So then everyone against her dug up all this dirt on her - and there was a lot of dirt to be had - and it turned out what with the boob job, semi-nude photos, and sex tape that Carrie was not as it were a good role model.  To be able to preach morality effectively, one has got to be oneself above reproach.  And she definitely is not.

The other problem with her is that she's a hypocrite; just as Meredith Vieira pointed out on GMA.  She says one thing and does another.  She says in her book that one shouldn't try to get attention by showing skin, but she shows her breasts in photos and she sends her boyfriend a sex tape of herself.  It is apparent that she thinks that whatever she does is good, but that anyone else who does the same thing is not.  I think the most telling evidence of her mindset is her reaction when the lawyers for the California pageant showed her the sex tape of herself.  When she first saw it, she said, "That's disgusting," until the camera panned to show her face, and she realized it was her.  Like I said, in her eyes, if someone else does it they're disgusting.  But when she does it, she has a good reason.  That's another problem with trying to be holier-than-thou; it's too easy to prove you're not.

In her interview with Larry King, you can see how immature she is when she refuses to speak when Larry asks her a question she doesn't like, and then refuses to respond at all for a few minutes on live television.  Can you say 'Drama Queen'?  And then she tells Meredith Vieira that people are trying to silence her, and whatever happened to free speech?  She should be able to speak her mind.  And in the same sentence, she whines that people are calling her all these terrible names and it isn't right.  Well, you should know something, lady:  Calling you terrible names is also a facet of free speech.  You say something they don't like; they say something you don't like -- that's the nature of free speech.

In any case, it seems that some of those organizations that used to solicit her presence are now abandoning her.  It's a good move considering girls with sex tapes generally lose their respectability and ability to preach moral values.