I’m wondering about myself and why it is that The Kylie Show irritates and entertains me so much !
Here it is; She’s the worst kind of hypocrite, berating those who don’t make the effort to learn about the culture, while she misrepresents the same culture she purports to love and exploits the fantasies and ignorance of those who don’t know enough to realize she is lying.
She seems to be a narcissist, changing her colours to suit for the purpose of exploitation, whether it be for donations, patrons, gifts, rents, whatever. It’s all about her, never about anyone else.
She carries with her the worst of millennial culture of grievance, entitlement, poor me ism, privilege, while pleading poverty, playing up the child into adulthood, acting like it doesn’t matter.
She does injustice to the struggles of real Italians and lovers of this country, like me, who see and live the difficulties and absurdities every day, but still persist with the possibilities of being here.
She creates this lie without regard to the consequences for those who might follow her advice, whether arriving in this country thinking you have to speak perfect Italian to order a coffee, that Italians are a polite people in the english sense, taking on a restaurant/event space during lockdown and shutdown, sitting out in the sun for dinner during a scorching summer.
For anyone who knows and loves Italy and juxtaposes her self serving fantasies with their own both difficult and hard won joyous experiences, it is an insult.
The entertainment is from watching someone make a fool of themselves while they think they are making a fool of you.
Thank goodness for this forum to find other like minded individuals and for the opportunity to express this and to share.
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@emm, thanks for starting this thread in the first place and please find a few more below!
- presenting a consistently false and Disneyfied view of Italy especially under Covid
Alessandro, I wrote and posted my comments below before I saw your post just now. We’re thinking along the same lines !
Add this;
She appropriates a culture for her own purposes.
She censors and blocks the free expression of others who do not duplicate the fawning commentary she allows.
She infantilizes a topic that could be rich in exchange and expression.
The comment was more than respectful and her reply to Kylie was too. If it were me I'd have told her to eff off back to her dreamland estate while many were locked in tiny apartments, many not working, while all her bills were paid by her lover of the year.
Also like @Alessandro said there is such a disconnect between Kylie’s bubble of privilege and what most Italians are suffering through Covid and financial disaster. That comment by Mimmi was totally fair and Kylie’s response was so unpleasant and aggressive - but she bullies anyone that dares to question her. The disparity between her narcissistic real self and the fake nice one she tries to portray in her videos plus the real Italy and her fantasy of it - that’s why we are all here on this forum
