This week’s Everyday Dilemma is from Alicia. She says she tries not to gossip at all about friends and family because she believes it’s hurtful if the person ever finds out they were being talked about. BUT on the other hand she finds it very hard to avoid reading celebrity gossip, and even enjoys it. Every time she reads the daily news online she’s bombarded with tempting morsels of celebrity gossip: who’s been seen where, who’s wearing what, who’s in jail, who’s having a baby, who’s bought a new house, who’s broken up with who and been spotted with someone else…. Alicia can’t reconcile her attempts to not gossip about people in her immediate world – with her willingness to partake in celebrity gossip. She wants to know if it’s OK to have two different standards for two different sets of people – people in her life, and people in Hollywood.
Do you think there’s an imbalance? Do we have different standards for people in our immediate world and people we don’t know? Does this even matter? Should she stop reading celebrity gossip, or is celebrity gossip just harmless fun?
