Oh look, another Perez Hilton bashing Rumer, here is the history of his bashing Perez Hilton on Rumer Willis. Doesn’t he get like 12 million views per day from around the world? I’m really glad he’s helping build the self-esteems of women and our girls. Just write a quick comment below, and maybe we can generate enough interest to get him to stop! (send this to a friend, we are a newish blog, I don’t have the power to do this without some grassroots help)
Perez Hilton writes: 
“Can’t she get that fixed???
Rumer Willis, aspiring “actress”, attended the 2008 Crystal Lucy Women in Film Awards in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
Seriously, isn’t there surgery where you can shave down your jaw???
We’re sure some trannys have gotten it done to make themselves look more “feminine.”
Plastic surgery is not always a bad thing.
Rumer should look into it!
And, while she’s there, she might wanna get her nose done too!”
Photo via: Perez Hilton
21 responses so far ↓
Erica // June 18, 2008 at 7:54 am |
Time to drop it Perez, it isn’t funny this is seriously wrong!
Timw // June 18, 2008 at 8:00 am |
Perez has gone way too far. People should boycott both his website and the companies that sponsor it until he apologizes and backs off.
MarkH. // June 18, 2008 at 8:20 am |
Not cool Perez! This needs to stop.
Kaydee // June 18, 2008 at 10:29 am |
Here’s what Perez thinks about his fans and the people who don’t like what he’s saying about Rumer.
Read the comment Perez puts in his own attack on Rumer Willis today. He’s such an idiot.
PEREZ says – reply to this 259PEREZ SAYS
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Okay I don’t often post in my own comments section, but I have to reply to all these criticisms.
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You guys come here to read scuttlebutt. You come here to read my nasty, small-minded, mean-spirited, celebrity-trashing posts, because YOU LOVE IT.
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I’m just giving you what you want.
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If you don’t like it – hey! Don’t read my site! I don’t care! Plenty more suckers where you came from.
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I’ll carry on just as before. Just thought I’d let you know.
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Love P-Nasty xxxx
I think that you might have your heart in the right place, but ultimately, you’re just going to drive more people to his site to see, “Does he really post things like that?” His hits go up, he goes to the adertisers and demands that they pay him more for space on his site, and they will. You’re putting money in his pocket by complaining.
People call him names, but ultimately, he’s just a soulless capitalist. He has no care about anything, but making money any way he can. He’s found a way to do that, and he’s going to ride that train until it runs off the track, and it will eventually. Until then, I think everyone should stay off his site, (including me) even though it’s hard. I have really let myself get very upset by his hateful posts, but in the end, the only one he’s hurting is himself. He’s not dating anyone, he has no real friends, and he really is the most hated queen in Hollywood as he loves to claim.
How can I claim that he’s dateless and friendless? Well, we know Perez, he’d be braggin’ about whoever he was dating with and really hanging with. He got his first and probably last kiss of his life, he claims, from John Mayer, during some drunken prank, most likely, and he acts like Prince William asked him to be his wife.
Now that’s sad. Really. I guess he can count on his mama, his sister, and Teddy, the dog.
But believe me, he’s laughing all the way to the bank and I don’t believe any campaign will stop him. He’s found a way to make thousands of dollars a week with very litte effort, so why would he stop? That’s all he cares about. Money money money.
The companies that sponsor him, for the most part, are none I trade with to begin with, and I’ve never seen anything on his site I’ve wanted to buy. Unfortunately, other people have made purchases after clicking through his site, and they’ll continue to do so because so many people have a mean streak, just like him, and they can’t wait to see who he’s bashing next.
Sad.
Kaydee // June 18, 2008 at 10:34 am |
Oops. I made a typo. I meant “…very little effort.”
Megan // June 18, 2008 at 10:52 am |
I totally agree with you that by posting this, I’m drawing attention to him, more money and hits for him, and I’m okay with that. I’m okay with this because as an adult it is my responsibility to have a voice when I believe someone’s actions are harmful to others. I see his trash often, I enjoy his trash and I’ll even keep reading his blog. But I think it is important that as a community we set standards on our trash talk – I know that sounds like an oxymoron.
Also, I think some of the reason why I finally snapped and started giving him press is I wanted to make others aware that self-esteem is so linked to our media and entertainment sources. It works for us because in a sense we can’t stop his momentum but we can teach the lesson out of the actions.
Kaydee // June 18, 2008 at 11:21 am |
I don’t like anything on his site. The only reason I ever go there is when one of my friends emails me and says, “Look what he’s saying. Can you believe it?” I don’t enjoy any of his trash talk. I’m very sensitive, and I don’t believe that old lie about “sticks and stones.”
What do you like about his trash talk? I can’t understand how anything he does is likeable.
You’re going to keep reading his trashy blog, but you think he should have standards? You want to gatekeep his site? What do you want to do, give him a list of people it’s okay for him to mock, insult, kick, deride, humilate, defame? I’m not okay with anything he posts on his site because he’s all about the lowest common denominator and he’s a lying rumor spreading hypocrite. He whines about gay teens being bullied, but he bullies gays, fat people, ugly people, everyone he can. He doesn’t give a thought to what he’s doing.
He’s just cashing the checks.
The people who need to learn that what he does is damaging to society as a whole are the ones who think he’s fantastic and can’t wait to see what he does next. I’m pretty sure that people who don’t fit with society’s ideal of how women are supposed to look already know. The media trashes women all the time. We’re all too fat or too skinny, too old, too ugly, too confident, too loose, too whorey, too much of everything.
I’m going to stay away from his site. I’m going to click away if I see an article about him, and I’m going to change the channel whenever I see him on TV. He can have your eyeballs for his clicker/counter, but he won’t have mine.
Again, I understand your heart is in the right place, but I think you’re just throwing gasoline on his hate-filled fire.
Megan // June 18, 2008 at 11:37 am |
Kaydee, I completely hear what your saying and I agree with you that I’m someone likely adding gasoline to his fire to a certain extent. But I’m also someone trying to bring awareness to the repercussions of his actions in a larger sense. And I’m hoping that maybe some of the younger readers will hear voices like mine or yours that are offering another way to see messages like what he is sending so they can be able to develop their consciousness with more than just his or related hateful perspectives.
My action to read his site is just that, but my consciousness in which I interpret the site is another. I believe it is the interpretation of our actions that holds the impact, not the act itself. Therefore, if even one young girl, woman, or any individual actually, reads perez but sees my side about thinking about the other person in the “humor” then something for me has been changed that is more important than if I read his site. Meaning if a 12 year old girl read my take on it, then found herself judging someone at school harshly because they are ugly, but then her internal dialogue tells her that person will hurt if she judges her, then she has learned an invaluable tool for the rest of her life that will carry much larger social implications, than if I simply ban perez hilton for myself.
Or maybe i’m just kidding myself?! I like your discussion you are getting me to think. You know, this also really started on feministing.com where I responded to this post by jessica . And all I’m saying is that if this stuff type of negative stuff is going to exist out there, then we need to not only identify the problem, but be willing to discuss how to cope with the issue, and I think changing this issues is way way socially deeper than reading his site or not. It is an issue of human awareness towards respect for other humans.
“Jessica,
I really think that the devaluing of each other by “ugly” standards is a fundamental flaw not only in feminism but in our culture today. Lately, I’ve been growing really exhausted with how cruel we are to one another based on beauty. Recently, I snapped over the ruthless commentary on Rumer Willis and her looks, I blogged about it here
http://sweatitout.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/rumorwillis-that-is/
I think that feminist really need to not only identify the existing misogyny, but to also offer advanced tools to learn to be more aware and less judgmental to others. We are really focused on destroying anothers self-esteem to establish our self-worth. This cycle is so prevalent and seen in most feminist issues, but I think it is bigger than just misogyny – I think it might be a lack in our spiritual (not religious) development as to what human rights truly mean. Thank you for being so willing to address these issues, it is so important!”
Kaydee // June 18, 2008 at 12:45 pm |
I don’t think I can change people. I’m just going to work on me. It sounds selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. I’m just going to work on how I treat people, how I act, what I say, what, I do, and what I think. That’s all I can do. I also need to work on how I feel about myself and how I take what other people say to me and to others.
I suppose that’s all I can do.
Megan // June 18, 2008 at 1:44 pm |
Must go with my profession, educator to think we can always learn something from everything. And even if you weren’t planning it, you’ve taught me a lot today!
lwm // June 18, 2008 at 2:29 pm |
Perez was nominated in the 2008 Bloggie awards (2008.bloggies.com) for:
Best American Weblog
Weblog of the Year
Most Humorous Weblog
Best Gossip Weblog
He WON:
Best glbt weblog (webloggers in the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered community)
He won a category of people who in our society are fighting for acceptance and equality. How hypocritical are we? This was all by popular nomination and vote via the internet. I stopped reading Perez after he crossed my personal line between humorous and trashy, belittling, and mean. He can be funny and witty but I won’t read (even links to his pages from other blogs) because the humor stops for me when a person is disgustingly and blatantly trashy in an increasingly popular and influential forum, all for personal gain. I don’t respect that at all.
Kaydee // June 18, 2008 at 2:58 pm |
He won? How horrible. I think it’s meaningless because it just means that his mean fans or people who work for him had the time to vote.
He contributes nothing to society. Is he an example of a gay man who’s found success and notoriety blogging? Absolutely. If the news stories are correct, he makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year now. I hope the IRS is keeping an eye on him. Anyway. If that’s the standard for giving him an award, than bless him, he earned it.
But if the award was for breaking down barriers of hate within the glbt community and between the glbt community and the rest of the world, he shouldn’t have won because he comes across as self-loathing. Also, he seems to delight in wrecking the lives of other gays and lesbians, especially because he wants to choose how they live their lives. His mission to *out* people is disgusting. People have the right to live their lives however they choose, in the closet or out. He doesn’t have any right to drag them out and claim he’s doing them and society a big favor.
Why does he do this? Why?
Also, he’s just a bully, plain and simple. He bullies everyone. He decries bullying of gay youth in America, and he posts links to horrific stories about gays being bashed or murdered simply because they’re gay, and he says, “This makes us sad,” or “Why can’t we just get along?” But he’s the biggest bully out there. I think youthful gays in middle school or high school would view his treatment of gays and lesbians with terrible fear. He shows them that they don’t just have to worry about being bashed by their peers at school, they have to be worried about being bashed all their lives because there’s a very famous ADULT doing it to gays, lesbians, and everyone else on the planet who crosses his bigoted brain.
I’m glad to see you’ve stopped reading him. I never found him witty at all. If he was self-deprecating, in a non-lethal way, that would be one thing, but he goes after people for just existing. No one can please him. He hates everyone. He spews billions of gallons of hate each day, and he gets paid a fortune for it. I find that sad and disgusting. Also, he’s encouraging hate speech because he uses it constantly, and the people that come on to support or challenge him use the lowest hatefulest terminology to do it.
Someone who does that shouldn’t get an award. They should get sentenced to community service or just ignored.
Oh well.
Megan // June 18, 2008 at 5:52 pm |
The hypocrisy is thick as you explain about the gays, and you are right it is hard to do one thing and then say another. I’m seeing more reason to not visit his site as this discussion goes on.
I can’t believe all the awards he up for/won. That is INSANE and yet such a reflection of the state of our interests.
Natalie Davis // June 18, 2008 at 6:55 pm |
I will toast the day when the obviously self-loathing trash talker’s foul five minutes are over. (He ought to hate his behavior toward Rumer and his overall meanness and shallowness, but I suspect he’s suffering from internalized homophobia. And I will not mention that so-and-so’s name — he doesn’t deserve the publicity and gets far too much already, but this issue MUST be addressed, and seriously.)
Yes, his site can’t die fast enough for me. I pray that in the meantime no one takes his insane messages to heart and does something that scars them for life… or kills them. Because that could be the result of his dangerous comments.
It burns me up to hear that he’s winning awards… I can’t understand why he’s making so much money… being asked to go on TV and be on award shows. And for what? Is he being celebrated for being a sexist creep who admits to the “suckers” (his word) who visit his site that he doesn’t need them? Oh, I hope that comes back to haunt him when people wise up, the money dries up, and he is left all alone on his site, just as he is all alone in his pathetic, hate-filled, meaningless existence. He should be ashamed, and so should those who support him and give him awards.
There are consequences… I just hope some young girl doesn’t do something dangerous and stupid because of Perez Hilton or one of his ignorant, hateful fans. As the mother of a 19-year-old young woman who is the same age as Rumer Willis, this is something I worry about. Media messages can be very powerful and very damaging. I would hope the entire nation would worry about the messages being sent to our youth… and stop celebrating shallowness and sexism and conformity.
Amber // June 18, 2008 at 7:09 pm |
I stopped reading Perez last year because of his cruel and shallow attacks on people like Rumer. How anyone could find these kinds of cowardly tirades entertaining is beyond me, but the fact is, people are reading his blog en masse. So perhaps our effort is wasted in trying to convince him to lay off. I think there’s something to be said for pushing for the ideals and treatment of women that we want, rather than focusing our energy on terrible behavior that we’d like to eliminate. I’m not saying we shouldn’t call it out–we absolutely should make our feelings known. But I wonder if by somehow presenting a positive alternative to his crap, or even doing little things like choosing not to read his stuff and instead reading more affirming content (which many of us are alreayd doing), we can make more of an impact. Just a (not very well formed) thought…. that you all have probably already had
Megan // June 18, 2008 at 7:24 pm |
Hi Amber, we sure are hoping that our self-esteem blog can be one of those places with affirming content, it was the very reason we created this blog was to offer the other perspective. We aren’t just calling him to stop, but trying to offer a blog that offers a positive voice and an outlet to discuss what our options are other than just banning his site, for instance, check out our resources page: http://sweatitout.wordpress.com/inspirational-women/ we are trying our part to provide the tools to raise healthier girls to women.
dlg12 // June 18, 2008 at 8:26 pm |
Alright, I was recently invited to join this blog, and I am honored and to make my first public apperance as a blogger I will be honest about my love/hate relationship with Perez who is a blogging god no matter if I agree or disagree with his content.
Now to the point: Perez is unfair in his treatment of people BUT his unfairness seems to have no consistency in that I find him refreshing. Like everybody I know, for reasons that have no basis in reality, he picks on certain people; like Rumor. And what he says about them is low and often times cruel. Recently I have been feeling like I should stop visiting his site because some of his commentary goes against what this blog (and my own personal beliefs) stand for. Maybe I should stop viewing Perez but like Megan says we are hear to create a place where people can get another perspective on what is going on, how we view ourselves and the world around us hopefully in a better more compassionate light. And Perez DOES foster a place of acceptance for people who have been historically outcast so I cannot justify putting a ban on his site but I can offer a different voice to his and hopefully this will generate conversation that will lead to an overall discussion that will eventually conclude in everybody being more compassionate with themselves and others. Grand dreams I know but you got to start somewhere.
Jacks // June 19, 2008 at 12:46 am |
Be kind to one another. How can anyone look at a sweet young woman and hurl such vitriol? Where does their own personal pain come from that makes them think that this is acceptable? Rumer Willis is stunning. I feel that she suffers from the same degrading standards that also got Sarah Jessica Parker as the focus of these mysogynists. She summed it up best by pointing out that it takes bleached hair and fake lips and boobs to be “acceptable.” It’s a sorry state of affairs. I hope Rumer Willis recognizes that she is a beautiful person and doesn’t need to fall in the very narrow standards presented.
But, if we are to be completely honest with ourselves, the environment she is in is not the healthiest. If one is in a home with a Mom that has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the plastic surgery industry….well, you do the math.
Megan // June 19, 2008 at 10:32 am |
Welcome Danielle! So excited to have you with us now – You’ll have to set up your bio on your About us so people can get to you know.
I agree with you I think that it is a love/hate with Perez Hilton for me too because I also see it like you wrote here: “And Perez DOES foster a place of acceptance for people who have been historically outcast so I cannot justify putting a ban on his site but I can offer a different voice to his and hopefully this will generate conversation that will lead to an overall discussion that will eventually conclude in everybody being more compassionate with themselves and others.”
lorajane // June 23, 2008 at 6:05 am |
I think the little troll is getting a taste of his own medicine, see this article in the NY Times…
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/06/no_one_wants_perez_hiltons_clo_1.html
haha, his fashion line is crap and he has no credibility what so ever! Rumer Willis may not fit his idea of pretty but least she has taste and style… something he is clearly lacking.
Megan // June 23, 2008 at 5:56 pm |
Hi LoraJane,
Wow. I wouldn’t have expected this to happen to him. I just figured his younger fans would love his clothing and such. That is not good press for him to get at all. Maybe there is more of a love/hate with him than we realize.