Alphabet Kids

Finding your way through psychiatric labels for kids.

by Robbie Woliver

Lady Gaga and her 10 million Facebook friends: celebrity worship syndrome

By Robbie Woliver on July 3, 2010 in Alphabet Kids

Lady Gaga has surpassed 10 million Facebook friends. (You know, you're not really her friend, right?) When celebrity worship is healthy and when it goes bad. Read More

...that's too bad...

Submitted by ...sleeprunning... on July 4, 2010 - 4:58pm.

let us add some additional ideas...no science for these:

- Celebrity seems to be based on very clear and simple mating modeling behavior. Young people pick celebrities because they give clues for self-presentation, dress, make up, expressiveness and behavior that's going to get a better mate.
- The kinds of mental illnesses you describe are genetic so a reliable diagnostic signal is parental behavior and that of relatives. The media does not cause brain disorders. These illnesses run thru generations in families, like any other medical condition.

Finally, and most important and determinant, the competition for mates, especially young men that will make above average lifetime incomes is accelerating in intensity as educated girls proliferate and female competition just intensifies. The bad economies accelerates this.

Standing out as different, more sexy/fertile, attractive is a non-stop and shifting challenge for women of mate-selection age. Lady Gaga really is clued into getting attention visually which is the main way the male brain selects mates. SHE knows what a girl needs to do (look like) today. Plus, it changes - daily.