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Kardashianization
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English
Etymology
From en Kardashian ization.
Noun
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The process of making or becoming like the Kardashian family or their products or self-promotion.
en w:Dan Le Batard When kings of our sports world turn into jesters The Miami Herald 110th year 128 20 January 2013 18A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/655198800/ Mock the gossip-monger for his or her obsession with celebrity in supermarket’s magazine aisle, but what we witnessed last week was the Kardashianization of our sports-news cycle, swallowed as it was by Scorn’d Sports Consumer.
en Beth Kassab Disney’s glam makeovers send wrong message w:Orlando Sentinel 7 May 2013 B1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/268208462/ Merida, the sweet, independent princess from “Brave,” will officially join the Disney Princess Royal Court on Saturday. Translation from Disney-speak: Merida is about to get her glam on. Off-the-shoulder gown. Eyeliner. Lipstick. Wild red curls tamed into voluminous sexy locks. A coy expression enhanced by her new, fuller lips. This is the Kardashian-ization of the Disney Princess.
en Deroy Murdock Elevation of the average has killed U.S. spirit The Gleaner 129th year 144 Henderson, Ky. 16 June 2013 4A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/771778444/ The U.S. now wheezes beneath the crushing weight of lawsuits, environmental impact reports, diversity consultants, a $17 trillion national debt, entitlement proliferation, lethargic economic growth, the lowest labor-participation rate since 1979, relentless Twitter distractions, and the mind-dissolving effects of Kardashianization.
en Donna Freydkin Minnie Driver will ‘Zero’ in on ‘hard story’ w:Lansing State Journal 12 May 2014 8B https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/109142590/ But [Minnie] Driver’s still wary of what she calls the “Kardashianization” of children of the famous, of putting them in magazine spreads and on reality shows, of using them to promote films and clothing lines.
en cicero venatio America today: "Call me Caitlyn." alt.politics.elections 2 June 2015 With America in it's waning days, as total economic collapse nears, America is focused on Bruce Jenner's cover photo on Vanity Fair. It is the Kardashianization of America, as California runs out of water, the Kardashians can not be shamed into turning off their sprinklers on their palatial green landscapes.
en John McKie How the Spice effect still packs punch https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36714177 w:BBC News 7 July 2016 "They inaugurated the era of cheesy celebrity obsession which pertains today," he says. "There is lineage from them to the Kardashianisation not only of the music industry, but the wider culture." https://web.archive.org/web/20260731210753/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36714177 31 July 2026
en C.J. w:Peggy Orenstein Peggy Orenstein aims to overthrow the ‘princess industrial complex’ w:Star Tribune XXXVI 1 5 April 2017 B2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/286750485/ Sound Minnesota values and research for books such as “Girls & Sex” don’t make bestselling author Peggy Orenstein a fan of the impact the Kardashians have had on society. “Kim [Kardashian] gets fame and money in exchange for selling her sex appeal without changing a system that urges girls from an early age to view their bodies as projects to be constantly monitored and improved, a system that requires women in the public eye to be ‘hot’ in order to get ahead or even have a voice — whether they’re actors, singers, athletes, newscasters, lawyers, politicians, whether they are 15 or 65,” said Orenstein.I was noticing that girls are marketed to from the earliest ages. What they learn in that marketing through the princess industrial complex and into the Kardashianization of girlhood is that how they look is more important than who they are.In my most recent book, “Girls & Sex,” I write about how girls learn that self-absorption is the same as self-confidence. It means self-confidence is the same thing as being narcissistic. That’s the essence of the Kardashianization of girlhood.
en w:Richard Dresser It Happened Here Brown Books Publishing Group 2020 978-1-61254-494-6 With honest political reporting off the menu, the networks gloried in bold and hard-hitting takes on pop culture. The Kardashianization of America was complete.
en Chiara Pussetti an Argentinian makeup artist Shaping the European Body: The Cosmetic Construction of Whiteness Alvaro Jarrín; Chiara Pussetti Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement New York, N.Y.; Oxford w:Berghahn Books 2021 part II (Reshaping) 99 978-1-80073-032-8 Search in Instagram: in the lower classes you find a false beauty, which is what I call Kardashianization.
en w:Dave Hyde The intersection of sports, commerce and fraternity prank w:Independent Tribune 119 68 6 June 2021 B5 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/740116693/ Don’t write this off simply as the Kardashianization of America or the continued descent into social nihilism. We’ve always had events like this in South Florida.
en Matthew Gilbert Pam, Tommy, and the art of looking back Boston Sunday Globe 301 30 30 January 2022 N7 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/809683277/ The first, “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” had big points to make about mass media, the seed that grew into the Kardashian-ization of America, and the sexism directed at prosecutor Marcia Clark.
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