Really?! with Kelly

First there was Samantha in Sex and The City and now… Serena in Gossip Girl.

In the show, Serena, who graduates high school planning to Brown, decides to defer her college experience and take some time to “find herself” and experience the “real world.”

First of all, if this is taking place in the present day no one in their right mind would willing pass up school to go look for a job… NO ONE.

So Serena, through her crazy experiences and encounters, gets offered, right off the bat, a job as a celebrity publicity.

In today’s world it really is all about who you know but come on…

What makes me the most upset is how these publicist characters are just stereotyped to be crazy manipulating truth spinners who are looking for press.. not matter what the outlook.

It’s disappointing to think that is how people see those in the publicity field.

According to EW Popwatch (that I normally LOVE):

But Serena just doesn’t seem like a publicist to me; that job reeks of Blair Waldorf.

And while, yes, the point was Serena was young and naive, but knew how to be a friend and do the right thing.. blah blah blah… does that mean that a publicist is supposed to be a stuck up bitch?

Being a publicist takes tenacity, persistence, patience and a thick skin and it really is craft that one does not learn over night or by the age of 18.

And scene.