A clip of reality star and noted socialite Kim Kardashian has gone viral after the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star told women to “get your f*cking *ss up and work” to be successful. “I have the best advice for women in business,” Kardashian said. “Get your f*cking *ss up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days. You have to surround yourself with people that want to work. Have a good work environment where everyone loves what they do because you have one life. No toxic work environments and show up and do the work.”
Kiss frontman Paul Stanley took umbrage with Kardashian’s comments and responded on Twitter. “The irony here would be funny if it wasn’t such an insult to millions of women who struggle to achieve and put food on the table while battling a system of inequality and inequities,” Stanley wrote. “Kim, You were born rich. Embrace it with grace by not being blind.”
Kardashian also took offense that some in the public say she’s famous for being famous. “We focus on the positive,” she said. “We work our *sses off. If that’s what you think, then sorry. We just don’t have the energy for that. We don’t have to sing or dance or act; we get to live our lives — and hey, we made it. I don’t know what to tell you.”
Stanley has talked previously and written about the work he and his Kiss bandmates put into becoming one of the most successful rock bands as well as entrepreneurs on the planet. According to Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, Stanley’s 2019 book, “Backstage Pass,” was “part rock ’n’ roll self-help book, part life tutorial. Fans and non-fans alike will benefit from the how, what and why of what makes Paul tick … Paul’s insights on business, family, relationships, and music demonstrate a wisdom equal to his Hall of Fame status.”
Stanley told interviewer Scott Lipps in 2020: “I was determined, and as other people were pursuing careers in medicine and things like that, I spent seven days a week, 24 hours a day, figuring how am I going to do this. Because it doesn’t happen on its own.If you have a goal and if you’ve really done an assessment of yourself and you truly believe you’re capable of doing it, the only thing that’s in your way is hard work. Obstacles? Sure, there’s always obstacles. There’s people who tell you what’s impossible, and those people are always the ones who failed. So, if I can be a light for anybody at this point in my life, I tell people, ‘You can do it if it’s really within your power to do it.’ I wasn’t an idiot. I never pursued becoming a mathematician because I’m an idiot at math. But if you truly know innately that you can do something, then you can.”
