In all the analysis, no one seems to zero in on what Michaele Salahi plainly is: a pretty lady who wants to dress up and have fun at fancy parties. Even after the story of her party-crashing broke, Salahi still wanted to talk to Bravo’s camera chiefly about her dress and what an impressive figure she had cut in it.

Maybe that’s not very noble. But in itself it’s not against the law. For that matter, alcoholism is not against the law, and neither is sleeping around or lying about how many drinks you’ve had or even seeming very, very skanky. For those who maturely skipped the party phase of life, gaming the guest list (But Russell Simmons said I’d have a plus one! My boyfriend’s right in the door!) is part and parcel of the night-life spirit — and also not in itself a jailable offense.

Right after 9/11, Muslim regimes were depicted as tyrannical in part because they demonized Western fun-loving culture in the name of a misogynistic ideology. Slowly but surely we’ve been doing the same thing with our most visible good-time girls, making villains of women who are dangerous almost exclusively to themselves. We point cameras into their darkened cars and literally up their skirts to find cellulite or evidence of immodesty that wouldn’t exist without the cameras. When they start drinking and doing drugs, just as many celebrities before them have done, we become incensed, agitating for them to go to jail. Pretty soon someone like Pinsky is openly scheming to frame one of them so she can end up behind bars. If these women are bad examples to our daughters, we who take a hang-’em-high attitude to party girls have officially become bad examples to their parents.

Points of Entry: This Week’s Recommendations

HEY, LADIES

Gawker Media, the blog empire, may be proudest of its anchor site, Gawker, but the feminist blog Jezebel — “celebrity, sex, fashion for women” — is the real showpiece. Strange, surprising, it lets feminism hide in plain sight and attracts wit from a cadre of top-rank commenters.

SOBER UP

The fourth season of “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” starts Dec. 1 on VH1, and don’t let anyone tell you it’s not fascinating. If you think rehab works, or think it doesn’t, test your hypothesis as celebs face their substance-abuse demons.

VOGUE

The glamour-under-pressure pose was made famous in “Paris Is Burning,” Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary about drag balls among poor black and Latino gay men. It has been 20 years — and the movie still astounds.