Letters to the Editor
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Britney no "musician"
Calling Britney Spears (and others of her ilk), a "young musician," is part of the problem that Rebecca Traister attempts to expose. As Traister points out, from the get-go she probably had a warped ideal of herself. So why do people like Traister, who know better, play into that warped view? Spears doesn't play an insrtrument, at least not on stage. She doesn't write music. She's a product of our warped culture. Nothing more. Certainly not a "musician," young or otherwise. Maybe people should started calling her what she is (whatever that is). Even worse, of course, is MTV.
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Thanks for the heartbreaking moose story, butthole....
....you certainly made my fine day with that anecdote you just had to share. It's all downhill for my shaky emotional state today, thanks a heap!
Oh, and calling Short Bus a "young musician"?
A) She's not all that "young"
B) She's not a musician. A musician plays a musical instrument.
Jesus!
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Cap'n Eurazz's posting re. the moose story
That story ruined my evening. Are you really telling me it's fake? I sure hope you're right.
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poor pitiful child
has it made it to the minds of anybody that this poor child (and i say child b/c she never grew up out of the miserable one she has chronologically already experienced), has a serious mental disorder? she is a classic cluster "b" personality structure which consists of borderline/histrionic and narcissistic traits. add substance abuse issues and perhaps some psychosis and you have one very sick and unstable person. she needs to be as far away from the maddening crowd right now as possible - preferably retired, in long term therapy and lots of self-care instead of surrounded by synchophants and svengalis but supported by a couple of close friends and professional people who care about HER not her pocketbook. this is a sad, sad situation. however, what makes it more complicated and tragic is that this kind of personality structure is very, very difficult to treat and it doesn't seem that there is anybody who is willing to risk her wrath by telling her the painful truth. this is a girl who we may one day be reading about in the obituaries. it will have been (and already is) a public fall exacerbated by a drooling media and their hungry audience. who is gonna help this kid?
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For all you people bellyaching about Britney being called "FAT"
Of course she looks normal, healthy, better than 99% of the regular human population. Compared to the people I see coming out of Country Buffet, she is fit and skinny.
People, there is a reason we're not all pop stars. The "beautiful people" on stage are NOT SUPPOSED to look like the rest of us. They need to look way MORE fabulous, freakishly fabulous, otherwise why would we watch. Why does fabulous necessarily mean skinny? Because what passes for hot in real life just looks average and a little doughy on camera, especially when SOMEONE insists on being stuffed into a spangly bikini. And Britney's face, though adequately cute, does have a southern sorority averageness to it, so her body really does need to be impossibly tight to justify all the hoo-haa over her physicality.
Reasonable people are aware of this divide, and do not try to confuse the two standards. The problem arises when we regular folks think we need to look like the stars, or think the stars need to look like us. No we don't, and no they don't. If I wanted that, I could park my lawn chair at my neighbor Larry's house and stare at him for a couple of hours. No thanks.
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Re: "Huh?"
I'm with you on this one Lestat1. I'm more than a little tired of the rhetoric from those who insist that everyone is responsible for certain bad things that happen to certain other people. Let's be clear here, nobody is pulling out the boohoo "we" nonsense for the "Britney" around the corner.
What galls me though is the hypocrisy. A lot of the same people who viciously mocked the Britney's, Lindseys, et al are now tossing empty pity their way. At least, Silverman is consistent. Yeah, I guess it's not funny anymore, huh? Now that the moose is drowning....
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Sara Silverman
only pulled back the curtain to reveal the truth. She was funny. She was right. Britney is fat. She is white trash. Federline is a better parent than she is. She is the agent of her own destruction. She will be financially destitute within 5-7 years.
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I believe the moose story.
First off, Michael Vick isn't the evil exception. He's the rule. He just uses dogs and those guys in Maine used a moose, whereas most people use football, NASCAR, boxing, YouTube clips of train wrecks and street fights, or Britney for their violence fix. In Britney's case, it's socio-emotional violence and as Ms. Traister noted, it's scattershot violence, which sprays many women as they see folks poke Ms. Spear's wonderful, abdominal softness.
It's hard to achieve porn-star tautness. Ms. Spears is rich and seemingly disinterested in the requisite deprivation. I don't blame her anymore than I blame Harper Lee for never writing another book. Ms. Lee wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" on a door because she couldn't afford a desk. After selling millions, there was no need to return to that door, no matter how gussied it might be by her wealth. Likewise with Ms. Spears.
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Regarding chasing members of the deer family in the water,
I once did that. It was a 1-mile widening of the Mississippi River and this young deer was headed toward the current, where barges plowed up and down river, stopping for nothing, and drunk, yeehaw motorboaters were scooting. So, I tried to steer it back to shore. Steering a swimming deer isn't easy. It refused to straight-line. It swam north, south, east, and west. By the time I got it back on its bank of origin, it was exhausted and wobbly. So, Ms. Traister, perhaps those guys in Maine were similarly well-intended.
Or perhaps they were typical members of our species who derived pleasure from other people's pain.
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a privileged life
"Ms. Spears has lead a very privileged life."
I think it's interesting that so many people equate money with happiness. In my opinion, Ms. Spears has led a nightmarish life -- being hawked for soft-core child porn by her own mother, never having a real childhood, and being constantly scrutinized and criticized by every dipshit with a television or computer. I don't think there's a monetary sum to compensate for such a life. I don't think that any amount of money can compensate for not being loved or respected by one's parents. To assert that growing up wealthy and abused is preferable to growing up poor and loved is sick. Really sick. Do you really think that Britney Spears had a better childhood than, say, Laura Ingalls Wilder?