Posted on 12/01/2006 9:23:25 AM PST by meg88
Perhaps youthful celebrities like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are more to be pitied than blamed. Certainly, one branch of their education has been sadly neglected: No one has ever taught them how young ladies climb out of vehicles -- knees together, both legs lifted simultaneously, torso swiveled, feet placed firmly on the pavement.
In recent days, this oversight has evolved into something of a public spectacle. Websites devoted to celebrity gossip have featured plenty of pictures of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan climbing out of cars.
The problem is this: Young women like Lohan and Spears are, in fact, serving as role models to girls all over the United States. A poll conducted last year by Teenage Research Unlimited found that Lindsay Lohan was the person most envied by teen girl respondents.
What's most remarkable is the deafening silence from the larger culture that has greeted the antics of the young starlets.
It's hardly admirable that adult males say nothing about the exhibitionism, but perhaps it's understandable; while they may not respect young women like Lohan and Spears, the visuals are doubtless intriguing. But older women who fail to speak out about why Spears' and Lohan's behavior is inappropriate and wrong become complicit in it on a much deeper level.
By their silence, they are allowing little girls (like they once were) to absorb the destructive message that vulgarity is the same as sexiness, that exhibiting oneself to be stared at or drooled over like a prime cut of meat constitutes "empowerment," and that it's "cool" to flaunt one's sexuality indiscriminately, rather than sharing it with a man who's shown he's interested in more than just another female body.
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"I'm going to have to consider that an unconfirmed report...that is until someone can provide a link for confirmation...? (LOL)"
google it...it's out there and it ain't pretty. You can even see Brit's c-section scar.
Considering Rosie O'Donnell said that her behavior was crude and vulgar, that's saying a lot. I'm waiting for Whoopi Goldberg to register her disgust.
I was doing some reading this afternoon and she is really out of control, more than this article even implies and reading things like she and Paris disappear into bathroom stalls for 20 minutes or more together sure reeks of drug use to me -- also shots of Paris holding Brittney's breast as they walk into a club... who would do something like that in public, sober? I don't care what she (they) do, I do care about those babies, however.
wonder why Helen Thomas never has been photographed getting out of a car?
Maybe the next announcement will be that she's going into the Betty Ford Clinic.
The rate they are going this can't have a good ending. There was a doctor recently who evidentally treated Lindsey Lohan for a cocaine and alcohol overdose, didn't call police but it got her kicked out of her "apartment" at the Chateau Marmot.
What is the Chateau Marmot?
Why Britney's Behaving Badly
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=2690384&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
http://www.chateaumarmont.com/
http://hubpages.com/hub/chateaumarmont
very impressive place!
What is she doing in the picture?
Yes, and a lot of people go right by it. Sunset Blvd. was once "the" place to go in Los Angeles, I remember in my younger days it was a big deal when a blockbuster movie came out to get dressed up and go to Sunset Blvd to see the movie at one of the then-major theaters and then have a very nice dinner after.
can't see it clearly...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Britney does not have much of a career left, and is trying to stay in the public eye by whatever means necessary.
Yep, Britney wants to do anything to stay in the public eye, I guess. Geez louise, we know she has one of those, we don't need to see it.
She's gotten lotsa bad publicity about this, but what they say is true -- any publicity can be good publicity.
[The rate they are going this can't have a good ending]
BTT
Most of us can't even fathom the depth of that kind of cash. She's probably earned more in interest in the time it took me to type this than most of us will earn all year long.
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