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The Nation's Pulse: Bad Girls Go Out
American Spectator Magazine ^ | Published 11/30/2006 12:07:10 AM | Carol Platt Liebau

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: britney; britneyspears; celebrityairheads; climbingouttacars; girlsgonewild; hollyweird; hollywhores; hollywoodsewerpipe; lindsaylohan; moralabsolutes; shakeitbabytogetaman; shitneyspears; skanks; slutsintraining; spears; stripperhood
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters

"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.


121 posted on 12/01/2006 8:57:35 PM PST by Scotswife
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To: meg88

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.


122 posted on 12/01/2006 9:07:54 PM PST by Nachoman (Just because you're a kook doesn't mean there isn't a conspiracy.)
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To: meg88
I wonder if there is something going on with all of this acting out by Britney. It could be she subconsciously wants to be rid the resposnilbilty of her kids and this kind of public behavior well might get her there.
123 posted on 12/01/2006 9:41:08 PM PST by RunningWolf (2-1 Cav 1975)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Those girls are like the latest version of the Sinatra rat pack, and like the rat pack people end up getting hurt.

Paris seems to much a survivor, I hope Lindsay and Britney don't end up going down in flames.
124 posted on 12/01/2006 9:44:23 PM PST by RunningWolf (2-1 Cav 1975)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

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.


125 posted on 12/01/2006 10:16:01 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Scotswife

wonder why Helen Thomas never has been photographed getting out of a car?


126 posted on 12/01/2006 10:40:54 PM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Maybe the next announcement will be that she's going into the Betty Ford Clinic.


127 posted on 12/02/2006 5:41:02 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
I hope it's that instead of a picture of their car wrapped around a tree somewhere.

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.

128 posted on 12/02/2006 10:41:50 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

What is the Chateau Marmot?


129 posted on 12/02/2006 2:35:30 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Why Britney's Behaving Badly

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=2690384&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312


130 posted on 12/02/2006 2:41:50 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Part of the old Los Angeles History (of the 1920's), here is a link to their Website (John Belushi died there)...

http://www.chateaumarmont.com/

http://hubpages.com/hub/chateaumarmont

131 posted on 12/02/2006 3:25:11 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

very impressive place!


132 posted on 12/02/2006 3:29:47 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

What is she doing in the picture?


133 posted on 12/02/2006 3:30:35 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

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.


134 posted on 12/02/2006 3:32:32 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

can't see it clearly...


135 posted on 12/02/2006 3:33:15 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: meg88
Girls Gone Wild Bump

"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

136 posted on 12/02/2006 3:33:23 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Britney does not have much of a career left, and is trying to stay in the public eye by whatever means necessary.


137 posted on 12/02/2006 3:56:18 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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To: SauronOfMordor

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.


138 posted on 12/02/2006 3:59:18 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Arizona Carolyn

[The rate they are going this can't have a good ending]

BTT


139 posted on 12/02/2006 4:31:30 PM PST by RunningWolf (2-1 Cav 1975)
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To: wideawake
I have to question your analysis here. I don't have a better one, yet it doesn't seem logical that she's doing it for cash. With a net worth valued at over $150,000,000, she makes her heiress pal Paris seem poor by comparison.

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.

140 posted on 12/02/2006 8:21:53 PM PST by Melas (Offending stupid people since 1963)
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