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    • The Sunday Trumpet (and a little aside)

    Sunday, 18 February 2007, 20:55
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    Things are a little different this week. Due a nasty case of Bloggerus Posteaterus the scheduled reviewer, Nightmare has been unable to post his review himself. The wonderful Attila the Mom came valiantly to the rescue, and posted it on her own blog. So, head over there now to discover why Nightmare’s enjoyment of Tin Cup is spoilt by a glaring error at the end (I know nothing about golf and even I can see what he means) then drop into Nightmare’s blog to let him know you sympathise with his nasty case of the above mentioned disorder.

    If you would like to join the Gasbags and perform a valuable public service by alerting your fellow bloggers to books, films and tv programmes they really should avoid, then go here.

    One more thing, and it’s a subject I never thought I would blog about – since when did Britney Spears become evil incarnate? When I got up this morning, I turned one of the television news channels on and vaguely caught something about her shaving her head. ‘Surely not, she’s such a pretty girl’ I thought, but I was still on my first cup of coffee, so it didn’t really go much further than that. Just now, out of curiosity (thinking, ‘did I really hear that’) I checked and it’s true, she has. Later, I logged into Technorati and discovered a boat-load of people slagging her off. In fact, not just slagging her off, but saying such things as ‘her children should be taken away’ and ‘I hope she dies’.

    I admit, I’m not a fan of Britney, and I take little notice of anything she does, but, I gather that she has been through a pretty difficult time in the last two or three years, and adding it all up, it seems she is going through some kind of breakdown. One point in the whole story is very telling. Apparently, she told a tattooist “I don’t want anyone touching me. I’m tired of everyone touching me.” If I was a 25 year old woman who had been objectified, and profited from, for more than a third of my life, I think I might feel the same.

    I’m guessing all her critics and haters are perfect, and have never made any mistakes so feel entitled to wish misery and death on another human being. I’m also guessing that a degree of the anti-Britney feeling arises from fans who believed the perfect image she was bestowed with and who feel somewhat aggrieved now they have discovered she is as flawed as every other person on the planet.

    ps: If you are planning to leave a comment (please do, I love comments) don’t go down the ‘but what about the children route’. Women become good mothers through a combination of experience and encouragement. Harassment and criticism play no part in the process.

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    7 Comments for “The Sunday Trumpet (and a little aside)”

    1. 1Gorilla Bananas

      wrote on 19 February 2007 at 1:08

      Britney is the kind of daughter who would make a gorilla proud. She’s inquisitive, a good dancer and started breeding young. You humans should get off her back.

    2. 2Stegbeetle

      wrote on 19 February 2007 at 1:37

      I’m no great fan of Britney’s either. She done a couple of reasonably singalongable songs amongst all the pap and is quite cute in that all-american way which grates after a little while.

      I have nothing but sympathy for her though. Most of us make mistakes in our love lives, parenting and choice of hairstyles (!) but aren’t pursued by the world’s paparazzi whilst we do so. Give the girl a break, people.

      And “hear, hear” to the last paragraph.

    3. 3Marymurtz

      wrote on 19 February 2007 at 3:09

      If people think her children should be taken away, they’re crazy. She’s obviously lashing back against all the objectification and gossip about her, and who wouldn’t? She’s been turned into a sex object since she was in knee-socks and a cheerleader outfit, writhing around and singing in ways dictated by adult handlers. Shaving her head (and elsewhere) and publicly messing up is probably the first independent and unscripted thing she’s done in her life.

      And if all the dumb or questionable things I ever did were photographed and put in magazines, I would never leave the house.

      Having been a foster parent to children who were taken away from unfit mothers, I know this much: what Britney is doing with her life is imperfect at best, but it takes a LOT more than that to make her an unfit mother.

    4. 4Kate

      wrote on 19 February 2007 at 19:24

      Gorilla Bananas: Well said! And she could certainly afford plenty of bananas, so there’s another plus point.

      Steg: “Most of us make mistakes in our love lives, parenting and choice of hairstyles (!)”

      This is true. I spent the best part of 1984 wearing a hat after I rather foolishly dyed my hair black, only to discover it didn’t make me look the tiniest bit pale, interesting and gothic. It made me look as though I was auditioning for a part in a zombie film.

      MaryMurtz: I agree! Really, it’s amazing she hasn’t done anything like this sooner.

    5. 5Stegbeetle

      wrote on 20 February 2007 at 1:14

      Pictures! We want pictures!

    6. 6Kate

      wrote on 20 February 2007 at 15:00

      Pictures? Uurm no! I’m taking them to my grave.

    7. 7Stegbeetle

      wrote on 22 May 2009 at 17:18

      Pictures! We want pictures!

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