20-20 Hindparenting
From The Week, Britney Spears' mother Lynn said it probably wasn't such a good idea to turn her into an international sex symbol at age 15. D'ya think?
20-20 Hindparenting
From The Week, Britney Spears' mother Lynn said it probably wasn't such a good idea to turn her into an international sex symbol at age 15. D'ya think?
I didn't have the heart to follow the link all the way to the source, but I maintain (from the distance that comes from reading about this person in Australian newspapers) that this probably wouldn't have happened if Britney hadn't come from a home with divorce.
(Why yes, now that you mention it, we have discussed this before. And almost a year later, I'm still right and Tressider's still wrong.)
Spears' position of fame in her generation could probably never be occupied by a balanced personality. The things people want from their daily showbiz figures are not predictable or logical, but they're very real. We shouldn't be surprised that a generation rattled by divorce, as her generation has been, would take interest in in a similarly fractured soul.
Crid [cridcridatgmail] at September 21, 2008 2:05 AM
Um...fucking DUH!
Robert at September 21, 2008 5:35 AM
I support Robert's comment.
In fact, I wish I said it first.
Toubrouk at September 21, 2008 6:49 AM
Quick: Someone go to wikipedia and look up whether Miley Cyrus' parents are divorced.
Crid [cridcridatgmail] at September 21, 2008 10:20 AM
Miley Cyrus's parents are divorced, Crid. They're just not divorced from each other.
marion at September 21, 2008 6:24 PM
OK, then how long 'til she cuts all her hair off? Complete the form below and mail it to Amy's office:
+--------------------------------------------------
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| Time until Miley goes wackazoid
| (check one):
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| [ ] 1 Year
| [ ] 3 Years
| [ ] 5 Years
| [ ] 7+ Years
|
| Wager: $____ (Enclose cashiers check)
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| Date & Signature:________ _____________
|
+--------------------------------------------------
Crid at September 21, 2008 6:55 PM
Crid, I'll take that bet for 10 bucks. I say Miley goes whack at least once between 16-19.
we need to define whack, plus it might be more than once. So let's come up with a bet and some odds. i'm always good with paypal.
Sterling at September 21, 2008 8:30 PM
I remember a few years ago, National Review, of all magazines, passing comment on the latest Britney Spears to-do (I certainly can't remember which issue). National Review's position was more pity than outrage or sarcasm. The editors said they couldn't think of Britney without thinking of Judy Garland's sad, sad life a few generations before, and hoped Britney wouldn't meet the same fate.
On the other hand, it seems like Disney keeps a little tighter rein on it's stable of starlets now. Say what you will, but the whole Hannah Montana thing is kept pretty squeaky-clean, and even the Vanessa Hudgens thing passed pretty quickly. And young Miss Tisdale couldn't be less controversial if she lived in a convent. (Can somebody tell me what else is on TV? Outside of football, I usually wind up watching what my kids want to watch.)
old rpm daddy at September 22, 2008 4:57 AM
Here we go again. Crid, you sound like a broken record. No child can go wrong without the big D, right? Explain to me then why my two oldest sisters before my parents' divorce:
1) the oldest, wound up in a mental hospital and as an adult in and out of same until she disappeared over the blue horizon?
2) second oldest, pregnant at 16 before our parents divorced? (Her second one at 18, came after they separated but before the D was final, so I'll give you that one because I'm feeling generous today.)
I swear to read this blog, you'd think no kids of diaper to dorm parents ever went bad. Though come to think of it, that ax murderer I knew, his parents, at least last I knew of them, were still married. Nice, ordinary middle class life in a suburb too. Nope, nothing wrong there, right? Frankly, my sister's illegitimate teen pregnancies pale in comparison.
Bad parents are bad parents whether they ever marry, stay married or not. Same goes for good parents.
T's Grammy at September 24, 2008 9:53 AM
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