Britney Spears's mother is under the impression we have all shaved our heads at one time or another.

[sandrakae]

Lynne Spears says her daughter Britney, whose public meltdown included shearing off her own locks, is "just figuring things out."

"It's sad that the whole world had to watch her make mistakes that all of us have made at one time or another," Spears is quoted as telling Us Weekly magazine in its latest issue.


http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/13/people.lynnespears.ap/index.html

Funny how celebrity parents never say the truth like "My daughter is behaving like filthy fucking trash because that is the way she was raised".

[Richardo]

1. Your take is better than I ever could have said it....

I salute you! :patriot:

[Withywindle]

2. Seems like most of the people I knew in college did.

I did once. It was a stress thing. :hi:

[SteelPenguin]

17. Me too

I love how 'better than thou' people get. Either they didn't do anything and shouldn't be throwing stones, or more likely, they didn't have a gaggle of paparazzi following them around during their high school and college years.

Regardless of how much cash you had when you were 17-24, I bet a vast majority of people here, and anywhere, could be made to look bad. Really bad.

I shaved my head. I got blitzed at 8am and then passed out on a friends porch by noon. I smoked pot in public. I was drunk and passed out in someone's car. And more and more. If I had paparazi following me, I'd have looked like a total out of control freak.

I wasn't though, I was 21.

[treestar]

3. How very sad

Really, she should just be able to shave her head and be ignored like the rest of us. :rofl:

[firefox_fan]

4. Perhaps she could give me 1M and see if she feels good about it.

Shouldn't she try that??

[pretty_lies]

5. I Think It's Sad

She's just a human being under all those layers of ruthless publicists and magazines who exploit her. Same with Paris Hilton for that matter.

Many of my friends in high school destroyed themselves with drugs and bad judgments. Spears has done the same thing. But it's only these girls who get ridiculed over their breakdowns. Mental illness isn't funny.

The schadenfreude over their pain is disgusting and smacks of a misplaced public rage over the inability to deal with the REAL disgraces:

* endless war
* poverty
* uncontrolled immigration driving down wages
* unaffordable housing
* a terrible healthcare system
* two identikit political parties which hate regular working people

Just my 2c.

-lie

[Madspirit]

10. I Agree with everything you say except

I don't agree with your point about "uncontrolled immigration" but I agree with EVERYTHING else you say. Everything.

Pretending the rich don't bleed is absurd.
Lee

[pretty_lies]

14. This Is A Complex Issue

But I think we can agree that allowing, say, a million people from a third-world country to enter the US will have a depressive effect on the wages of people they compete with.

Now, it's certainly not the only effect that uncontrolled immigration has. And it's not the only factor that drives down wages - free trade agreements, corporate globalization, and a lack of income security (that would allow working people to re-skill) are also very significant.

I am certainly not against immigration per se, but I strongly support the US being able to regulate its own borders.

This just makes sense: a country that doesn't control its own borders isn't strictly sovereign at all.

If we need a certain number of people every year to work the minimum wage, then let's let them in legally.

The current situation is grossly hypocritical, where both ruling parties allow half a million people to violate the law, cross the border illegally and work for less than the minimum wage every year in order to please their big-business donors.

Ethically, it's not that much different from slavery.

[Madspirit]

6. I have a lot of friends who have shaved their heads...

...especially during major life struggles. A shrink friend of mine said one of the unhealthiest mind sets she sees at DU is pretending the rich don't have pain and sorrow and dysfunction and all those other human emotions. ...and I've been homeless and still live in poverty but I am not going to go around pretending rich people are not even humans.
Lee

[rinsd]

7. Or how about no comment?

I don't expect a parent to attack their child or castigate them in public.

I also understand the want to defend one's child against what is seen as unfair attacks.

But no comment serves both those aims better than what she offered.

[hippiechick]

8. ... maybe not shaved but I did have the Billy Idol thing for awhile ...

:shrug: I tend to agree with her. Teenagers have no reason to be multi-millionaire mega stars.

Greedy stage parents should back the hell off and let their kids (attempt, at least) to grow up into normal human beings.

[MADem]

12. She's a teenager? I thought she was in her mid to late twenties? nt

[hippiechick]

16. ... yeah she is now ... but when she was a teenager ...

... she was trapped in the "Mickey Mouse Rocket to Stardom" machine.

Give these peeps a break, eh? Their lives have been 100% managed since their "parents" decided they were little walking gold mines. I'd have flipped out a time or two myself.

[wicket]

19. Amen

n/t

[MADem]

21. She'll jump the shark soon enough. In the interim, though, I'll save my pity for people with life

and death problems, like the poor bastards in Darfur.

Some idiot who runs off with a pregnant gal's boyfriend, runs around flashing her hoohah, shaving her head and dropping out of rehab is just not worth my time. I can't even get excited about her lousy parenting skills, driving around with her kid in her lap, dropping her kids on the floor and so on. I just wish they'd take half the time they spend cramming information about her onto the news programs, and spend it, say, on the war, the wounded, the dead, the families....but that's too much to hope, I know. And the only reason I know about all that stuff is thanks to/curses at the media, who shove this crap down our throats constantly.

Besides, she can't sing for shit--even with all of the modulation of her voice in the studio, and the fact that they never give her a challenging vocal arrangement, she just, well, SUCKS musically. I really can't muster up any emotion about her in any fashion--she's just, well...marginal, and unimportant to the big scheme.

Like I said, with any luck, she'll be over that shark soon enough. We'll see her mentioned in one of those NEWSWEEK "Where are They Now?" columns, and go, Oh YEAAAH...I sorta kinda remember that one....

[hippiechick]

29. You're entitled to your righteous indignation ...

... just as others of us are entitled to have a little pity on her. Talentless though she may be - she's still a human who's life I sure as hell wouldn't want.

Agreed?

[MADem]

30. Righteous indignation????

Good grief. A bit melodramatic, for starters.

But moreover, that attitude takes takes EFFORT.

I simply don't CARE about her.

She won't starve--you can't give that assurance to the population of Darfur, can you?

[WI_DEM]

9. well maybe she would have been better off if mom had let her be a kid

and not allowed her to spend her years growing up with the pressures of show business.

[Parche]

11. Brittany

Are you sure it was her 'head' she was talking about that was shaved??? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[Cha]

13. I think it's sad too that we

have to be a witness to that. The mags and the paparzzi seem to think she's newsworthy. I don't like seeing her mug 24/7.

[Jonathan50]

15. I'm approaching sixty ...

And I had my head shaved a few weeks ago.. Or clipped so close it might as well have been shaved.

She who must be obeyed was distinctly *not* amused. :)

It's kind of neat to be able to get up in the morning and not look like Albert Einstein on a bad hair day.

[MADem]

22. Yeah, but did YOU run around flashing your hoohah at the paparazzi??

Heh heh....

:rofl:

[Jonathan50]

27. I would if I thought anyone would pay attention..

And it would make me a couple of million bucks..

With my luck I'd just get arrested for being a flasher..

[Olney Blue]

18. Most people I know without hair are undergoing chemo.

So STFU.

[senseandsensibility]

20. Is the picture accompanying the article

of her mother?

[MADem]

24. It looks like the daughter, a bit bloated

But no wonder the kid is fucked up, really. This quote slayed me--imagine how it must make the REST of the woman's kids feel?

"Britney Jean Spears is the sweetest and the most sensitive and loving of all my children," says Spears, the mother of three children with ex-husband Jamie Spears..."

Yeah, the rest of her kids are selfish, obtuse, surly little baaastids!!! They sure don't EARN like sweet little Britney, which might account for the reason she gets the best review from Ma!!!

[HockeyMom]

23. Closest I got was almost a crew cut

I was married and just had my first child. I was so overwhelmed with her that I didn't want to be bothered fussing with MY beauty routine.

By the time my second was born, it was WHATEVER. My hair was almost down to my waist and I just put it up in a long ponytail.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

25. well, i have not yet made the mistake of marrying

Kevin Federline, though I could see why that would put someone into a mental health facility. And, no current addictions (other than the occasion food item or two). You know, come to think of it, I haven't made any of her 'big' mistakes...not saying others haven't...but for the elder Spears to say it is something everyone has done...well, that may be a bit over the top!

sP

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

26. She's kind of got a point.

Everybody did stupid shit when they were kids.

What sort of pathetic nobody really gives a shit if Britney Spears shaved her head?

[baldguy]

28. Well...