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mijan ([personal profile] mijan) wrote2007-09-12 08:27 am

I can't believe I'm posting about this, but...

Britney Spears.  Yes, I'm posting about everyone's favourite blond skank-whore "singer".  For once, I'm actually on her side... to an extent.

Apparently, she's put on a *tiny* bit of weight.  She's no longer a scrawny, scraggly little stick-figure.  She has a tiny little itty-bitty NORMAL-sized gut.  She's still slender.  Technically, if it weren't for the fact that it's HER, I'd say she's pretty hot (physically, only... I still can't stand her music, or her in general).  However, she performed in her usual skank-whore outfit, and people saw that she actually had more than 2% body fat, and everyone is calling her FAT.

GOOD GRIEF, PEOPLE!  There are plenty of GOOD reasons to insult Ms. Spears.  Insult her outfit because it's ALWAYS been skanky... nothing but a bra and underwear on stage while she was still a teenager.  (Fuck, you wanna talk about child porn?  LJ, look no farther than pics of Britney when she was a pip-squeak.)  Insult her 55-hour marriage.  Pick on her emo freak outs.  Insult her "music".  Point out her suck-tastic lip-synching.  Laugh at her blank expression and loss of physical coordination.

But... for goodness sake... do NOT call her fat!  She's NOT FAT!  She's simply no longer anorexic-looking.  We shouldn't be saying "She shouldn't wear that outfit, now that she's fat."  We should be saying that she NEVER should have worn that outfit because it makes her look like a two-bit whore, regardless of her weight.  (Really, save it for the bedroom.)

If we're calling Britney Spears fat because she has a three-ounce pooch-belly, then we should hang our heads in shame because our expectations of celebrities have finally gone off the deep end.  This is less about Britney Spears than it is about our own social perceptions of weight and the female body-image.  It's sad.  It's really sad.  I don't particularly like watching her parading herself like a skank, and I DESPISE her "style" of music.  So I don't watch her performances or listen to her music.  I saw a video clip of her performance on the news, and listened to about a dozen people commenting on her weight, calling her fat.  I was disgusted.  Britney Spears is many things... many of those things are negative... but she is NOT fat.

*sign-grumble*  And we wonder why little girls are starving themselves, and models are anorexic... we're causing it!  The media started it, but the CONSUMERS pushed it!

What is this world coming to?

[identity profile] supremediva.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't that she's fat. It was that she was FAR from in shape. She's probably about the same size she was when she was hot, only she's not toned.... which is not pretty in that skanky little outfit.

She chose to do this big comeback.... it was all hyped and she was supposed to be her normal, amazingly entertaining self. But she put on no sort of show. She was lipsyncing BADLY, she made herself look fat by her choice of outfit, barely danced, had that horrible ass weave in her hair, and almost fell on her ass twice. This girl used to be an ENTERTAINER. Girl used to put on a SHOW. Now? Nothin.

Now the most entertaining thing we get out of her is her attacking KFed's car with an umbrella.

That's sad.

[identity profile] mijan.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm not defending her for anything else. I still think she has no talent, and I should have made a comment about her lip-synching, or how much she generally sucked... but the big thing everyone is talking about is how fat she is. As I said, we can insult her for so many things... but not for being fat.

Fair?

[identity profile] supremediva.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair indeed :)

I just meant her choice of outfit made her appear "fat" (as in not tone) when she isn't. Though she's a far cry from the Britney she once was!

[identity profile] emmagrant01.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish I was as fat as Britney. :-P

[identity profile] colloween.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I was as toned as Britney!

[identity profile] emmagrant01.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
LOL, that too! And she's had two kids, so I hardly have an excuse. :-P

[identity profile] mijan.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I was as rich as Britney. She can keep the rest if it.