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

[mijan]

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?

Comments

[poetheather.livejournal.com]

I think she has sacrificed her talent at the altar of Drama. I think Paris Hilton turned her into a moral-less zombie minion. If she can break free and realize that entertaining is about well...you know entertaining, she might be able to crawl back. Maybe.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Meh. I never liked Britney's "music", and never paid attention to her either way. So, whatever she does, it doesn't much matter to me, because I never liked her anyway. Every time I hear something about her in the news, she's being stupid, but there are stupid people all over the place. Britney just happens to be famous, dresses like a whore, and too many little girls try to emulate her. *shrugs* At one point, she was a little bit talented. More of her fame, from what I could tell, was fabricated though.