The Sunday Trumpet (and a little aside)

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.

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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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