So I’m stuck in line at the grocery store and reading the headlines on all the magazines in the rack, and there’s the Star, one of the world’s stupidest magazines. And one of their headlines is “Britney…pregnant at last?”. Now usually this drivel doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t get worked up about Ben/Jen or Brad/Jen or Starr Jones’ wedding, or the UFO washing up in the tsunami. But Britney Spears is a girl who has been married what, 3 months, to a guy she’s known, what, 9 months? And this stupid rag is acting like she’s been trying to get pregnant for YEARS? It is an insult to everyone who has ever gotten married and tried to get pregnant. It is a slap in the face to anyone who has had infertility issues. It is a swipe at every woman over the age of 25 who wants to have children some day.
So even though it is a stupid magazine about celebrities, I Pit the Star and Britney and everyone who thinks this girl should even be trying to get pregnant. Lame, I know. But “at last?” Let’s see if the marriage lasts a year before we worry about getting the girl knocked up.
There’s your answer right there. For one thing, it’s not even a magazine. Second thing, we have no idea what Britney herself may, or may not have said about the possibility of being pregnant. Likely, it was made up over margueritas (or more likely a cozy snapping crack pipe) like most of the stuff in there. So, if anything, shouldn’t it be “bite me, Star”?
NOT that I’m any fan of the brat and her escapades, just put your angst on the appropriate target. And yeah, that sort of attitude of “pregnant at last” about a 20 something with dubious morals is insulting to those trying very hard to become pregnant, we just don’t know if SHE actually said it.
This reminds me of last Spring. We had a cold and bitter New England Winter. Then one day the temperature got up to the mid-70s. That night, the Fox “news” teaser was “Finally - a break from the heat wave.”
This isn’t the first time for insensitivity related to Britney Spears. Remember that song “You Drive Me Crazy”? How hurtful! It’s an insult to anyone who’s ever had mental health issues. Not to mention her first song, “Hit Me Baby One More Time”. That’s a slap in the face to those who suffer from domestic violence!
Why can’t people realize the need to walk on eggshells in anything they say, to prevent the chance that someone will be offended for the slightest reason?
I can understand why the headline might bother you, but how exactly is that Britney’s fault?
Anyway, I’m not defending Britney, but I can see where she’s coming from. I don’t think she is responsible for the headlines in a magazine she probably dispises anyway.
That’s a cruel and insensitive thing to say
Personally I don’t give a damn about Britney Spears. I’m way more interested in the continuing adventures of the bat boy.
To be charitable, maybe they meant “pregnant, at last” in the sense of “we can finally stop having to hold a straight face everytime she tries that virginity shtick.”
She may despise them, but she needs them like a fish needs water or you and I need air. She’d be a total nonentity if it weren’t for all the publicity she gets. In any event, I bet her publicist picked up the phone and called them for this one.
“Dubious morals”? “Miss Roundheels”? She was sexually active pre-maritally but most people don’t consider that immoral. She seems to be monogamous when she is dating someone. Her image is sexualized but it doesn’t seem that she is crazy out of whack with what most people consider moral.
“Pregnant at last” is kind of silly for a newlywed, but she has consistently said she wants to be a young mom.
Forgive me, but the extreme trashiness of her demeanor topped off lately be the pictures of her walking out of gas station restrooms with no shoes on - all that spells “skank” to me.
I don’t know what the hell “Miss Roundheels” means, but yeah she’s immoral. It ain’t the sex in itself, it’s the getting married while drunk and having it annuled immediately. It’s also the whole image of, “Look I’m young and innocent and virginal (well, not any more) and hot and sexy and dirty and don’t you wish you could have some of this?”
Anyway, it’s not like the girl is sellilng crack to young school children.
All she’s doing is belting out a few songs and showing off some skin and she’s making millions for doing so. Why all the vitrol? I’d be curious to see how many of these folks who bitch about what a sub-human Britney is; if they wouldn’t do the same thing themselves if given half the chance.
I know this probably isn’t the best place to pit her, or whatever it was in pop culture that obliges the media to shadow people like Britney and put out a press release every time she uses the toilet or orders a taco, but really, who gives a shit? Lots of women get pregnant all the time, and you don’t see their faces plastered all over magazines. Keep that ‘celebrity women that are pregnant’ shit and give me updates on UFO sightings and two-headed poltergeists wreaking havoc. Or men getting pregnant - that’s worth a tabloid headline. If it’s just Britney or Avril or Hilary, I really don’t give a shit. If I did, I’d get the news from their own respective news sources, where it will be nestled amongst the contents of their latest shopping trips and their recent romantic escapades.
“Dubious morals”? “Miss Roundheels”? She was sexually active pre-maritally but most people don’t consider that immoral. She seems to be monogamous when she is dating someone. Her image is sexualized but it doesn’t seem that she is crazy out of whack with what most people consider moral.