well, admitting you have a problem is the first step…
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What is the problem?
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you used the word unhealthy yourself, doesn’t that indicate a problem of some sort to you?
ninja’ed by clockwork
But is it HURTING anyone?
oy vey.
I mean seriously. If he’s going to post via Twitter half naked pics of himself that tells me he’s comfortable with me viewing him half naked!
It depends. What are you planning to do with that rope and those handcuffs? And what are the bananas for?
Why do you think your obsession with Just Bieber is, in your own words, “unhealthy”?
I guessed about 14 or 15 in those photos, without knowing his actual age.
(It was only when I read further in the thread that I learned he was 17.)
No, not being a dick. I have 2 sons, one is now 20, the other is 13.5. #1 son at 17 could shave (not every day) and had the prominent Adam’s apple etc that help define adult masculine traits. IOW, he had reached puberty and was almost through it.
#2 son at 13.5 is just starting puberty. He is suddenly lean and lanky; his hands and feet look too big for his body, his chest/upper torso muscles are not filled out, but his face remains child-like with no facial hair or just a bit of downy “beard”.
In this, he exactly resembles Justin Bieber. It is not a criticism of Mr Bieber in the slightest–he is on par with adolescents in general in “achieving” puberty. But he does not look 17 or even 16. He looks at best perhaps 14.
I have nothing for or against Mr Bieber or you. Just to drag a medical viewpoint into this, if I were his nurse and charting on him, I’d state he looked younger than his stated age, because he does.
(but I will say as a mom, the thought of someone your age squeeing over someone who looks #2 son’s age makes me nauseated. If the genders were reversed, this would have been in the Pit in about 2 seconds and rightly so).
This is inappropriate for Cafe Society, voguevixen. Please don’t do it again.
Might be hurting you?
Yikes - you’re right of course. I got agitated. Sorry.
I don’t, but society does so I’m outvoted.
To keep the alligators away!
Well, now that’s just untrue.
I only have the bedspread.
And if I could address this:
If you’re under the impression they’re attempting to pass him off as a lily white, wholesome, goody-gumdrop, role model they’re doing a piss-poor job of it.
He’s on his third tattoo, he drinks beer right out in the open and goes to gay nightclubs. He flips people off (http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/3/2/12/enhanced-buzz-20440-1299088223-6.jpg) and right and for some inexplicable reason he made the grand announcement to 16 million people (via Twitter) that he was preparing to take a dump. When he’s not boorishly grabbing his girlfriend’s boobs he’s attesting to their favorite sex position.
That having been said, he gives money away as fast as he makes it. Part of the proceeds from his Xmas album and ALL the proceeds from his perfume go to charity. The Make-a-Wish charity gave him an award for granting the most wishes last year, and he tries to visit children’s hospitals in every city he visits. EVERY CITY! When a video went viral of a girl sobbing hysterically because she couldn’t get tickets to his show, Justin saw it and tweeted: "need everyone’s help. we have LESS than 24 hours. we need to find this girl.. she is at the 30 sec mark. HELP! thanks.” and they actually FOUND her and he gave her tickets and met with her.
HE’S AWESOME! He’s like a hero and junk. I just find him really, really admirable.
Is this some kind of performance art?
nothing you’ve said is a rebuttal to my statement. All of those tween/teen stars/starlets have a very carefully crafted public image. If they’re seen in public doing something or saying something, you can bet your ass it was precisely what the corporation/management behind them wanted you to see or hear. I would almost put money on the bet that those “tweets” you talk about weren’t even written by him.
And to think I felt kinda guilty for thinking Sidney Crosby’s sexy. (He’s 24, which is nine years younger than me). I don’t feel like stalking the guy, though. Nor do I know his blood type (and I don’t really care about it.)
You think they want their 17 year-old cash cow with a 12 year-old fan base to be seen drinking beer and flipping the bird?! That warrants an interrobang!
Some are very obviously by Scooter: “Don’t forget! My new single comes out tomorrow!” But he actually does tweet - his phone is practically glued to his hand. I’ve watched him tweet on live TV, and refreshed my browser to see it. He does admit his re-tweeting is completely random though. He just logs on every so often and re-tweets a bunch of people and they die of happiness. The thing that bugs the hell out of me is there are like, apps or software of some kind that will continuously re-tweet the same message to him over and over until he sees it. (I mean, with 16 million followers, he barely sees any.) You can tell when he re-tweets a post saying something like “OMG Jus10 I <3 U so much! Please re-tweet? #BELIEBER #SWAG #LEGGO 39” That means it’s the 39th tweet the program has spammed him with. THAT IS CHEATING. Because that means he’s being so buried by this crap that he doesn’t get to see my deep meaningful tweets such as “Hey, digging the new ‘Heatmiser’ hair!” :mad:
Oh I also follow his friend Chaz - that kid is a moron for reals!
You need to have a word with yourself, vv, because this breathless obsession with a manufactured popstar would be wince-inducing in a 14 year old girl, but at least you’d know that she would grow out of it in a year or so. From a woman in her 40s swooning over a teenybopper less than half her age, it’s well beyond disturbing: as has been pointed out, if you were a male poster obsessing over a teenage girl, you would have been excoriated in the Pit long before now. Grow up, act like an adult woman, and stop humiliating yourself in public.
::shrug:: 9 years is so not a big deal. My husband is 10 years older than me and no one bats an eye at it.
It’s really odd that there’s such a double standard, and how randomly people draw the line. As someone mentioned earlier in the thread “If the sexes were reversed this would be in the Pit in 2 seconds” or something. But yet there’s this thread: My 24 yo daughter is dating a 56 yo man and everyone is like “Meh, so what?” I have no problem with a 40 year-old guy saying “Wow, Demi Levoto is hot!” because she is. She’s (I think) 19 and if it turns out she’s into 40 year-old guys, well more power to them - he hit the jackpot. To get up in arms about it is sour grapes.