Alright ya'll, get some coffee and belly up to the kitchen table, we've got a lot of ground to cover.
Bossman is out on sales calls the rest of this week. He's been in such a pissy mood lately and although he has good reason to be, it's nice to get a break. Things are getting a little rough around the Cubicle Asylum, customers are angry, management is pulling their hair out, it's like an episode of The Office with a little bit of Laverne and Shirley tossed in. In the midst of all the anger and finger pointing of management an odd thing has happened. All of the office peeons are getting long.
You didn't read that wrong. Thelma and Louise, Bubbles, Lulu and myself are all happy campers, joking around and carrying on like we have good sense. It's weird. I think it's because we've had to sort of band together against the Powers That Be, who've never had to get their hands dirty with the day to day operation of things and as a result are slowly losing their grip. We've stopped trying to reason with them, to get them to listen to us and have decided to just do exactly what they say.. when "they" obviously don't have a clue.
You have to laugh or go crazy.
I've been avoiding commenting on the Britney Spears VMA performance Sunday night, but I can't stand it anymore. I have to put my two cents in. I may piss some people off, but they'll get over it.. or not. Whatever.
I didn't see the performance Sunday night, but I've seen the gazillion copies of it that are posted all over the internet. I'll agree that it wasn't a good performance. I'll agree that she doesn't have the body that she used to. But...
GIVE IT A FARKIN' REST ALREADY!!
Geeze-o-pete! I'll agree that she made a bad fashion choice, does she really deserve the public reaming she's getting? She's had two babies, no she doesn't look like she did five years ago. Who does? Do you? More importantly.. why do the comedians, talk show hosts and every gossip web site trying to pass themselves off as "news" have to jump on the bandwagon and try to rip the poor girl a new one? Does it make you laugh? It doesn't entertain me in the least. It makes me feel uncomfortable. It embarrasses me.
Did ya'll hear about Sarah Silverman's comments during the VMA show that the Spears children were "the cutest little mistakes you've ever seen?" My God. Is it so hard for her to come up with a joke without attacking someone's babies? That makes my skin crawl. Is this what we consider entertainment in this world? Making fun of someone's children? Why is that funny?
It's not. It's pure hate. To intentionally cause someone pain in a public venue for the sake of a laugh is bullying. Do you remember bullies on the playground? Isn't that exactly what they did? Hasn't that behavior been targeted as the root cause of violent outbreaks in educational environments? We spend government funding implementing "anti-bullying" programs in the elementary schools with the purpose of teaching our children that it's wrong and will not be tolerated, yet MTV pays Sarah Silverman what I'm sure is an obscene amount of money to do it right there in our living rooms.
Disgusting.
And just for the record, why the hell is MTV holding "Video Music Awards?" I can't remember the last time I saw a video on MTV.
I'm not a fan of Britney Spears. I don't know if she's having a breakdown, if her kids are properly supervised or if she dances around a statue of Minnie Pearl in her backyard, naked under the new moon, chanting the lyrics to "Love Me Tender" in Portuguese. It doesn't matter. When we publicly attack people who seem vulnerable for the purpose of entertainment, we're recreating the Roman Coliseum where the jeering mob cried out for the blood of the weak.
Is this how far we've come?
6 comments:
I have the same wonderful body I had 5 years ago, maybe a little more of it then I had then.
DG
*snort* I'm not commenting on my body lol.
I hadn't heard about Sarah Silverman's comment but I find it thoroughly inappropriate. But then I've never found her the least bit amusing.
Bravo Gal!
I agree completely. Britney made a bad clothing choice, but her performance (or lack of) should be commented on, not her body. Though I do feel more might have been better - material wise.
But yes - Sarah Silverman... pick and bully (good term there) on the people that put themselves in the limelite - NOT their poor kids who don't even have a choice what to eat for dinner. Leave innocents out of it.
Well, as you know, I'm someone who *did* blog about Britney's performance ... but you make an interesting point about bullying, I hadn't thought of it in that way.
However, I have seen first-hand (which I *may* one day write about - right now it's still too painful to recall) what celebrity and unlimited cash can do to someone who is a warm hearted, decent person, but maybe a little unstable to begin with. It's not a pretty sight.
You may not believe me, but vast public derision might be just about the only thing that will break through the wall of sycophants and "yes-men" that she has no doubt surrounded herself with after firing her former managers and cutting ties with her own family.
Normal people who develop substance abuse issues don't have the money, or star power, to run away from their problems forever. They lose their job, they lose their family, they're on the streets, they hit rock bottom and hopefully finally get the help they need.
Think of the bashing as a kind of "tough love". It seems like it's mean, but in reality I hope it's a clanging wake-up call to her.
I think you're right about being surrounded by "yes-men" being part of the problem and maybe being put through the ringer will be what shakes her out of it. I mean, we talked about it around the coffee pot at work, cracked a few jokes. I think it was the shot about her kids that really upset me.
I've calmed down since this morning lol.
I saw the video you posted by the way and it cracked me up :)
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