On Jan 5, 8:34 pm, Michelle la Belle
hotmail.com> wrote:> On Jan 5, 2:01 pm, "Rhiannon"
rogers.com> wrote:
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>>> The story of Britney Spears is the story of a destruction of a
>>> beautiful, talented star by a heartless abusive scoundrel, an ignorant
>>> court, a predatory media, and apathetic hypocritical public. And it is
>>> indictment of the character of all those who participated in this
>>> predatory act.
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>> More likely all of that exacerbated her predisposition to mental illness,
>> which runs in her family. Her paternal grandmother, Emma Jean Spears
>> suffered from severe depression. She tried to committ suicide three times
>> over a period of a few years and was finally successful on her fourth
>> attempt at the age of 31 after shooting herself in the chest with a shotgun.
>> A lot of Britney's behaviour is so classically bipolar I find it difficult
>> to understand why mental health treatment was not addressed much sooner than
>> this.
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>> I don't think it's particularly helpful to blame anyone, but what I will say
>> about all of this, is there needs to be new laws put in place that restrict
>> photographers from relentlessly hounding celebrities. Celebrity is a career
>> choice like any other job and it should not give people license to harrass
>> them, stalk them, and intrude on their private lives. When they are "off
>> the clock" they are simply ordinary citizens deserving of the same level of
>> respect and privacy under the law as anyone else.
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>> Case in point are these upskirt photographs that circulate. Not long ago a
>> man was arrested by police when a woman caught him taking upskirt
>> photographs of her in a department store. Turns out he had been doing this
>> to thousands of women over a number years and had a collection of pictures
>> to prove it. He was treated like a sex offender, convicted, and put in
>> jail. Yet in a display of blatant hypocrisy when the paparazzi do the same
>> thing to a celebrity he gets rich and the public blames the woman. Talk
>> about a fucked up double standard.
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>>> I'm hoping that it be Mr.Timberlake, as he is the only person in all of
>>> this who's acted in anything like worthy manner.
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>> I agree with this. Judging by a couple of interviews I saw in which he
>> literally speaks for himself he seems like a decent man who cares about what
>> happens to her. I don't need to know her personally to feel badly about
>> this. I don't care who she is or how much money she has, she's just a
>> mentally ill person in crisis, like a lot of us here were and still are, and
>> I find the whole situation terribly sad for all involved.
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>> Rhi
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> Yep, the media will keep goiing until they have destroyed her, the
> way they destroyed Lady Diana. And as for mental health care? Peh! It
> fails we ordinary folks, the military, Spears, and even Lady Diana:
> though she did receive treatment, for all her money and status, she
> couldn't be cured.
In the case of Diana, the "illness" was royal attitudes and protocols
which had been in place for centuries and which decided what she
supposedly could and could not do.
There was no cure.
But it was fun watching some of those protocols change, FAST, when an
enraged public, for a few brief enjoyable moments in the days after
Diana's death, turned on the "royal" family and damn near collapsed
the whole sorry pretension.
Sort of a portent of things to come.
Citizen Jimserac
