I'm nothing like that little tart Britney

[quip]

http://www.maj.com.nyud.net:8090/gallery/J-2/NonLEGO/aguilera.png

[Indi Guy]

1. Yeah...

Those pesky smilies between the knees really get uncomfortable.

[quip]

5. THAT is a censor's smilie!

A more risqué one would have required a kitteh of some sort.

You can post anything with an lolcat.

:hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. obsessed much?

[quip]

3. Merely presenting evidence

since some here believe that these two ladies are so different.

[MissMillie]

4. Actually some here professed that we probably don't know enough

about either of them to make that kind of assessment.

But I appreciate being called out for it... NOT

[quip]

9. I agree I agree. Time will tell

I'm just having a little fun.

We must laugh for crying with this stuff. :pals:

[MissMillie]

14. do me a favor

go to wikipedia and look up the listings for both of these women

Christina has a whole section on philanthropy: working for PETA, women's shelters, projects to fight domestic violence and AIDS, working for Amnesty International and project for humanitarian aid to Darfur.

There is no such section on Britney. Nothing.

If you don't like Wikipedia, I'm sure there's plenty of other sources to support a statement that these women have different sensibilities. Turn off Hard Copy and blow up your subscription to the Inquirer.

While there may be some similarities regarding their choice of undergarment (and let me tell you: that's a whole "damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't" thing for women) these are different women.

[quip]

18. MissMillie, here is what I'm going to do:

With all due respect for you, I am going to reserve judgment. I'm sorry but I can't spend even one minute of my life pondering CA or BS or ANYONE in Hollyweird. I just don't care. I don't watch TV and I don't read tabloids.

That said, I enjoyed exchanging ideas about the topic yesterday, not about her specifically. Really, I care more about what DUers think than I do about that stuff.

So please be patient with me; I'm still malleable (I hope!) :scared:

[MissMillie]

19. yeah, I can see where your time would run out

just as soon as someone offered up something that might change your mind.

you had plenty of time to search out that picture of CA though.

hey... whatever works for you.

[quip]

22. I'm being honest with you here

1. I don't believe anything written about "the stars". If that stuff about CA is true, that would be great, but I'm not naive to know that image consultants and "publicists" don't exist for nothing. Celebrities INVENTED them. As you say, we can't really ever know them, especially with all of our info coming from MSM.

b. It was by TOTAL COINCIDENCE that I came across that photo last night! I certainly wasn't looking for it! Yeah, it took some time to "fix it up" for DU's amusement, because I don't mind spending my time for that.

Really.

[redqueen]

21. Are you joking? You start this thread...

and then claim you can't even spend one minute of your life blah blah blah.

:crazy:

[quip]

24. I didn't mean to "start" anything!

My OP was just a snarky drive-by. What it grew into was me trying to explain to you and others what I meant by it (after being asked). I value interaction with you and others here in DU, not reading about celebs. :puke:

:hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

26. do you ever read what you write?

[quip]

30. Yes. Sometimes I even have to edit. nt

[VenusRising]

39. That was my thought exactly.

:crazy: indeed.

:hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. actually the are different, what with being 2 seperate people and not the same person

[quip]

12. You are right, and I hope the best for the two of them.

:hi:

[ThomCat]

7. Seriously. I don't understand why some people

are so damned concerned with some person they'll never speak to or meet. :shrug:

It's like being a voyeur, and judging someone else's life somehow gives their own life meaning.

[quip]

15. I don't either and I hope you don't think I'm one of those people.

Honestly, my initial remarks on this were totally in passing....

:hi:

[ThomCat]

16. Cool.

I've developed a peeve here at DU, watching people pick at celebrities, especially dead celebrities, just because they can. A comment in passing doesn't bother me, but many people here really do obsess over celebrities.

[quip]

17. I didn't know

It will be very easy for me to avoid the topic in the future :D

:thumbsup:

[DS1]

8. so tired of bullshit celeb news spam in the lounge

maybe you'll be the second bullshit celeb news spammer I put on ignore

[quip]

10. I apologize.

My orginal post was just a snarky comment in passing. I never intented it to go where it did. After that all I did was just try to put out fires by explaining what I meant. :shrug:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. its not just BS celeb news. its sexist crap.

[quip]

13. What's wrong with being sexy?

(DuStrange, PLEASE forgive... it was too much to resist!) :scared:

[Heidi]

20. In real life, do you refer to women as "tarts"?

If so, you deserve every bit of grief you're getting here.

If not, then why do it at DU?

[quip]

27. And Hollyweird stars as "Pop Tarts"

JUST KIDDING!!! To answer, "no".

Why on DU: for fun! Personally, I think "tart" is a funny term; I always think of "watery tart" from Holy Grail.

YMMV :hi:

[Heidi]

31. Look, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, but there are some points I'd like to make.

1. "Hollyweird" is a term very often used by the right to describe Hollywood liberals, who in general have been extremely supportive of the progressive movement. It is not a term often used at DU.
2. Please Google the term "tart" as a noun used to describe women. In that context, the word is used interchangably with whore, slut, etc. Just because a tabloid or rightwinger uses the term "Pop Tart" does not necessarily mean you should expect progressive women to embrace such sexist language when it's used in a _progressive_ forum.
3. If you find fun in using sexist terms to describe women, particularly when posting in a progressive community, the term may say more about your mindset than it says about the women you're attempting to chracterize.

YMMV :hi:

[quip]

37. Points well taken

Thanks! :hi:

[IndianaJones]

23. her man let her go out like that? this country is rapidly degenerating. nt.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

25. i know, amoral feminists are the downfall of the world. we should get our women to wear the chador.

that is clearly the only fitting apparel.

[IndianaJones]

28. I see it more as weak men that can't control these modern women. its sad. nt.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

29. feminization of men. the shame. the bloody shame. nt

[Heidi]

32. Don't say "bloody." You'll make some so-called progressives nauseous!

Bloody tarts, menstruating like they/we do. There oughta be a law. :eyes:

[DS1]

33. there isn't?

[Heidi]

34. I'm not surprised you missed the memo. (nt)

[DS1]

35. Good point

I was too busy riding escalators behind short skirted tarts and looking at my mirrored shoes

[Heidi]

38. While dressed in your leisure suit and wearing your X-ray glasses

that you ordered from the clip-out order form in the back of the same comic book from which you ordered your Sea Monkeys?

DS1, I love ya like crazy, despite my better judgment. :rofl: :spray:

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

36. There's at least one difference between them, Aguilera can sing

Really well, as a matter of fact. Though I'm not a fan of either, Aguilera is much better vocalist.

[Heidi]

40. On that I will agree with you.

I'm absolutely grossed out by the breathy, sultry, little-girlesque voice in which Britney Spears sings and which her recording techs mix to quasi-correct pitch. But mainly, it's the creepy, sexed-up, little-girlesque thing that bothers me.