Brit

So, as I mentioned in last night's post, I caught a glimpse of the VMAs on MTV. Personally, I think it is ironic that MTV hosts the Video Music Awards when they never play videos anymore, but that is another post...

All of the hoopla at this year's show was centered around Britney Spears, because, naturally, last night was supposed to be her big "comeback" performance after sever turbulent and tumultuous years. Well, it wasn't exactly the "comeback" that everyone was expecting, and she wasn't the same Britney that we all used to know and love. Yes, lip-synched, and, yes, she was a wee bit unsteady while she danced in her heels. As to be expect--and sadly, actually--she was ripped apart by the media the next day. Granted, the performance wasn't her best, but--sadly, again--the majority of the critics focused on her weight. Wait a minute, What? She might not look the way she did a few years ago, but she's also had two kids since then and she has other "issues." But, honestly, does she look all that different from the typical woman on the street? She looks like what the average woman looks like, and is that a bad thing? I suppose by the media's standards, it is a bad thing. These days the picture of normal is stick-thin and anorexic. Bones, unhealthy skin, and unhealthy hair are all you see in the majority of celebrities these days. Personally, I don't see anything sexy about being able to count all 206 bones through a woman's skin. But, these days, a woman with even the slightest amount of meat on her bones is immediately called fat. Who cares if a woman has meat on her bones as long as she is healthy? This is all ironic because there was once a time when a voluptuous woman was the ideal. But now curves and healthy weight are a bad thing. No wonder so many women have body image problems. The entertainment world--and the rest of the world for that matter--can keep its stick-thin women. I'll take a healthy woman with curves any day.

This is a random post...and I'm not even drinking yet...