Just Throw the Small Ones Back

I don't want to have to do this again. I feel dirty, but I am going to defend Britney Spears. I know, I know. It shocks me too, but she has been getting attacked quite a bit lately and I think much of it is just mean and without merit.

I had started feeling sorry for her for a few months ago, but not to the point of actually feeling the need to defend her. After the release of a videotape and reading how others have seen it, I feel I must add my two cents.

Britney Spears was a lightning rod for years, but it appears to me that she is retired. The only time she makes the news now is not through her publicist, but rather through the paparazzi that follow her every move.

Is she a bad mother? I must ask anyone asking that question who judged them fit to be a parent? She is a mother and she will make mistakes. We also seem to forget, possibly because she has been in the limelight for so long, that she is only twenty-three years old. I was an idiot at twenty-three. I am still one today. How together were you at twenty-three and how together would you appear if cameras followed your every move?

A videotape came out last week that showed Britney down on herself, not dressed up, and maybe too relaxed. The press has had a field day with it, attacking her looks, her attitude, and everything else they can think of. They seemed to pass on her talking about drinking while pregnant, but oh well. It is a glimpse into the real person and many people seem to be upset with how real she actually is.

She is a twenty-three-year-old mother. That is all. A belching, cursing, joking around, and pain-feeling mother and wife. It was a side of her not seen before. It actually turned me around a bit. It showed her not being "Britney Spears", but rather just being a girl from Louisiana. She isn't bright, but she is a twenty-three-year-old girl who has been in the spotlight since she was twelve, so I am positive her education suffered.

Article Author: Brad Schader

I have been told by my friends that I am a politics junkie with a Ph.D. in Pop Culture, specializing in conspiracy and film. I have always felt that, much like we study old plays and poems, that the meaning of life can be found in movies and song lyrics. …

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