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Travelling Punk pricks mainstream media's hype-balloon surrounding Britney Spears' shaved head: "Britney shaves her hair off - the media reports she is loosing her mind. In and of itself, shaving your head does not mean you are going mad - it means you wanted to shave your head."
She goes on to point to a BBC article where "there are some great encouraging comments from both women and men who think that it is not the 'break down' the media are protraying it as."
She's right -- here's the first comment from David in Birmingham which I just have to quote:
"For a man, a shaved head is perfectly acceptable. I think when women shave their hair, especially in this case, it's rebbelling against society and showing a 'free spirit'. I think it's great that whilst most female celebs are competing to be the thinest and most 'attractive', Britney is basically saying 'I'm going to do what I want, when I want and I don't care what you think about it!'"
You can read more of "What is it with everyone?" at Travelling Punk.
Feminist Bite's incisive post underlines how the media is more aghast at long blonde hair being cut:
"Also, did you notice how many newsreaders, at least in the UK, referred to her 'long blonde locks'? As any pathetic celebrity site viewer will know, Britney hasn't been blonde for a long time! Plus her hair was 90% extensions. But I guess cutting long blonde hair is somehow more of a waste …"
And if you're sick of the whole Britney thing, take a look at Samhita Mukhopadhyay's post, "Hypermasculinity, Hip-hop and Lady Rappers fighting Misogyny". This is a collection of pointers with the author's own thoughts.
She opens:
"All of this just fell into my lap at once so I thought I would lump it into one post about hip-hop and spotlight films, activism and music that is going down showing the changing face of hip-hop and responding to the hypermasculinity portrayed in mainstream hip hop today."
Read the rest at Feministing.
Image: Gawker (top), BBC News (bottom)
Melinda Casino's personal blog is Sour Duck.
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To be honest I really love
andreea360 March 28, 2008 - 12:38pm
To be honest I really love her last song 'you want a piece of me' .. she really wants peace. Imagine if it was you in her shoes, like any celebrity you'd hate the press! At least she came clean .. for now .. but who knows perhaps we will see her next doing laundry in a drug rehab center!