“It says so much about what our culture values. Our complaint isn’t that the 25-year-old former pop princess cavorted around onstage in a black bikini and knee-high boots, it’s that she did it with less-than-rock-solid abs. We aren’t in an uproar because the mother of two young boys pranced through a sexually explicit dance routine to a vulgar song entitled ‘Gimme More’ on national television; the really atrocious thing is that she couldn’t make it through the dance moves with the precision and skill of her jail-bait teenage years and that she frequently slipped up in her lip-syncing.
“Brit isn’t being derided all over the Web for looking and acting like a prostitute or stripper; she’s the object of sarcasm and pity because she looks like a woman who has had two babies in the last two years and who maybe isn’t doing 1,000 crunches a day anymore.”
