Seriously, who is Amy Wineshoue? I’m fairly old, so I don’t know this kind of pop-culture stuff.
All I know is that everyone is up in arms over young girls like her who are drunk, out-of-control, and making a mess of their lives. The media says they need rehab, I say they need to call me so we can have a pajama party. I'll bring my silver flask filled with Absolute.
Here is what Salon wrote recently about Miss Amy Winehouse and ladies like her.
“According to a report by British organization Women in Journalism, teenage girls find "encouragement" in "the soap opera-style lives of glamorous women," even if those women are falling over drunk and look like hell [stop talking about me that way, be-atch!].
Sure, teens (of both genders) are attracted to images of celebrities supposedly living it up [Lablogda note: teens, hell! Middle-age broads like me want to live it up more]. That doesn't mean they want to replicate every aspect of their behavior. Why pin it on Winehouse? She's far from the only celebrity disaster [to the novice, this is media code for, “hello Britney. Is that a gun in your belly or are you just happy to see me?] and hers is a pretty clear-cut cautionary tale. It's hard to believe that teens see her stumbling around with blood on her satin ballet flats and scratches all over her face and think, That should be me! [Well, that might be me, so screw you.]
Teenagers are wrestling with all kinds of influences, but no one of these things is forcing them to become binge drinkers or drug addicts. In a recent study, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse cites predictable factors like low self-esteem, peer pressure and concerns about weight and appearance as the top motivations for girls to drink [as well as middle-age women]. That these things aren't sensational doesn't make them any less troubling.”
Okay, new rule: young Hollywood types need to sober up a tad (this isn't the seventies), but, at the same time, the media needs to move on and get on to more serious things than Britney’s expanding waist line (she had two kids, what do you want?). There are men, women and children dying daily in Iraq. Iran is scary because it’s Iran, and there is a short guy ruling N. Korea, and if history has taught us anything, it’s that short dudes are to be feared because THEY ARE FREAKED OUT ABOUT BEING SHORT.
So media, let the drunk gals be. Girls just want to have fun, then turn to rehab so that they can write their memoir and be the female James Frey (minus the fiction). We have a cock-eyed cowboy running our country, and as my grandpa would say, we are going to hell in a hand-basket. For God’s sakes, leave Amy Winehouse alone, and for God’s sakes, someone tell me who the hell she is.
Long live Lindsey.
