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lazypadawan) wrote2007-09-27 06:58 pm
lazypadawan) wrote2007-09-27 06:58 pm
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OT: A New Member of the Bimbo Pack
Move over, Britney, Lindsay, and Paris. Here comes Vanessa.
So I see on FoxNews.com that yet MORE photos of a scantily-clad (not to mention underage) Vanessa Hudgens have been "leaked." What, does this girl send out naked pictures of herself instead of Christmas cards? And what about her parents? Didn't they teach their kid anything besides making it big in Hollywood so they can mooch off of her for the rest of their lives?
Look, I can feel a smidgen of sympathy for a naïve girl who's fooled by a boyfriend who "really loves her" and wants to memorialize that love by having her pose like an amateur centerfold so he can post the pix on the internet the second the affair is over. But I have no sympathy for Hudgens. In fact, I'm not even sure if this is all unplanned. Hudgens probably doesn't want to be tagged a child star or a Disney girl for long, so she has all of these raunchy pictures of herself taken and conveniently leaked by other sources who come across as backstabbing friends. That way she can play the sympathy angle while she's showing Hollywood she can be a sexpot. Who knows? She might even be trying to get out of doing any more "High School Musical" shows out of fear it will be an albatross on her career over the long-term.
That's all pathetic enough. But what really burned my biscuits in the FoxNews.com story is a quote attributed to a so-called source close to Hudgens. This shadowy individual said something along the lines of, "Who hasn't done something like this when they were teenagers?" I was a teen back in the '80s, so we didn't have MySpace or Facebook, but we did have photography. I never did anything like that and neither did anyone else I knew. Today there are *millions* of young people who haven't either, even with beauty queens, drunken co-eds, and other exhibitionists grabbing headlines by making fools of themselves for the public eye. Why do we want to spin this sort of stupidity into normal it's-just-growing-pains behavior? Especially since in the real world, "naughty pictures" could damage someone's credibility and reputation forever. It's an insult to every teen and young adult who understands the values of self-respect and personal dignity to blow off Hudgens's attention-whoring as ordinary teenage behavior.
So I see on FoxNews.com that yet MORE photos of a scantily-clad (not to mention underage) Vanessa Hudgens have been "leaked." What, does this girl send out naked pictures of herself instead of Christmas cards? And what about her parents? Didn't they teach their kid anything besides making it big in Hollywood so they can mooch off of her for the rest of their lives?
Look, I can feel a smidgen of sympathy for a naïve girl who's fooled by a boyfriend who "really loves her" and wants to memorialize that love by having her pose like an amateur centerfold so he can post the pix on the internet the second the affair is over. But I have no sympathy for Hudgens. In fact, I'm not even sure if this is all unplanned. Hudgens probably doesn't want to be tagged a child star or a Disney girl for long, so she has all of these raunchy pictures of herself taken and conveniently leaked by other sources who come across as backstabbing friends. That way she can play the sympathy angle while she's showing Hollywood she can be a sexpot. Who knows? She might even be trying to get out of doing any more "High School Musical" shows out of fear it will be an albatross on her career over the long-term.
That's all pathetic enough. But what really burned my biscuits in the FoxNews.com story is a quote attributed to a so-called source close to Hudgens. This shadowy individual said something along the lines of, "Who hasn't done something like this when they were teenagers?" I was a teen back in the '80s, so we didn't have MySpace or Facebook, but we did have photography. I never did anything like that and neither did anyone else I knew. Today there are *millions* of young people who haven't either, even with beauty queens, drunken co-eds, and other exhibitionists grabbing headlines by making fools of themselves for the public eye. Why do we want to spin this sort of stupidity into normal it's-just-growing-pains behavior? Especially since in the real world, "naughty pictures" could damage someone's credibility and reputation forever. It's an insult to every teen and young adult who understands the values of self-respect and personal dignity to blow off Hudgens's attention-whoring as ordinary teenage behavior.
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