Keep the razor away
Omigod. Britney Spears shaved her head. She is now officially bald.
Gad. I feel so sorry for this person. Sure she has millions of dollars in the bank; and sure, she’s
an internationally-known pop star (my opinion on her music is not the issue here, though);
but she has recently divorced from her husband, she’s raising two kids on her own; she’s
the subject of so many nasty rumors (some are actually true, especially the ones that say that she goes around without underwear and that she hasn’t been taking good care of herself. The pictures are so sad) and she’s just, well, devastated.
Money really can’t buy you love and happiness.
She really should just check into rehab or something.
Oh yeah she did — but she left after one day.
Britney Spears, bald. She is not Sinead ‘0 Connor. She shaved her head because she’s sad and she’s distraught and she probably can’t take care of herself anymore. She doesn’t have the energy or the ability to focus.
Yeah, yeah, I know - why the heck am I writing about Britney Spears, and so what if she uglified herself by taking a razor to her own scalp and cutting off her own mane?
I have long hair. It’s almost done to my waist. It takes me at least ten minutes in the shower to shampoo it, and another ten to rinse off. When I comb it, arm and shoulder aches afterward because I have to run the comb through the strands at least a hundred times to get rid of the tangles and make sure that I don’t look like I’ve been dragged through the brambles by the hair.
Every two hours at work I check into the john to see if I still look human, that my hair isn’t too wild.
So there. Imagine all that effort! It takes me three minutes to decide what to wear every day, but 30 all in all just to fix my hair.
Even when I’m in funk and feel like just staying indoors to gripe and groan, I still comb my hair. Actually, I’ve noticed that the more upset I am about the world, my personal life, work, etc, the more attention I pay to how I look and whether my hair looks like Medusa’s or not. Because nothing sucks more than being in pain (or being upset, etc) than everybody else knowing about it.
BUT BRITNEY SHAVED HER HAIR RIGHT OFF. She walked into a tattoo parlor, grabbed an electric shaver, and went to work. The attendants said that she looked pretty spaced out while she was doing it; and that she told them that she was sick and tired ‘of dealing with it all,’ whatever ‘all is.’ The divorce, the mean gossip, everything.
Tsk-tsk-tsk. I feel bad for her and her two kids, they’re just babies. Somebody should just adopt Britney Spears and give her a hug or something. Her family doesn’t seem to be doing much to help her. Somebody should also pay closer attention to her, who knows what else she’ll do the next time she picks up a razor.
Maybe when she’s more sane she could try and do what the late Princess Diana did — make use of all the crazy media attention and publicity in support of good causes. Maybe she could campaign against drug addiction, or homelessness, or lack of allocations for public schools and hospitals. Maybe she could campaign against George Bush even. Gad. She’s 24? 25?
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