I am laughing out loud. Or should I say, we here at Surface Earth are laughing out loud?

I’m trolling the internet and finding bash after bash on not just Britney Spears, (did they say she had “stipper” gear on? Please, don’t even get us started), but countless other performers.

Here is what we know:

1. Most people sing in the shower; and

2. Most people sing in the car; and

3. Most people sing most anywhere no one else will hear them.

So, the rest of us tone-deaf brats actually think we have a front row seat to critique? I guess so, according to this article from Chicago Tribune. (Hint, hint: 3rd article down, entitled: The Britney Spears disaster at MTV’s Video Music Awards)(Oh I’m sorry, would that be: The Britney Spears’ disaster….?).
I wish the author would upload a YouTube video of a song, then again, only if he/she winds up being the next Paul Potts.

Cheers for a better tomorrow.

And, oh, hey Britney? If they say you wore stripper gear, I hope they meant it in the best sense of women out there who know of no better choice of how to support families. What’s that saying about us as a society? Women strip to make money that they can’t otherwise earn using other parts of their brain? We reward and then slap them for it?

Oh please. It’s getting very old.

Let me reiterate an old post here:

“Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only our own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is a form of violence.”

Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle

Ok, I must ask, have we nothing better to do with ourselves than criticize Britney Spears?

I glossed over news articles the — news? —last few days but today’s headline stopped me in my tracks:

Britney was bad, yes. But ‘fat’?

Actually, it is some of the headlines quoted within the headline of the above CNN article that got me going.

You see, I watched the awards and what I saw was someone who maybe was a bit nervous, maybe not, but that was my impression of the young woman. The second thing that hit me was, wow, she had two kids, isn’t she in wonderful shape?

Is she that much of a threat to some part of society I am unaware of that even her body must take verbal abuse?

Maybe it’s just me, but the use of the word “fat”, the existence of the word, just seems plain ludicrous.  So does the constant criticism of the young woman most of us will never know.  Have to wonder, why is it that so many enjoy seeing others down, and if in fact not down, well then certainly throwing enough energy their way to hopefully land them there?

Sigh.