Spears: Republican governor's wife "probably needs to get laid"

[Paragon]

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,540763_4_0_,00.html (requires access code)

And throw in all the other stresses and strains of being the world's most scrutinized 21-year-old pop star -- the grueling video shoots, the countless interviews, the big-dollar endorsements, the endless grind of disrobing for magazine covers, not to mention the hurtful backlash from conservative Brit-haters like Kendel Ehrlich, the governor of Maryland's wife, who announced her desire to ''shoot'' Spears (while speaking at a domestic-violence conference, of all places) -- and it's easy to see why the poor girl got the flu.

''She probably needs to get laid,'' Spears says, rolling her eyes, when asked about that trigger-happy governor's wife. ''These parents, they think I'm a role model for their kids, that their kids look at me as some sort of idol. But it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't turn out that shallow. It's the parents who should be teaching their kids how to behave. That's not my responsibility. I'm not responsible for your kid.''

[HEyHEY]

1. haha

"''These parents, they think I'm a role model for their kids, that their kids look at me as some sort of idol. But it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't turn out that shallow"

Finally she admits it

[CanuckAmok]

4. Reminds me of a line from M*A*S*H:

Col. Flagg: "Yopu're not smart, fella, you're stupid! But you've finally met your match."

[HEyHEY]

8. lol

I love Col Flagg.

[papau]

2. governor of Maryland's wife is 5 months gone - so she may be right!

GOP types tend to stop and find "friends" while the wife is pregnant.

[bluestateguy]

3. She should be voting with us

YEs, she'll pay a little more in taxes, but we are the ones who respect eclectic individual self-expression and sexual freedom. In the long run, our side's greater respect for sexual freedom and self-expression is better for Spears economically. And of course, it's the Democrats who unfortunately have been doing more to crack down on file sharing :eyes: .

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Keith Olberman hit it on the head...

<snip>Speaking of self-destructive celebrities upon whom we may look back some day, amazed not by their stupidity, but rather by our willingness to admit them into society, there’s also Britney Spears. Remember the stupid remark by the wife of the governor of Maryland, Kendel Ehrlich, telling a symposium on violence against women that Spears was projecting the exact wrong image for teenage girls, and then she said, if I had an opportunity to shoot Britney Spears, I think I would?

Ms. Ehrlich later apologized profusely. But a month later, Spears has now responded in the pages of “Entertainment Weekly” magazine. She says of the wife of the governor of Maryland-quote-”She probably needs to get laid”-unquote. Ms. Ehrlich’s complaint was that, as a role model to teenage girls, Spears was reducing all of existence to being a sex object for men. Nice of Ms. Spears to prove the first lady’s point. </snip>
http://www.msnbc.com/news/993634.asp

[Paragon]

9. I love Keith, but...

Telling someone they "need to get laid" to just slang for "loosen up". In this case, it's that and a nice jab at the prudishness of the morality police.

Keith's show is all about quick hits and sound bytes, and reading that quote literally makes for a nice, short bit that you can read and then throw to commercial.

[Sting]

6. haha..

What Spears said there states what all republican wives need. :D Spears rocks after saying that! :yourock:
Sting

[Maddy McCall]

7. Needs to get laid? The gov's wife was five months pregnant when...

spears made the remark.

They are both goofy...both of 'em.

[Paragon]

11. I'm sure she doesn't know that

The governor's wife is a hell of a lot more interested in Britney's sex life than Britney is in hers -- which, thankfully, is how it should be.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

10. "It's the parents who should be teaching their kids how to behave"

gee, that's actually an intelligent comment.

"But it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't turn out that shallow. It's the parents who should be teaching their kids how to behave. That's not my responsibility. I'm not responsible for your kid.'' "


Although actually, I'd go a little farther and say it's the kids responsibility to make sure they aren't brainwashed by their parents, the media, their friends, their school etc. and learn to think for themselves...

As for the "probably needs to get laid" comment... well, it's funny, who can deny that?

[Grins]

17. Well, I will...

”… it's funny, who can deny that?

I’m going to disagree with you. The first time I heard that comment I thought, “Oh, jeeeeez. Why did she have to say THAT?

Of all the comments she could have made, why say that? She could have said what another poster mentioned about parents being role models and left it at that. She would have been “the better person” and left the Governor’s wife looking really bad. She didn’t. She took the low road and came out worse.

Maybe it’s just me, but this is just another example of the coarsening of our public discourse, and I’m tired of it.

For Britney, I’ll leave with Shakespeare:

"Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt!" (King Richard the Third)

I don't know if I'd stand in line for a kiss from Britney (I was in the Army and definately have an opinion on that), but I might!

[Paragon]

18. Dude...

...she's a pop star - she bears no responsibility on "coarsening of our public discourse". A governor's wife, on the other hand...

As Jack Black reminded us in School of Rock, being a rock star is all about sticking it to The Man. And The Man's dumbass wife.

[efhmc]

12. That is not funny or appropriate. It is a extremely sexist comment used

to put women in their place, which is as sexual companions to men. I do agree with Britney's statement about role models. People freaked out about Madonna when my daughters were young. It was stupid then and it is stupid now. Parents who are upset by this have little or no idea what makes reality for their kids and have many more problems with child rearing than pop singers.

[Johnyawl]

13. Oh, nonsense!

It is a extremely sexist comment used to put women in their place, which is as sexual companions to men

I hear it said about men every bit as much as I hear it said about women. (I've been saying it about Jerry Falwell for 25 years.)

Paragon hit the nail on the head earlier in this thread, Telling someone they "need to get laid" to just slang for "loosen up". In this case, it's that and a nice jab at the prudishness of the morality police.

[efhmc]

15. I stand by my statement as one denoting power over another and it

used in a sexist frame. A male will not be the one to convince me otherwise.

[Paragon]

16. As DU's preeminent smartass, I'm obligated to tell you...

...you probably need to get laid. :silly:

[Paragon]

14. It's about as "appropriate"...

...as saying "I'd like to shoot her" at a domestic violence conference. :eyes:

I don't buy the sexist arguement, either. The pressure to "get laid" is just as bad with boys. In fact, I'd say it's worse - which is why some teenage boys act like little monsters when it comes to girls.

Like I said earlier, it's slang - and I'm sure it's said just as often (or more often) to men.