The Media's Sick Obsession With "Thin"

Okay, I'll be the first to acknowledge that Britney Spears is an untalented skank. It doesn't help her image much when she dresses and acts like a stripper. And even the media coverage has been overwhelmingly critical of her MTV Video Awards performance.

But there's one aspect of the media coverage (Hat tip: Eric Scheske) that I find particular disturbing:

"No longer boasting the buff body that helped drive her to international superstardom almost a decade ago ..."

"... out-of-shape Spears ..."

I don't know about you, but when I look at the photos in the link above, I see - skankiness aside - a young woman with a body many woman would love to have after just having back-to-back babies. But to the media, Miss Spears is "no longer buff" and "out of shape".

Is it any wonder that women do this to themselves? (Hat tip: Dale Price)

And, after running the story about Miss Spears implying that she is "fat", this particular publication has the nerve to then run, in the same section of the same issue of the paper, a story about the celebrity "skinny flu".