It’s a meeting of the minds in this week’s HX when journo Lawrence Ferber faces off with former boy bander Lance Bass.
In addition to discussing Bass’ new role in Hairspray, the politics of outing and Bass’ recently released memoir, the boys also find time to talk Britney:
Ferber: Ever say to yourself, Oh, Britney?
Bass: [Laughs] Yeah. I think that’s just the typical thing to say every day when you wake up and read AOL news page. You have to admit it’s entertaining. I always hope she’s just doing it as a joke and we’re all going to be Punk’d in a couple of years–like, “You know all that stuff I did, it was all a joke!” I think she’s been doing this documentary for years, where she’s like, “Today I’m going to shave my head and see if they buy it!”
Yes, wouldn’t that be nice? We’d love for Britney to shout, “Fooled y’all!”
Unfortunately, the idea of Britney Spears possessing a shred of sanity seems pretty implausible. What’s more, we seriously doubt that girl has the imagination and ingenuity to pull off such elaborate feats without the aid of some internal turmoil.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Leland Frances
Wishful thinking about his trailer trash pop tart friend nothwithstanding, Sir Lancelot is definitely growing. He said in another interview recently that he tries to contribute just by being out more than an “activist” because he doesn’t feel qualified and fears saying the wrong thing. He also apologized for originally sounding so caustic toward gays whose courage and sacrifices paved the way to his rather painless exit from the closet.
One can easily imagine that he was influenced at the time by the bitterness of my personal hero, yet seems to have something of a revolving door in his attitudes about him. He tells “HX” in the same interview you quoted that he congratulated him on his role in the Meat Puppet Theatre production “Dante’s Cove,” but similar to the radically different opinion he shared with “GQ” is this from a recent “Newsweek”:
“Every single person I’ve dated, girl or guy, I’m really close with, except for the last one. He definitely broke my heart. After, you look back and say, ‘Was I that stupid’? I did see him at an event in April. He had a new boyfriend. I think he had this one well before we broke up.”
Which would make it before this Whore Hiding In Plain Sight video gem, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtaP53seOnE
sasa
I hate to defend Britney Spears: But if she were a man she’d be parent
of the year
I hate to defend Britney Spears, I really do, and not because she’s a
bad mother — I have no idea what kind of mother she is outside of
what is forced on me through the news — but because she’s so
pilloried in the press these days, I’m loathe to attract the hatchet
my way.
But here is the thing that bugs the motherly crap out of me about
Britney Spears: She’s 26, and not only does she financially support
her children and their father, she arguably financially supports his
children from a previous relationship as well, plus the children in
the households of any number of administrative and creative people
(hundreds, probably) whose incomes are directly derived from her work.
Most fathers would be heralded for that. Yet Britney is vilified
because she, among other things, performed (very badly) at the MTV
Music Video Awards last September while her ex-husband stayed home
with their sons and threw them a double birthday party. Never mind
that it wasn’t even Britney’s sons’ birthdays that night.
Never mind that, a few days later, when it was her kids’ actual
birthdays, Britney might have been home giving them pony rides and
lactating all over them with motherly love for all we know. Never mind
that it’s totally customary for divorced parents to each hold their
own separate birthday celebrations for their children. Never mind
that.
OK, Christ. I do mind that. Because why should one parent be derided
for working to provide for her kids, while her jobless ex who earned
less than $8,000 last year is practically proclaimed a saint for
opening up a packet of party hats somewhere within the week of their
kids’ actual birthdays?
I mind that. Just like I mind a recent article reporting that a judge,
in a private proceeding, cited Britney’s “drug- and alcohol-infused
lifestyle,” and then three paragraphs later it states that this same
judge had ordered the transcripts from the proceedings sealed. My
question is, how the hell does this reporter know what the judge said
in a private proceeding if the transcripts were sealed?
And what exactly did Britney do to lose custody of her kids? She had a
fender bender while trying to park? Were the fenders made of babies?
She lacked a California driver’s license? Since when does the state
listed on your driver’s license determine your abilities as a parent?
I don’t have a California driver’s license. I drive in California with
my Georgia license all the time. I don’t think that makes me a bad
mother any more than it makes another mother bad for driving there
with a Louisiana one, as Britney did.
Hit and run? The other car was parked, its driver not there, and its
fender not bent. Britney’s choice to leave without putting a note on
the windshield is not one I would have made, but that choice relates
to my conscientiousness as a person, not to my abilities as a mother.
Now, if Britney was driving drunk, say, or on drugs, then that would
be a valid point, but she’s never been convicted or even accused of
that by the police. She has, though, been accused of “habitual,
frequent and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol” –
but that accusation was made by her ex-husband, not by a police
officer or narcotics investigator or any other outside authority that
I can tell, and the fact that a family law judge ordered Britney to
undergo drug testing doesn’t mean she’s a drug addict, it just means
she’s been accused of being one by her ex-husband. And the fact that
she missed a testing appointment doesn’t necessarily make her a bad
mother, either, just a busy one.
And Britney partied, so what? She shared custody of her children with
their father; why should her behavior during K-Fed’s custodial period
matter at all unless it’s illegal? She’s young and rich with money
that she earned, her kids are cared for in homes that she provides
them, she agreed to share custody of them with her ex as well as pay
him child support so he could afford to be with them as much as she
was – Lord, if she were a man she’d be parent of the year.
Like I said, I hate to defend Britney Spears, but in the end I’m not
defending her in particular. I’m defending any parent who worked to
support their children while their children’s other parent chose not
to and then that parent, the working one, went on to face derision
afterward – along with an insanely arbitrary and uneven set of
standards – during a custody fight. Britney’s experience in the court
system is now a blueprint for future custody cases, a future in which
a parent can lose their kids not for being a bad parent, but for being
a bad bureaucrat.
Source: Creative Loafing.com
Matt
I like lance way more than Reichen. I think Reichen cheated that same weekend he was at Outwrite with Davis from the Real World and some third guy. No, it wasn’t me. My dick isn’t big enough to fill up those holes.
I think though in regards to this post I would have rather heard about Benjamin Bradley dropping trou and breaking up with Ethan.
newyorkie
Is that his natural eye color? His eyes look frighteningly pale.
Mr.D
Do people have anything better to do than write paragraphs on a gay blog? Jobs?