By now you'd have heard or read about the shocking, if not twisted, news about Britney's kid sista's pregnancy..if you haven't shame on you...
Despite the day-old news -I had to take a double-look yesterday morning thinking it was her character in the Nickelodeon chow Zoey 101 that was pregnant! - I'm still unsure whether to sympathise with her and her family's plight (mostly brought on by the controversy-trotting Britney herself), condemn her, have a good laugh about it or simply shrug if off.
And..as if the storks haven't been busy these past couple of months, Lily Allen's joined the baby-wagon now.
You may recall my entry last week on Jessica Alba's pregnancy which was then followed up by an interesting outtake by Medulla:
"I think it's more of a cultural thing in the west where it's no longer seen as a taboo thing as compared to before.
In our asian context, the existing stigma about out-of-wedlock pregnancies is still rife and that compounded by strong family values acts as ongoing barriers to asians adopting the same laxities in lifestyle and attitude.
As it stands, in more developed cosmopolitan asian cities like Hong Kong, KL, Jakarta and Singapore, you don't see many (inc. high profile celebs) adopting the same lifestyle approaches as in the west, despite all the modernisation and globalisation over time.
If anything, any out-of-wedlock pregnancies here are usually unplanned or accidental - as opposed to deliberate, self-empowered 'I-want-to-be-a-single-parent' choices like we see in the West..."
Both Jamie Lyn and Lily Allen represent a combination of 'unplanned or accidental' and 'deliberate, self-empowered choices' and it's this combination which is a cause for concern from where I stand, particularly where high profile celebrities are sometimes looked up as role models.
That aside, maybe (and I'm being overly-cautious here) it's high time the attention is deviated to someone other than Britney. That girl deserves a good kick in the butt..is asking the judge to throw her in jail (asking) too much??
Despite the day-old news -I had to take a double-look yesterday morning thinking it was her character in the Nickelodeon chow Zoey 101 that was pregnant! - I'm still unsure whether to sympathise with her and her family's plight (mostly brought on by the controversy-trotting Britney herself), condemn her, have a good laugh about it or simply shrug if off.
And..as if the storks haven't been busy these past couple of months, Lily Allen's joined the baby-wagon now.
You may recall my entry last week on Jessica Alba's pregnancy which was then followed up by an interesting outtake by Medulla:
"I think it's more of a cultural thing in the west where it's no longer seen as a taboo thing as compared to before.
In our asian context, the existing stigma about out-of-wedlock pregnancies is still rife and that compounded by strong family values acts as ongoing barriers to asians adopting the same laxities in lifestyle and attitude.
As it stands, in more developed cosmopolitan asian cities like Hong Kong, KL, Jakarta and Singapore, you don't see many (inc. high profile celebs) adopting the same lifestyle approaches as in the west, despite all the modernisation and globalisation over time.
If anything, any out-of-wedlock pregnancies here are usually unplanned or accidental - as opposed to deliberate, self-empowered 'I-want-to-be-a-single-parent' choices like we see in the West..."
Both Jamie Lyn and Lily Allen represent a combination of 'unplanned or accidental' and 'deliberate, self-empowered choices' and it's this combination which is a cause for concern from where I stand, particularly where high profile celebrities are sometimes looked up as role models.
That aside, maybe (and I'm being overly-cautious here) it's high time the attention is deviated to someone other than Britney. That girl deserves a good kick in the butt..is asking the judge to throw her in jail (asking) too much??
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