Lindsay Lohan: "Hot, Ready, and Legal!"

and her being a child actor then young woman actor in hollywood

Yeah true

really weird thing when former child actors or young women actors end up "troubled" as they get older and everyone reaches for some bromides about "too much too young", the pressures of fame, the media glare etc. when the elephant in the room is abuse, exploitation, neglect

Yup. Hollywood teems with young Lohans and abusive stage parents, but also with Weinsteins and Polanskis.

abuse, exploitation

this is fame

(in this context)

I feel like people’s addiction shouldn’t be treated as entertainment, which lindsay’s was back in the mid-00s. No one treats other diseases like this.

It’s always amazing to me how heartless tabloid culture is. Like if I read the top voted comment on any daily mail article—not something I do often—but it’s always coming from this perspective of no compassion whatsoever.

Because they get held up as role models when they are young, then any transgression is held up to ridicule and is not tolerated.

Amber and Alice would take an interest in what LL would do, but they could understand bad behaviour does no good.

I think there’s a darker thing at work. I think people enjoy watching someone struggle—especially a rich, beautiful etc. person—a “serves them right” attitude. In the end that tabloid stuff is consumed as entertainment.

But also some people are famous, young AND awful

What’s going on between Lindsay Lohan and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia? https://t.co/QtuByRhOqW pic.twitter.com/F4d9TGqDFi

— Page Six (@PageSix) August 5, 2019

^^ Deep cover

A Lohan pal also pointed out that before the gruesome killing of Washington Post journalist Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, last October, MbS — who took office in 2017 — had been touted as a modernizing force in Saudi Arabia who would push for women’s rights, among other things.

this lohan pal makes some interesting points

Her biopic is gonna be bananas.

A Lohan pal also pointed out that before the gruesome killing of Washington Post journalist Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, last October, MbS — who took office in 2017 — had been touted as a modernizing force in Saudi Arabia who would push for women’s rights, among other things.

reminds me of that old "....but you fuck one sheep" joke

https://pagesix.com/2019/09/20/lindsay-lohan-reveals-shes-single/

Now that I’m thinking about it, what are your guys’ must read “oh my god people wrote this?!” instructively cruel celeb profiles of the 2000s? I’d love to compile a list of TEACHABLE MOMENTS. To start: Lindsay Lohan as Rolling Stone IT GIRL 2004 https://t.co/Ftfs9eh9fC

— Jordan Crucchiola (@JorCru) February 7, 2021

she's not wrong

Thread now complete

yikes that article is fucking vile

yeah the opening paragraphs are truly disgusting

If you really want to take a deep dive into gross Y2K teachable moments, I recommend this NYT Spears doc on Hulu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXG28S8cAJU

shouts to jaymc for highlighting that opening when the thread first happened

“It was a horrible time for young women in popular culture,” Binelli said. Though he’s sure his Lohan story received zero pushback from his editors or his readers and “seemed funny and edgy to me at the time,” he no longer finds it so. “Reading the story today makes me cringe and I deeply regret writing it and any other ways in which I participated in the rampant misogyny of the media landscape at the time.”

“However much I’d told myself I was making some kind of meta-commentary on the sexist culture of the day,” he said. “I was very clearly also perpetuating it.”

There is shit I wrote back then which... well, not nearly as bad as that Lohan article but it was such a fucking GIVEN that if you were writing journalism and a woman appeared you were supposed to signal to the reader how hot they were supposed to find her, it's really messed up

Baby Sinclair: All Grown up and Feeling Nasty https://t.co/4lEPqrZzqq pic.twitter.com/Nu84cLgkt4

— The Hard Times (@REALpunknews) March 4, 2021