Stop Picking On Lindsay Lohan

[BunsenH]

She deserves to be where she is. No one forced her to drink and get behind the wheel. I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who drinks and drives. She ( or one of her handlers ) should have enough sense to hire her a driver.

It's been reported that due to overcrowding she will only serve around 20 days in jail. I would prefer they keep her in for the full sentence and let a 'nobody' go instead who has served the same time for the same crime.

"Give us Barabbas!!" yelled the angry mob to Pilate.

 

[DawnCt1]

"Give us Barabbas!!" yelled the angry mob to Pilate.

 

[declansdad]

Sympathy for the likes of Paris Hilton and Lohan. Why? Is there something special about these privileged white women?

There is nothing special about any privileged woman (of any colour). Not when it comes to violating the law.

 

[southernbohemian]

I don't feel bad for Lindsey, but I do feel bad about the rejoicing that happens every time she screws up. To me, she seems like an OD waiting to happen, and that is just sad. It is sad when a person with plenty of chances and money to get help refuses to do so. I don't care for her as an actress (the only decent thing she did was Mean Girls and that was more a gift from Tina Fey than anything else), and she seems like a fairly repugnant human being, but the fact that I would not be surprised if I woke up to headlines that she had overdosed or got killed in a drunk driving incident is just sad.

I do not understand the idea of reducing a sentence that originated from a drunk driving incident because it is "non-violent." Drunk driving is the same as a person loading a gun, walking into a crowded room and randomly shooting - you might not kill someone, but you are making the choice to operate a lethal weapon that you cannot properly control. I think jail time should be mandatory for all DUI cases - it is way too often that the rich, like Lohan, get off repeatedly with a slap on the wrist while people who can't afford good lawyers have to do the time.

The "overcrowding" issue is also a joke - doesn't she have a private cell? Put a roommate in there - problem solved.

 

[Tiger926]

I teach at-risk teens, and even jail doesn't seem to work. Many of them have undiagnosed or diagnosed (won't take meds) mental, learning or behaviour issues, so jail does nothing. It is just a place to crash for a few weeks or months, and it's usually much better than the nasty places they live in. We try to get to the root of why they are there and teach them positive coping strategies for their problems.

Most of my students are also addicts of some kind or another, as are their parents and other family members. So, without a good support system, or, the ability to actually get help, they don't do well.

Ms. Lohan, like so many other celebrities probably has emotional and other issues that will continue to follow her, until she herself is actually ready to get help. Jail, will probably just be an a funny embarassment that she'll tweet about, and she'll come back out, just as she did her last jail term (although it only last 1.5 hours in length), and resort to the same behaviour.

She has personal demons that she cannot overcome, and has surrounded herself intentionally, and unintentionally with people who support her toxic lifestyle. I fear that a tragic episode like a near death experience may be the only thing that persuades her that she needs help.

Being embarassed, losing movie roles, potentially murdering someone with her car, going to jail, and looking like a fool, has not worked thus far in convincing her that she needs help, so at this point, in my vast experience with this type of personality, it is going to take something major to do it...near death or perhaps or death itself...

Tiger

 

[JerseyJanice]

I don't feel a lot of sympathy for Ms. Lohan. She is a young adult with the means to improve her situation. Looking at recent photographs of her, I don't think she was overindulging the way the writer of the article did. Frankly, she looks like she is a hardcore abuser of illegal substances; her face shows significant signs of aging even though she is only 24.

While we're on the topic, did anyone else see this? It was posted on TMZ. It's a list of items prisoners can purchase at the facility where she's jailed:

http://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28/newsdesk/tmz_documents/0721_lynwood.pdf

Some of those items have me cracking up. I think one can make do without hot pork cracklins and jalapeno cheese squeezers while they're incarcerated. And boy, that sure is a high mark-up on Ramen noodles!

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

The article isn't talking about making excuses or even saying that she shouldn't go to jail. What it's saying is that we should not use another person's failures for our entertainment, and I think they have a point. What if that was your daughter, sister, friend? What if that was you? I think what would help her the most if everybody just leaving her alone. Let her drop off the radar for awhile. Being stalked by paparrazzi and having your failures splashed on every paper and magazine for the world to see is not going to help matters.

I've never understood why we seem to delight in the failures of others. Would you want your every mistake out there for everybody to judge? I wouldn't.

 

[DawnCt1]

The article isn't talking about making excuses or even saying that she shouldn't go to jail. What it's saying is that we should not use another person's failures for our entertainment, and I think they have a point. What if that was your daughter, sister, friend? What if that was you? I think what would help her the most if everybody just leaving her alone. Let her drop off the radar for awhile. Being stalked by paparrazzi and having your failures splashed on every paper and magazine for the world to see is not going to help matters.

I've never understood why we seem to delight in the failures of others. Would you want your every mistake out there for everybody to judge? I wouldn't.

That's how I read it.

 

[mumom95]

The article isn't talking about making excuses or even saying that she shouldn't go to jail. What it's saying is that we should not use another person's failures for our entertainment, and I think they have a point. What if that was your daughter, sister, friend? What if that was you? I think what would help her the most if everybody just leaving her alone. Let her drop off the radar for awhile. Being stalked by paparrazzi and having your failures splashed on every paper and magazine for the world to see is not going to help matters.

I've never understood why we seem to delight in the failures of others. Would you want your every mistake out there for everybody to judge? I wouldn't.

I don't think people are using her failure for their entertainment. She has made a lot of money throughout the years by encouraging people to be interested in her. She wants them to watch her movies. She wants them to look at her on the red carpet. She wants them to read the interviews she has given to the different magazines. So people got interested in her. The interest doesn't just go away when something goes wrong. I doubt many people are hoping bad things happen to her. But to ask people not to be curious, about someone who has built her entire life around being in the spotlight, is a little much.

As for people delighting in the failures of others. Have you never cheered for a team before and hoped they would win. Well, for your team to win another team has to lose. So in a way, you are delighting in the failure of the other team. Most people don't want the opposing team to be successful.

 

[lustergirl]

Yes, but the Dis rules prevent us from talking about everything else going on in the country.

Still stuck on that same ol same ol' huh Dawn? I am sure that you have found another board somewhere to do your bashing on???

 

[MM27]

The article isn't talking about making excuses or even saying that she shouldn't go to jail. What it's saying is that we should not use another person's failures for our entertainment, and I think they have a point. What if that was your daughter, sister, friend? What if that was you? I think what would help her the most if everybody just leaving her alone. Let her drop off the radar for awhile. Being stalked by paparrazzi and having your failures splashed on every paper and magazine for the world to see is not going to help matters.

I've never understood why we seem to delight in the failures of others. Would you want your every mistake out there for everybody to judge? I wouldn't.

I wouldn't either. However, when you have a career in the public spotlight, you have to expect to be watched. It goes with the territory, right or not.

 

[ols386]

Still stuck on that same ol same ol' huh Dawn? I am sure that you have found another board somewhere to do your bashing on???

Wow, talk about a personal attack.

 

[FergieTCat]

Ms. Lohan blew off a court date because she was partying in Cannes. That garners my sympathy how?

I blame her mother for her behavior more than I blame her. Nice work there, Dina.

 

[punkin]

Still stuck on that same ol same ol' huh Dawn? I am sure that you have found another board somewhere to do your bashing on???

Wow, talk about a personal attack.

Yeah. Where did that come from?

 

[declansdad]

Yeah. Where did that come from?

Don't know but I wouldn't call it an attack.

 

[southernbohemian]

I wouldn't either. However, when you have a career in the public spotlight, you have to expect to be watched. It goes with the territory, right or not.

I agree - and what it boils down to is a lack of decorum by these "celebrities." When you are in the public eye, the crap moments of your life could easily become cover stories - that's just the way it is. You can either handle it with class, or decide to air your business out in front of the entire world. Look at the examples of Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock, Halle Berry - all beautiful, immensely popular actresses whose cheating husbands landed them on the cover of every supermarket rag out there. Were there tears and angry shouting matches at their homes - definitely yes. But we didn't see it because they didn't go screaming at their exes at 3 o'clock in the morning with the paps following them. Do most 20-something actresses go out partying with their friends and occassionally get too tipsy? Yes - but you know going in that if there are paparazzi swarming the place when you arrive, they'll probably be there when you stumble out - so behave yourself accordingly. A lot of it boils down to having class and talent - those with either don't feel the need to become known as "party girls" so they don't put their business out for the world to see.

 

[joviroxx]

Admittedly, I haven't read all the posts but I don't feel sorry for her at all. She broke the law, she pays the price. Jail and prison are full of people with hard lives and bad parents, should we let them go too?

As far as the celebrity thing goes, well, sadly, it goes with the property. Celebrities seem to also get a lot of "perks" we "regular" people do not. It has its good and bad aspects. I understand the complaints about the lack of privacy, but since I don't hear a lot of complaining about the free merchandise, such as clothes, electronics, etc and great access to events and all other kinds of advantages (I mean how many of us could be flying private jets while owing $36,000 ), I don't put much stock in the complaints about the down side while luckily enjoying the benefits.

She needs to do her time and then get herself into rehab. The world is full of people with bad childhoods, lots much worse than hers, that aren't thumbing their noses at judges and the court system. I hope she gets herself some help and learns a lesson. She's a big girl now, time for big girl panties!

 

[Elmo9607]

I don't feel sorry for her. Same as other people have posted...she is a public figure. Public figures live their lives in the public eye. It is something that goes with the territory of being a celebrity, and the amount of attention these people receive is not negotiable.

I think Lindsay Lohan is such a train wreck because she doesn't understand boundaries, she thinks she is above the law, and she obviously doesn't think anyone who can get her in trouble is watching her.

We love a good dirty, juicy, gossipy story. Whether it is someone in politics (Bill Clinton, John Edwards), sports (Tonya Harding, Mark McGuire), or movies/Hollywood (Paris Hilton, Mel Gibson), it doesn't matter. All their private lives suddenly become public and we want every detail we can get. It sells newspapers, it sells magazines, and it gives people something to talk about around the water cooler. But I think what's more than the gossip aspect of it is the fact that we, as a country, seem to love to see people, especially those who are more "priveledged" than us, fail. Nothing seems to please us more than seeing someone high and mighty fall off their pedestal.

Is it wrong? I don't necessarily believe so. It's just the way we are. Most of the celebrities out there understand this, and therefore handle their sticky situations with class and tact. Those who don't are always asking for what's coming to them.

 

[angie@dvcstore]

I hope she gets help soon because its sad to see the way her life is going. She has so much talent and it would be sad to see it go to waste she just needs good people in her life to motivate her IMO

 

[legalsea]

I don't think people are using her failure for their entertainment. She has made a lot of money throughout the years by encouraging people to be interested in her. She wants them to watch her movies. She wants them to look at her on the red carpet. She wants them to read the interviews she has given to the different magazines. So people got interested in her. The interest doesn't just go away when something goes wrong. I doubt many people are hoping bad things happen to her. But to ask people not to be curious, about someone who has built her entire life around being in the spotlight, is a little much.

Agreed. Right now a lot of people follow the career of Justin Beiber and those actors from Twilight. If THEY all suddenly went to jail, it would be big news and much discussed.