I’m in no hurry to see Freakier Friday. I just watched the original one the other day for the first time in 20 years. Over the years, the actress/singer took a lot of shit for what people said and did.
I’d argue the whole thing with Georgia Rule and her partying was just a PR stunt by the production company to drum up interest in a movie that really no one wanted to see. And the proof of that was how awful the movie performed at the box office and how much the critics detested it.
But let’s face it, her parents weren’t always the best people to look up to. Her father, Michael Lohan, was in prison before she was in preschool. He spent years committing white-collar crimes and her mother, Dina, obviously saw dollar signs and her own fame when the actress started to hit it big.
It also didn’t help matters that she was constantly criticized and mocked in the media for actions that paled in comparison to the behaviors of Robert Downey Jr. and Charlie Sheen among many others. It’s the same way they went after Paris Hilton for a drunk driving conviction and that psychopathic Boss Hogg Crazy Joe Arpaio said he wanted to put her in his concentration camp, I mean jail. Yet, he let Glen Campbell have a nice time for the same conviction.
As usual, whenever a woman suffers substance abuse, we look for her to fail. Even worse, when she’s an actress or a celebrity, we pray for their early death. I mean look at people throwing dildos on the courts of the WNBA then mocking how the players are secretly men. Yes, women can be tall. Yes, women like to play sports. It’s obviously because people don’t want to see women in sports.
Even, so many women support this behavior and participate in it. There’s a saying that goes, “A woman’s first bully is usually her mother.” That’s the crazy society we live in. Let’s not forget that Lohan was in her late teens and early 20s when a lot of these stories made the round in the news. That happens to many other women all around America in college and it never makes the news. I can name five young woman I went to college with who did about the same Lohan did. Then, they got clean and sober and moved on with their lives.
I remember back in October 2007 when Mike Gundy, head football coach for the Oklahoma State Cowboys got mad at a woman reporter for reporting how childish the 21-year-old football player acts. Want to guess the gender of the football player acts? Yes, the player is a man who was openly defended. If you’re a 21-year-old man, you’re just a kid. But if you’re a 21-year-old woman, it’s different. Even a paparazzi chased Lohan down the road and hit her car, causing injuries.
What Lohan did was take a step away from Hollywood and focus on herself. And that’s when people starting shutting up about her which was good. The output of her movies weren’t the best but surviving is the best revenge. Now, she’s 39 and appearing on the big screen again. She’s even doing commercials for Verizon. She’s married and now a mother.
I used to hear shit on the radio from obnoxious deejays who I guessed looked like Dan Aykroyd in Nothing but Trouble. Here’s a good photo if you need a reference:
I would say things have changed in the last 10 years later in the aftermath of the MeToo Movement as well as how Dan Schneider and others involved in the production of Disney and Nickelodeon TV shows and movies were basically creepy perverted scumbags. People like Lohan, Hilton and especially Britney Spears are viewed in a different light than the way they were 15 or 20 years ago, which begs the question why do we treat young women like this.
Even Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock said they were told to be enemies in the 1990s when they both hit it big. Granted, Tate Donovan did dump Bullock for Aniston but those expecting Aniston and Bullock to do a Jerry Springer fight were let down. They realized it was Donovan not each other who were the problem. Instead they’ve become close friends.
I think it’s all about control. While I’m no fan of her, Bhad Bhabie, aka Danielle Bregoli, made a name for herself when she appeared on Dr. Phil and said, “Catch me outside! How ’bout that?” By 2016, that show had become a joke much like its eponymous host especially following the way he treated the late Shelly Duvall during an interview. But since then, we’ve seen Phil McGraw show his true colors.
I’m glad that Lohan got clean and sober and we need to treat substance abuse more seriously than tearing people down. If RDJ can earn an Oscar and make big bucks for his movies than so should Lohan.
What do you think? Please comment.
Zane Says 