John 8:7
I've always admired Courtney Love, and while i think her drug habit is shitty, but you know, i don't have anything against her at all.
I've always loved Courtney and when i was a teenager, i really admired her because she could always say "fuck you" to anyone and I loved that strength in her. I loved how she could be cool and face up to the world and didn't have to pretend that she had her act together. She never hid, never denied who she was, even if she was not what society accepted in a girl. That was and still is how i feel about Courtney Love.
When i said that to a friend once, a few years back, he said to me that to the contrary, Courtney Love sucks up to society alot. And as i reflected, i thought that he might be right, that courtney do the things she do to get the attention and approval she craves from society.
But these days the more i read about news of Courtney Love, which really just a repetition of drug busts and probation she violated, the more i think that the whole deal with Courtney doing the things she do to try to win the approval of society is plain bullshit. Because Courtney Love will NEVER win their approval. Because society loves Courtney Love because she is a fuck up.
The only approval Courtney will ever win from society is for being a fuck up. So then, if if Courtney is trying to win the approval of society, then i say that all her fucked up public persona is not to be blamed on Courtney, but on society.
What i feel is that she is a victim. Not just of drugs, but she is a victim of society.
When she's on drugs, people will say that "ouh look at her, drug addict."
When she FINALLY comes clean and she gets fat because of it, people say "Look how fat Courtney is"
When she gets back on drugs again, people say, "Saw this coming, what's new?"
Give her a break man.
Courtney Love is a scapegoat.
Courtney Love is not the only celebrity with a drug problem. Courtney Love is not the only HUMAN BEING with a drug problem. Courtney Love is NOT the only fucked up person in this whole world man! I just think it's incredibly WRONG that she's being crucified for her deeds and her manner and her behavior over and over and over and over again all these years by the courts, the media and by society.
It's just that she's the most predominant celebrity that has ALWAYS publicised or BEEN publicied with a drug problem that people just love her for being so fucked up. And I think that's very wrong, because the truth is that we have our own Courtney shit in us.
Stop crucifing her for goodness sake and look within yourself and see your own shit within.
Don't point your fingers at her and say she's the guilty one when we're all as guilty as her.
Don't look at her and read about how fucked up she is to give yourself that condesending self righteous comfort thinking how much better and holier you are than Courtney Love
because deep down inside, we all have our own demons to hide.
The difference is that at least Courtney Love still had the strength and courange to fight her demons in the scrutinizing public eye, go through all that persecution, fuck up, rise and fuck up again and still fight on, or at least try and die trying..... While we continue to hide and indulge and take pleasure and twisted guilt in our skeletons in our own private little closet.
That is why, I still think that Courtney Love is one of the most open and "honest" celebrities out there because she doesn't pretend to have it all, doesn't pretend to be your all american girl, doesn't pretend to be perfect, doesn't pretend like she can do it either if she can't.
She is fucked up, and i do hope she'll get better, but i'll always give Courtney the credit for having the strength to face all these shit in the flashing of camera lights, even if she seems to revel it in it sometimes.
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