Girls gone wild

I feel like ranting about Lindsay Lohan. Her arrest this morning has gotten me thinking about her many exploits and the exploits of those like her: Britney, Paris, Nicole, um...Courtney Love, I guess, and the late Anna Nicole Smith. And the one thing that all of these people have in common that really really bothers me isn't that they're dumb or selfish or spoiled or drug-addled. It's that they're girls. I can't think of a single guy who even comes close to being as much of a public fuck-up as these girls. What's the deal? They're out there giving the rest of us a bad name. I'm not saying that without these few people men wouldn't think women are crazy. Men and women aren't the same. Men think women are crazy. Women think men are insensitive. That's just the way it goes. But these girls are out there making it seem like all women have the potential to be CRAZY-crazy. Not "fighting to protect my family" crazy or "fighting social injustice" crazy. Not even legitimate mental illness crazy. Nope, more like "crazy just for the sake of being crazy" crazy.

The only solution I can think of, short of beating these people senseless, is creating a new gender to categorize them, so the rest of us can get on with being normal women without having to worry about what new types of false impressions are being cast on us simply for being the same gender as a few lunatics. I was going to go on about all the awesome, kickass, not entirely crazy women on TV these days that are way better role models than this group of real people, but I'll refrain.