David Letterman gets called out for disrespectful interview with Lindsay Lohan

[tabloidpersona]

David Letterman slammed over resurfaced 2013 interview 'mocking' Lindsay Lohan for going to rehab https://t.co/V7wNrG8DCl
- Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) February 11, 2021
The Britney Spears documentary is having social media reflect on how the media treated embattled women in the public eye, and a glaring example is a 2013 interview with

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[surfermedley]

Lindsay is a racist herself so I really don’t care.

[maidenhell]

I know I'm going to get thumbs-down for this but I knew this would happen after the Britney doc. This will turn into opportunity for others-like Lindsay, like Paris-to get some kind of redemption as society forgets that they actually were assholes in the first place. I imagine the Kardashians will one day also get reimagined from the toxicity that they've contributed to the world.

[tabloidpersona]

except in the case of lohan and spears, they entered the industry as literal children so their behavior is a direct reflection of the hollywood culture that raised them. almost every embattled woman in the public eye has made questionable comments because the press constantly set them up for failure. and no im not defending hilton or the kardashians because i don't think my sentiments apply to them

[mangosmuggler]

Uhhhh Lindsay was born in 1986. So it baffles me she said ancient racist terms like “colored people” 🙄 Reminds me of another young racist I used to know who’d say “Orientals”

[thebopqueen]

i think sympathy can be given to lindsay as she was horribly exploited as a child star but yeah, anyone and everyone’s white female fave is about to be rewritten as a hero or victim 🙄

[lebanezrscrooge]

I think you're right that people are going to take the easy route of seeing this as an opportunity to redeem their ~problematic faves~ but at the same time, people should not have to be the perfect victims to have their treatment viewed as a part of an abusive pattern. If anything, the takeaway of the post should be along the lines of: look how this man got away with this because of our disdain for struggling people and reverence for white males.

[frejasface]

At the risk of being downvoted, a woman should not have to suffer sexist mistreatment from men even if she is a racist asshole.

[yesand]

YES! This specific situation is a man's mistreatment of a woman, and how that's not ok. That idea that that's not ok, can still live in the same world as "Lindsay, the person receiving said treatment, is aslo trash". Both thing can be true and be equally valid.

Also brushing it off as "She's a shitty person" fuels problematic people like David. Because let's be real she could have had an amazing personality and he still would have said this.

[dior_chic]

“ Because let's be real she could have had an amazing personality and he still would have said this.”

Exactly. It’s less about Lohan individually but more she’s representing women in general here.

[likeiused2]

This isn’t about that it’s about a grown man and supposed professional crossing the line.
Cuz we know, ok.

[adrock]

yeah not looking forward to the possibility of every "troubled" white woman getting a redemption arc (britney is separate from this, i'm talking more of the tendency to over-correct). i could see, like, courtney love and paris hilton being swept up in this and they are both legitimately awful. hated for wrong reasons, sure, but ugh.