Probably right to ease off of Britney and Lindsay, but your impluse to go after Angelina is sound. I agree with you that though Angelina could readily be characterized as monster-superior, the press has wanted to imagine her more as MOTHER-superior. The reason for this, I think, is that the many of us who were born of mothers who used us as little playthings to ward off depression, and who interpreted our emerging desire to attend to our own needs rather than their own, as treachery, see in Angelina some version of the mother who must be praised and placated -- or else! Did you know that there are cultures which encourage their kids to play with knives. Not for their own good -- Angelina's purported motivation -- but because kids aren't valued all that much once they focus on their own independence. Take New Guinea parenting, for instance: "There are many ways New Guinea parents demonstrate that when the child cannot be used erotically, it is useless. One is that a...