{"id":402,"date":"2008-11-09T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=402"},"modified":"2008-11-09T08:30:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T12:30:58","slug":"rebeccas-defense-of-duff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca’s Defense of Duff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago, by some conversational equation I cannot recollect, I was talking to my husband about Hillary Duff. Overall, I\u2019m pretty neutral in regards to yet another one of Disney\u2019s former pop princesses. Her music is essentially what you expect it to be, pop spun of the finest sugars that the children from the \u201cIt\u2019s a Small World\u201d ride could gather. In fairness, I always had a soft spot for her song \u201cDo You Want Me\u201d. I suspect it’s because even with me coming into middle age I still clearly recall what it feels like to be a 13 year-old girl who knows, that everything is so painfully important, and nothing more so than the affections of a boy.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I was commenting to Jim that unlike some other former Disney girls, Duff seemed to be acclimating to life outside of the mobs of tween fans pretty well. I\u2019m not well versed in her life and career or anything, it\u2019s just I read a lot of celebrity gossip websites, a lot of them, and Duff rarely seems to make the scene, and when she does it always refreshingly dull, like her buying a Starbucks latte in the afternoon. So I figure she hasn\u2019t degenerated into a party girl, or pAArty girl, as Perez Hilton<\/a> would say.<\/p>\n

Then she got a little press for her work with the organization ThinkB4YouSpeak.com <\/a>whose goal is \u201cto raise awareness about the prevalence and consequences of anti-LGBT bias and behavior in America\u2019s schools.\u201d Duff even did this amusing ad for them.<\/p>\n