Charlie Sheen, Christina Aguilera and celebrity

She's being called Christina Drunk-i-lera. Rumors were flowing after her failure attempting to sing the "National Anthem" at the Super Bowl and her slightly overweight appearance (which I am labeling "overweight" when compared to her body beforehand) but now there's evidence: she's a drunk, or so says the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. She was arrested for public intoxication (sources say because she was too drunk to be in public and no one was available to take care of her), while her current boy-toy was arrested for drunk driving. This news gave the hungry public a minor distraction from the It Boy of the Moment: Charlie Sheen.

Strippers, drugs, alcohol, rambling and ranting interviews on radio shows and TV to further feed his enormous ego. No one seems surprised -- especially if you look at his history filled with porn star girlfriends, prostitutes, domestic violence, rehab, cocaine addiction, and reps filled with excuses for his bad behavior.

What I don't get is why Sheen is being obsessed over and indirectly praised as if he's some hero, the ultimate guys guy who handles strippers like most men can only dream about and express in fake letters to Penthouse. It reminds me of college when guys slept around and it was natural and praised, complete with high fives and embellished re-tellings, but when girls slept around they were labeled sluts. A girl could not possibly have a libido and be looking for pleasure. Nonsense! That's a guy thing!

Just look at "Two and A Half Men" where Charlie Sheen's character is basically him except the cigarettes and cocaine are replaced with cigars and alcohol and the girls are not full-on prostitutes. Millions of Americans laugh week in and week out (well not anymore) at his hijinks. However it's more than just men vs. women with the Sheen obsession.

Sheen is being praised because he still has lots of money, a famous family to fall back on and is doing what he wants. He's not Gary Busey (yet) or some other D-lister ready for a stint on "Celebrity Rehab." We (aka Joe Public) only see the fun side of those benders. It's like the movie "Basketball Diaries" with a young Leonardo DiCaprio. Doing drugs and drinking seems fun when he's sleeping with a beautiful girl his age and having the time of his life but not so much when he's on the street and addicted to heroin, willing to do anything to get more drugs.

Celebrities are like spoiled children who are given no consequences for their actions growing up. Drunk driving? Cocaine? Strippers? Prostitutes? All you need is a stint in rehab (aka vacation), get yourself together enough that the public buys that you are OK and go back to making millions of dollars and living a fabulous life. How lovely.