Amanda Bynes in trouble after offensive cancer post

Public Not Fooled by Bynes’ Apologies

After shaving her hair off recently, American celebrity actress and fashionista Amanda Bynes updated her Twitter: “Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient.”

Many of Bynes followers and Twitter visitors immediately took offense at the comment. Bynes apologized and then said that she was misunderstood because she forgot a piece of punctuation in the form of a colon between the words cancer and patient. She further explained that “cancer” was supposed to refer to people born under the Cancer sign in astrology who are more patient then those born under Aries, which is her sign.

This is not the first time the 27-year-old Bynes has offended others on the site or used a thin apology and explanation to cover her offensive remarks. In the past she has written offensive tweets about other celebrities including U.S. President Barack Obama.

After the cancer comment, Bynes followed with another offensive comment that she claimed was another punctuation error: “Not having your forgiveness makes me feel like I should have Aids…”

In a series of posts she writes, “Oh my God, let me just be the first to say: I can completely see how offense (sic) was taken. I truly apologize (sic) for the miscommunication… and all resulting discomfort or anger. I’m not a wretched person with zero sense of perspective or respect for fellow human beings; rather, the actual explanation of my statement is something far more banal… this was a very stupid grammatical error.

“What I intended to say was ‘not having hair makes me feel like a cancer: patient.’ That is, waiting for my hair to grow has made me a more patient person – a trait, in the astrological community, typically associated with those born under the Cancer sign. I’m actually an Aries (traditional traits: inexcusably poor grasp of punctuation.)”

In the next tweet, she stated that she was missing an “e” in the word Aids and that she meant “aides” who assist by writing tweets for stars.

“Not having your forgiveness makes me feel like I should have Aids… Christ, I’ve done it again. I meant: not having your forgiveness makes me feel like I should have aides, lower-case and with an ‘e’. Aides because I’m clearly in something of a public-relations quagmire. Please accept my second apology.”

On The Web:

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http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/17/amanda-bynes-explains-offensive-cancer-tweet

Amanda Bynes explains offensive online cancer post
http://www.starpulse.com/news/Dave_Simpson/2013/07/16/amanda_bynes_explains_offensive_online