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In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Madonna talks about being heckled as a youngster and redefines the word "torture."

In an attempt to peddle her latest album, Hard Candy, Madonna talks about the plight of Britney Spears. You know, the girl who offers herself up to ridicule on a silver platter by flashing her hoo haa all around town.

"When you think about the way people treat each other in Africa, about witchcraft and people inflicting cruelty and pain on each other, then come back here and, you know, people taking pictures of people when they’re in their homes, being taken to hospitals, or suffering, and selling them, getting energy from them, that’s a terrible infliction of cruelty. So who’s worse off?" she asked.

Ummm… I'm gonna go with the people of Africa, Madge.

Madonna then told Vanity Fair about her "tortured" youth.

“I wasn’t a hippie or a stoner, so I ended up being the weirdo. I was interested in classical ballet and music, and the kids were quite mean if you were different. I was one of those people that people were mean to."

Rather than feeling sorry for herself, she said she "decided to emphasize my differences. I didn’t shave my legs. I had hair growing under my arms. I refused to wear makeup, or fit the ideal of what a conventionally pretty girl would look like. So of course I was tortured even more."

Perhaps she should look up the word “torture.” Generally, I think of the rack or flagellation… not school kids laughing at Madonna’s unshaven pits.

Hopefully Vanity Fair reporters had a Whaaambulance standing by.

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