Jade Goody, the nation’s pet chav, has been kicked out of the Big Brother house with 82% of the public vote. Right now, the nation seems to have found itself a new Myra Hindley; our new hate figure in chief.I’m not a fan of Jade Goody. She is common, she hardly pauses from breath in her loud wittering, she’s argumentative and she bullies. Her mother was in the house this year too and her mother is worse, which explains much. The redeeming feature that I believe she has though is that she is willing to look at how her behaviour affects others and is wiling to confront her weaknesses. I’d prefer somebody who acts badly but is strong enough to look at the truth in preference to somebody who just happens to mostly do the right thing because they were lucky enough to be brought up by a decent family.
To me, the racism argument is really missing the point. Jade was the alpha female of the group. She was really upfront about how she didn’t like Shilpa (I’m not sure I can condemn her for that; Shilpa would be difficult to get on with). Sadly, two other rather dim women followed her and suddenly there was a group bullying Shilpa. So the weak-minded follow the alpha female. No news so far.
It shows an immaturity in our society that faced with bullying where the bullies pick on a foreign accent, the nation goes into paroxysm of self-doubt about whether we’re all latent racists rather than whether we’re all latent bullies. As I said in a previous post, a group of bullies will pick on anything about their victim that they can. Racism is not to be tolerated in society, but neither is bullying. I noticed just now that the two remaining girls who were bullying Shilpa with Jade have now moved into the double bed together. I really don’t understand the psychology of groups of young and dumb women. It all seems so extreme; they always seem to be either constantly bonding in an exaggerated and rather insincere way or ripping other people to shreds.
I think it’s unfair to demonise Jade. In my opinion, the nastier bully was the pointless scouser former Miss
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"She dealt with the post-eviction interview with considerable self-reflection, remorse and fortitude. I feel sorry for her but I wouldn’t want to meet her."
Did you really buy that? She cried for the paper, cried for the first tv interview, cried for the second tv interview. Perhaps they were more associated with a multimillion pound fortune ebbing away. The whole thing had had the grubby paws of a PR all over it. As for fortitude - the word has way too many syllables for her to pronounce.
Yes, I think I did buy it. If that makes me naive, I'm quite pleased about that as I fear that I'm generally rather cynical!
She deserves a good hiding for some of the things she said, but this is becoming a witch hunt, diverting attention from the fact that she's not the only one to say dumb things; both inside the house and out.
She deserves a good hiding because she represents all that is bad about the cult of celebrity. Being dumb, saying dumb and acting dumb cannot be an excuse. However, she's not so dumb as she would like the world to think given that she thinks (and succeeds) in making people feel sorry for her.
Oh, I'm loving the passion of Anonymous's thoughts! It's such fun to have somebody argue a point with passion. I wish I knew who Anonymous was. My suspicions have narrowed it down to about 20 people, which isn't exactly conclusive. Assuming I know them even.
I am the Blog Avenger bringing sense and order where ever there is silliness on the Internet. No blog is safe from my pearls (or should that be perils) of wisdom. Tremble at my insights. Quake at my barbed comments. Know that no corner of the blogosphere is safe from my sage-like comment.
How fascinating! Are you also cute, gay and desperate? If you answer "yes" to two of those three questions, that's generally enough to be of considerable interest. Well, assuming you're a man.
If you are kept busy wherever there is silliness ont'internet you must be very busy indeed. I must do some work. I've spent the whole morning so far dealing with the latest pain generation from my emtional retard of a father. Not good.
I too believed Jade's remorse following her eviction from the BB house and after seeing Dermot (the dish) O'Leary interview her yesterday. We all know she isn't the sharpest tool in the box (if in fact she is even in the box) but two wrongs do not make a right and subjecting Jade to this ridicule day after day is just not on. Yes I know bullies do this to their victims probably on a daily basis, but then is that what we have all now become? The bullies! I do not wish to be placed in that category thank you! Her comments about Shila were absolutely unacceptable and she has apologised profusely to all concerned and I think is now aware that behaviour of that nature is just not acceptable, despite it being the way she was brought up but I think the culprit here is C4 in their manipulation of the whole debacle. Instead of nipping it in the bud, they chose to show edited highlights to up the ratings - Jade is rarely the exploiter, but often exploited!
Oops before anyone points it out, I spelt Shilpa's name incorrectly in my rant! The damn 'p' on my keyboard keeps sticking! Apologies.
I am sooo glad I don't watch television.
Of course Jade acts as the exploiter, isnt that how she became famous in the first place?? Or was it the clever agent of hers that said to her we can make you famous and rich if you're willing to air your dirty washing to the world.
Please someone tell me that Jade isnt really the 25th most influential person on the planet! That really is a disturbing thought for me.
Barista I agree no more television for me. I will go back to my books!
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