Well...
First of all, it's sad when anyone dies, and especially for her children who have lost a mother. Illness is never nice, and dying young is never nice. I know. I see the indisputable figures about more women going for smear tests - one of the very few good things to come out of this sorry episode.
Now - this whole Jade Goody thing, to me, symbolises all that is wrong with Britain, and in particular, the way mass media works. Just like Jordan, she prostituted every second of her life, before she was ill, and while she was ill. I hear the argument about her providing for her kids, and I am very cynical about it. She was doing, in illness, what she did before illness - selling magazine pages.
I see on the news that there are some people leaving flowers by her gate this morning. Fine, if that's how they want to remember her. I am thinking about the hundreds and thousands of others who die, every day.
She was a nobody thrust into the limelight by her appearance on a programme that made voyeurs of half of the country. A racist bully. If that's what people want to idolise and leave flowers for - fine. It's a shocking state of affairs in my opinion, that people feel they have to do that, while Mrs Miggins at Number 42 is wheeled away quietly to be cremated.
Anyway - to summarise - sad that children have lost their mother, good that more women are being checked out, bad that it's something worthy of blanket news coverage.
(, Sun 22 Mar 2009, 12:23, Reply)
women slag other women off...
its just she got filmed to millions of people...
shilpa poppadom.. i mean come on! my asian friends say much worse.... gorah pakorah right here ffs!
she was just so dumb the media used her. she wasn´t intelligent enough to do all this on her own...
(, Sun 22 Mar 2009, 13:23, Reply)
Oh come on...
...used her? At what point was she being used? She was being paid.
I don't want to make jokes about this (at least not today), but this whole "the new peoples' princess" bullshit gets right up my nose.
Mind you, she was a not-too-bright blonde who was thrust into the public eye at a young age, put it about a bit, had a very public separation from the father of her two children and died young because she ignored basic common-sense safety advice. Maybe there is something in it after all.
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pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Sun 22 Mar 2009, 14:16,
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As I've said before
When Bobby Robson was diagnosed with cancer, he set about raising funds for research and treatment. Jade Goody could have done that, and thereby done some lasting good. Instead she hawked herself to the highest bidder to save her family from ever having to bother to actually work for a living like the rest of us.
Sorry, I forgot that anyone who dies of cancer is automatically above criticism.
(, Sun 22 Mar 2009, 15:49, Reply)