I believe there’s a woman on primetime TV right now who has brushed her teeth with poo.
Yes. A stranger she married scrubbed a toilet-bowl with her toothbrush and didn’t tell her about it. Now, who else knew about it and for how long and how many germ-borne diseases she may have contracted and whether or not she has sh*t-breath is fodder for public humiliation on a show watched by 1.3 million people every night.
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Meanwhile, on the Daily Mail, a very famous Australian woman who has built a fitness empire worth $50m has been being publicly stoned for weeks. She failed a breathaliser with her child in the car. Almost as soon as she’d stopped blowing into the machine on a Sydney street, it was “revealed” that she is going through a painful split with her husband, the father of her child.
Last week, the world was wringing its hands over the devastating death by suicide of a well-loved, smart and talented TV presenter at the top of her game.
Every day, the gloriously shiny platform of Instagram is crammed with high-profile women being told they are too thin, too fat, too young, too old. Irresponsible. Uptight. A bad mother, a selfish bitch, a money-grabbing such-and-such.
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Just because Millennials think something is a good idea, doesn't actually mean that it is. I actually can't think of a worse "job" than being famous for nothing. If the sole reason you're famous is because of who you are (rather than some kind of meaningful contribution to society or being in possession of a special skill or talent), then you are pretty much just commodifying yourself as a product. And as such, that product, like any other commercialised, marketed product, comes under scrutiny and criticism - go figure. The expectation that people just lavish others with praise (and money) on the internet, and not say anything negative, is just unrealistic and narcissistic.
Ok... now how many articles have we had this week, or this month about MAFS? How many do we get about the Bachelor/ette? How many jokes did you guys make about the way that one guy brushes his teeth? How many of the contestants have you labelled "stage five clingers"? A bit hypocritical of you to be jumping on your high horse and judging the Daily Mail, when I've often seen the exact same stories here as I have over there. And after all this preaching, will we see a change here?
well this site advertises itself as what women are talking about,so women must be talking about this show
MM has a hub page dedicated to MAFS so I don't have much hope of seeing any change.
Exactly, it's like 50% of their content, kind of hard to pretend that they aren't contributing to these problems every bit as much as the Daily Mail or the tabloid mags.
uh oh - the Beacons have been lit. Rush calls for aid