Granted this week’s blog title might not be the zippiest
that I’ve ever come up with, and it’s certainly not going to win any awards,
but quite frankly I’m feeling in a little bit of a daze! This week has to have
been one of the most bizarre weeks that I’ve experienced in a very long time,
and I’m not even talking personal experiences here. There was the storm on
twitter on beauty – I’ll get to that in a second, and then there the man in the
Thames ruining the Boat race!!
Okay, so firstly this week’s bizarreness began with Samantha
Brick! Now I have to preface my next run of thoughts on this, by saying that that
I’m not entirely sure if I’ve missed the intention behind this headline story.
Was her initial article a spoof, and if so did the editors at the Daily Mail forget
to run it on 1st April?? Also, did they forget that spoofs are
supposed to be in some way amusing?? Brick’s article was more bemusing than
amusing!
Also, the thing I’ve struggled with since the story was
published and the uproar began, was the fact that I’m not sure if I care. Yet I
can’t decide if this just makes me simply apathetic, or I’m just very cynical! You
just know that she’s coining in it in and she’ll have got a book deal out of
this, which is a travesty in both senses. Not that she’ll care because she’ll
be minted, and as they say all publicity is good publicity. Added to the fact
that all her publicity right now is also coming to her free!!
However, now that I’ve forced myself to come down from my
cynical / apathetic post, I would just like to point out though that I had a
few issues with the whole Brick article and Brick rebuttal. None of my issues
though are to do with whether she’s beautiful (which I just don’t care about as
it’s totally subjective), or whether women hate her for this (which I can only
think is a sweeping generalisation as I doubt she’s done polls on this).
One of my issues was that I didn’t like the fact that as a
woman, I was given a collective voice. I’m not against this at times when it
comes to women’s issues for example, but in an article that lacks any credence
or gravitas I mostly found it irritating. I can’t agree with my mates on what
take away to order, or which film to watch at the cinema. The notion therefore that
we’d see one woman and have the exact same opinion defies belief. Although I
think it’s likely that we might’ve all inferred that she seems to come across as
conceited and Narcissus – esque! (Yes that’s not a word – but Narcissus was the
beautiful boy who drowned in his own reflection!) Yet I feel I may have reached
this conclusion without ever seeing her photo, and just reading her article.
Yet my major problem with the articles was the simple fact
that they were very poorly written. Aside from the fact that she can spell –although
we shouldn’t rule out some editor involvement here, I had issues with both the
perspective that she took and the credibility of the article. On This Morning she claimed that the piece
that she’d started out writing / had intended to write was on the sisterhood
and how we don’t band together, and then she also threw in how women don’t like
her around their husbands and boyfriends.
Now – this is where I find it gets quite interesting! As I
think that a writer with an ounce of skill could put together a great article
on this. I think most women will accept that we do on occasion moan and b*tch
about other women, but do we really impinge each other’s careers and does that
mean we hate beautiful women? Well I’m sure that people who’ve done research
and studies on this are well placed to tell us, yet I don’t get the feeling
that Samantha Bick is one of these people. Also an ode to oneself generally
isn’t going to be that reflective of a societal issue I find!
Anyway, onto bizarre story number 2! I love the boat race
and watch it year in year out. This year though, like for the thousands and
thousands of other spectators, boat race day was ruined. The race started and
then had to be stopped due to a man being in the river! Then when it did start again
there seemed to be a little bit of confusion, and then it all went horribly
wrong; broken oar, easy Cambridge victory, and one of the Oxford oarsmen
collapsing.
It is such a shame that the race ended this way especially
as it looked set to be a nail biter, and my sympathies go out to both teams who
would’ve worked for months upon months to prepare for one day and one race that
was ruined by one foolish man!
It is reported that the man in the river was protesting
against elitism, but quite frankly there has to have been a better way for him to
have got his point across. He could have got hurt, he could have injured
others, and he’s ruined what is a traditionally exciting day of sport on the
British calendar. Quite frankly – shame on him!
Yet between him and Brick, what a random week it has been!
Although the only highlight of the week has to be that we’ve all now got a
catchy song for when we’ve lost our keys, or lost our phone!
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