25Nov/098
Disturbing sentence of the week
is this, from the Mail's latest story about Suri Cruise's shoes:
'She's looking a little grown-up for a three-year-old' - try saying that without vomiting blood.
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November 25th, 2009 - 13:24
Disturbing sentence of the week – trying saying without hearing a Harry Hill style jingle.
November 25th, 2009 - 13:37
This couldn't be the same Daily Mail that I'm sure I remember running a full-page PAEDOPHILE DANGER!!!!!! piece opposite a picture of a still-very-much-underage Charlotte Church bursting out of her top with a caption along the lines of "What a big girl our Char's become!", could it? Surely not.
November 25th, 2009 - 13:42
http://www.heelarious.com/kate.php These are been worn by babies in my town – and it isn't an "ironic" or "comic" statement – not unless the leopard print leggings on the 6 month old baby were also "ironic" – I stay indoors a lot nowadays and the nearest I get to national newspapers is your blog…
November 25th, 2009 - 14:32
I failed. Could you do something about the blood on my keyboard please?
November 25th, 2009 - 14:45
It is quite disturbing. Not just the sentence but the all encompassing fascination they have with the girl.
So what if she's wearing bloody heels, all toddler girls try out their mother's shoes for a while. And often mother's get annoyed with little girls "nicking" their shoes, so they buy mini-heels for them so they can be like mummy.
It does not mean they grow up any faster or turn out to be whores.
After the toddler phase and my own flamenco shoe phase, i turned into a tomboy, rejecting any girly things…people change, including toddlers.
November 25th, 2009 - 15:05
Peter, I think you mean the Daily Star: http://enemiesofreason.blogspot.com/2008/04/this-may-never-be-beaten.html
November 25th, 2009 - 15:38
god, that's just awful. why are they so obsessed with suri cruise? she's three year's old. let her live her life and enjoy being a toddler. the mail constantly criticise how "children aren't allowed to be children anymore" because of the national curriculum – yet they refuse to let celebrity children get on with their childhoods. ugh ugh ugh
November 25th, 2009 - 22:57
I failed, and brought a lot of bile up as well.
Kids like dressing up. It's what kids do (unless they happen to be my Autistic son who is terrified of masks and costumes, yep we have fun at Hallowe'en I tell ya). They like to imitate their parents, disney princesses, cartoon characters etc and shops cater to that. My youngest daughter goes out dressed as a cat every chance she can get. Other days she goes out as a princess and that includes matching dressing up tiny heeled shoes.
If i were Katie Holmes, I'd deck the next pap, erase the pics and be damned with the consequences. But that's just me.
I thought there were laws about photgraphing children; Kate Moss's daughter is never photographed and neither were the Princes William and Harry.