Saturday, February 14, 2004
No Good Adv-Ice Cream
This is a picture of Girls Aloud. Now, as you look at it many thoughts are likely to be passing through your head, for example, the first one that entered our brain-space was "Wow! Nicola is actually in the centre of a picture for once". However, of all the ideas and impressions that flit through your mind as you look at the photo, it's very unlikely that you're thinking "What a bunch of porkers, those girls certainly need to lose weight from their lardy frames". Not, that is, unless you're the slimline and hugely attractive Victoria Newton, the Sun's resident gossip writer who despite having no discernible talent is still given two pages to fill every day. She decided to use this picture to illustrate this story, claiming that the band are being forced to go on a strict training regime to make them lose weight.
Now, anyone of a reasonably intelligent frame of mind would use this as a launchpad to take a stand and lambast the image obsessed music industry for making perfectly fit, healthy and normal sized young girls go thrrough a programme designed to turn them into anorexic looking sticks, thus encouraging the myth that you have to be a rake to be attractive. And given the rise of eating disorders among teenage girls, this is not a good thing. So, what does Miss Newton do? Well, she describes the girls as porky, and informs us that she likes the idea of seeing popstarts sweat. She positively revels in the complete evilness of what their management are doing. In short, she acts like a jealous cow who will hopefully be lambasted by the medical profession for the utter stupidity of what she's saying. Presumably she sees Atomic Kitten as being outstanding examples of feminine beauty, and not just a substitute for skeletons in anatomy classes.
