More "middle-class" bollocks

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:09 pm

glasgowgril wrote:

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Working-class mothers, of course, let their daughters sleep with whomever they like.

I'm pretty confident that that is exactly what the Mail means.

Maybe the Mail listened to the lyrics of Common People by Pulp.

Fflaps · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:37 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ldren.html

Being a crap parent apparently deserves sympathy if you're middle class.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:07 pm

Reading the comments it appears the sado-masachist crowd is out in force.

ScottLondon · **Joined:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:39 pm **Posts:** 26

When Cherry adopted these 'angelic' sisters she thought a loving home would heal the wounds of their troubled past. How terrifyingly wrong she was

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... g-was.html

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The moment Cherry Willoughby saw a photograph of the two angelic-looking girls she was about to adopt is forever etched on her memory. ‘My hands were trembling as I opened the brown envelope,’ she recalls, ‘but when I saw their little faces, my heart leapt.’
A week later Cherry, a portrait artist, and her husband John, who had a well-paid job on an oil rig, went to visit three-year-old Maryann and her six-month-old sister Nicola at their foster home.

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But Cherry and John believed bringing up the sisters in a stable and loving home with all its middle-class trappings — a large five-bedroom house, a village school and supportive grandparents — would conquer all.

Because middle-class people don't raise bad kids, right?

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Today Cherry, 52, still struggles to comprehend what happened to her children — and admits that in many ways the adoption has ruined her life. Her marriage to John crumbled under the strain and she suffered a stroke, which doctors put down to severe stress.
So where did it all go wrong? And does this story demonstrate a child’s genetic make-up determines their future, rather than the love and care lavished on them?

Phew, thought not.

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‘John and I painted the spare room pink, splashed out on brand new prams and dressed the girls in designer clothes. When I went out passers-by commented on how gorgeous they both were and I was so proud.’

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Shortly after, the couple moved from their luxury flat into a large 17th century five-bedroom house in Wiltshire with rambling and formal gardens.

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she wants to warn other parents of the perils of adopting ‘damaged’ children.

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3299

What a horrible thing to happen, and what a horrible way of explaining it. Essentialist scummery.

Watchman · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:58 pm

Am I missing something here? Whats the real story?
It seems they have taken just about every worse case scenario, factored it up and let it run; i'm thinking Mrs Perfect Middle Class would have called social workers in long time ago to get her out the poo. So is it saying its all in the genes no matter how kind (by kind, I think their concept of kind is described perfectly well in the article!), to these "these people" they will always be scum, or is it a vieled attack on scoial workers in that they can't be trusted to give us perfect children. Ah the hated scocial workers....dammed by the Mail for Baby P..........and dammed by the Mail if they pull children out.

And also which oil fields was the hubby flying if he lived in Bristol

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:19 pm

I was always under the impression that the only people who lived in 'Luxury Flats' were the people who supposedly wrote letters into porn mags describing their latest 'amazing experience'.

glasgowgril · **Joined:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:51 pm **Posts:** 1439

Why such emphasis on the girls being blonde and blue-eyed? What has that got to do with anything? Are dark-haired and red-haired children all repellent, then?

Althea · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:26 pm

glasgowgril wrote:

Why such emphasis on the girls being blonde and blue-eyed? What has that got to do with anything?

Aryan race?

oboogie · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:30 pm

Althea wrote:

glasgowgril wrote:

Why such emphasis on the girls being blonde and blue-eyed? What has that got to do with anything?

Aryan race?

"Middle-class" is Mailspeak code for white.

glasgowgril · **Joined:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:51 pm **Posts:** 1439

Well naturally that goes without saying in the Mail. But this emphasis on blonde/blue-eyed as being the pinnacle of Aryan virtue has bugged me all my life. When i was a little kid in the early 60s it was taken for granted at my school that you couldn't be chosen as Mary or an angel in the nativity play if you weren't blonde and blue-eyed, and it rankles yet. Of course I expect the DM to still be wallowing in the attitudes of 50 years ago, but I am still at a loss to explain why even to a racist white + blonde + blue-eyed gets more points than white + dark-eyed + dark-haired. Or indeed red-haired.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:58 pm

It's simple stereotyping and applying crude value judgements based on the stereotypes. The Mail (and other reeking piles of excrement posing as newspapers) use stereotypes as a handy way of pushing buttons amongst the readership - as they always have - and blonde, blue eyed equals good, pure, wholesome. Partly because the readership is mostly below average intelligence and partly because it's easy and journalists are nothing if not lazy.

storygirl · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:48 pm

glasgowgril wrote:

Well naturally that goes without saying in the Mail. But this emphasis on blonde/blue-eyed as being the pinnacle of Aryan virtue has bugged me all my life. When i was a little kid in the early 60s it was taken for granted at my school that you couldn't be chosen as Mary or an angel in the nativity play if you weren't blonde and blue-eyed, and it rankles yet. Of course I expect the DM to still be wallowing in the attitudes of 50 years ago, but I am still at a loss to explain why even to a racist white + blonde + blue-eyed gets more points than white + dark-eyed + dark-haired. Or indeed red-haired.

I got the ruler ( back of the legs treatment) for pointing out to the teacher at primary school that whilst they were choosing a blonde girl again for the Nativity yet Mary would have been dark. This was in the late 70's. So it is not that hard to see how the idea of blonde equals superior persists.

I always was a terrible know it all :lol:

Abernathy · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:26 pm

storygirl wrote:

I got the ruler ( back of the legs treatment) for pointing out to the teacher at primary school

That goes some way to explaining the blog.........

croissantfever · **Posted:** Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:13 pm

Watchman wrote:

And also which oil fields was the hubby flying if he lived in Bristol

If you work on an offshore rig it's not unusual to live a long way from Aberdeen or Yarmouth and commute. I think the rotation in the UK is 2 weeks offshore, 2 weeks at home. I once met a woman working offshore in Norway who lived in Spain. [/pedantry]

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