‘She accidentally got in my video’
As blogs go – this one’s been traumatic.
Deciding once again to venture outside my comfort
zone (a small area three feet removed from what passes for where-it’s-at in modern
Britain) I decided to point my modest blog in the direction of what’s trending. This foolish decision brought
me into cyber space vicinity with a creature so ghastly in character she could
be a plasticine monster in a Ray Harryhausen film.
And then things got worse.
I skimmed some youtube footage.
This Hopkins thing - top of Monday morning’s
‘trending’ list, is known not just for spewing vile poison but revelling in a
sort of carcinogenic, internalised misogyny.
Then it got surreal. I realised that this social
sister to Clarkson and Farage with her revolting attitudes, playground bully persona
and toilet spirit was vaguely familiar. She’d snuck into my video for last
week’s blog (Magazine Misery).
She is one of the pointless celebrities
scrumpled up in the background and just visible towards the end.
Apart from the usual thing that depresses me about
these gremlins (i.e. WHY are they given so much media time) she seems to have
made a name for herself criticising the appearance of other women. The teenager
in me wondered why this moose-faced social dishrag who dresses like a 1970s
granny, feels she has the right. I mean on any level?
Although irretrievable minutes of my life were gone,
at least here is part of the answer to why the rich and powerful get to do
pretty much as they please in this ancient democracy. The populous is too drugged
up – almost OD’d on celebrity detritus and brain-clogged with the sewer end of
media overflow to form rational thoughts.
The impulse, even for research purposes, to observe
what was trending died a quick, miserable death just as this woman was replaced
on the top spot by someone else I didn’t know who HAD A NEW PAIR OF SPECTACLES.
So here is a ditty about Richard III instead – whose
monster status is at least a matter of conjecture. He only murdered potential
competition – not the nation’s soul.
Discontented Richard
Richard of
York gave battle in vain
Shakespeare
wrote him off
But he
turned up again!
(by my inner
child!)