'Saint' Paul McCartney and 'Devilwoman' Heather

[violetblue]

To change the subject totally from recent matters, Is anyone else sick of the way this couple is being represented in the media? I for one am not interested in their divorce, but it is making headline coverage. I really can't see how the parties in any divorce can be portrayed as perfect/terrible in the way in which these two are being painted. It seems like little as changed since the Victorian Madonna/***** dichotomy of women. Surely Paul can be a pain in the arse too? Surely the wife must be suffering from the continual battering she gets in the press, and having to live in Linda's shadow?

[sp1814]

There's wrong on both sides. Lady Macca simply doesn't come across well to the public.

...and Paul has purple hair.

[violetblue]

NB the word was wh*ore, a valid word used by literary critics to describe the way women were portrayed by Victorian (and modern?) writers.

[aristotle]

As I have no interest in this subject (or anything else to do with "celebrities") I don't read anything in the newspaper about it.. If it bothers you that much, why don't you do the same?

[noxlumos]

I think it was a reasonably intelligent question discussing the media's overtly biased coverage of a situation which anyone who has a modicom of intelligence would have to realise would be six of one and half a dozen of the other.
I couldn't personally care less about a fairly talentless man who happened to catch the public's affection with a series of, at best, banal songs produced something like 40 years ago where he was not even the main contributor. I don't care about his "look at me I'm SOOOOO charitable, just like the Princess of Wales" wife either, but in the bigger scheme of things I do care about blatant misrepresentation in the press and the dumbing down of society in general as the press get the mob baying as they sling another celebrity to the lions.
She has feelings like everyone else and their daughter is just going to love reading this rubbish when she's older.It's such a shame that this c**p sells newspapers.
I'm now waiting to see how some people on here can turn this round to all being the Muslims fault...Lol

[violetblue]

Noxlumus you took the words out of my mouth! My point was of the biased, seemingly unfounded, unintelligent, kneejerk coverage that plays to people's judgemental instincts. The coverage of this story - which, to me, is trivial - illustrates the potential for sensationalist bias which runs through other, much more newsworthy stories.

[Xanthippe]

I agree, violetblue. I feel she is being treated appallingly by the press. I think Paul McCartney must have a good press agent because he and his lawyer split up the Beatles many years ago, but Yoko got the blame. The press seem to prefer the manipulative woman angle in such stories and some newpaper editors appear to have a bit of an 'Eve' complex.

Love the final comment nox, so true!!!

[violetblue]

YEs, Xanthippe, I made the point about McCartney and the Beatles' split but took it out as it made the question seem too long. Glad others see through his considerable PR machine!

[steviep165]

i agree with all your points about the lack of morality in the gutter press. i still fail to see how this woman can justify a claim for �200m. thats golddigging pure and simple. she comes from the same area my family do and her reputaion goes a looooong way back.

[violetblue]

How does anyone know she's claiming this amount? Isn't this something that the very same press have put in the public domain? Has anyone seen the legal papers? I haven't.

[steviep165]

would you knock back 20mil violetblue?

[violetblue]

I'm not sure of your point. The point I'm making is, who on earth other than they and their lawyers know what has been offered at all, if anything? I'm sure the press weren't privvy to that information, and this is the type of information on which she is being judged. I'm neither defending nor attacking either of them, just saying that the press coverage is sensationalist and biased from the outset. They just don't like her - no doubt she's told a few of them to f*ck off once or twice - and they have decided to 'get' her. This happened also to Linda at the outset, she was villified for taking precious Paul away from the teenyboppers; Yoko Ono continues to be slated in the press even now that John's dead. It's ridiculous.

[libertie]

Personally I think that anyone who managed to stick with the boring one for any length of time deserves every penny they get! Totally agree with the comments about the press and am still smiling at Nox's last sentence!! Like Heather Mills or loathe her she was always going to be up against it!!

[sp1814]

All

Whilst I understand people being fed up with the inane coverage of celebrity lives in newspapers and magazines, can I just put an alternative point of view...

...some people, me included, LOVE slagging off celebs. Its something we can do whilst brewing a coffee in the canteen. It's something that unites strangers in pubs.

Salicious gossip makes us feel warm and happy.

We like to take side, we like to read the unfolding chapters of s story which doesn't affect us and our friends.

I've already made up my mind about Paul and Heather, and look forward to reading further details in Heat.

Please allow us, and by 'us' I mean 'me', our trivial pursuit of celebrity tittle tattle.

So to answer Violet...I'm loving the coverage, but it's not that important. I don't think all news needs to be important.

[libertie]

He he...methinks you need to give sp1814 another 3*s violetblue for being refreshingly honest!!

[violetblue]

I agree with sp - I read 'Heat' all the time and love it - I'm just fed up with the way it's always the woman that seems to get kicked in the head, whilst the bloke can do little wrong.

[sp1814]

Thank you for the stars, but I'm not proud of my Heat addiction. As a bloke, I have to slide it carefully in between the pages of 'Auto Express' to read it on the tube (I'm not joking...I actually do this).

But back to Heather and Paul and the original post...I think we need to have heroes and villians...many people simply aren't interested in grey areas, and there are very few people who are wholly wicked, or wholly saintly.

I wish both of them the best, and hope that they are able to resolve their differences in such a way as to protect their daughter.

No-one wants to see their mum and dad at loggerheads.

...but if they DO break up bitterly, I shall be reading about it in Heat feeling guilty all the same.

[jonnythebosh]

This whole situation has come about because Heather is a Muslim extremist and was going to carry out a suicide attack on Paul. She was going to carry out this attack with explosives hidden in her false leg.Her motivation for the attack was the over use of the peace sign, constant preaching about vegetarian beliefs, hair dye overkill and the cover of Sgt Pepper which contained mocking cartoons of Allah.
Happy Nox?

[noxlumos]

Beautiful Johnny... and I KNEW it would be you. Lol