Miriam Gonzalez Durantez (that's Nick Clegg's decidedly better half to you & me) has called for people to "Stop labelling women as fluffy or scary" and called for more promotion of suitable role models for girls. I couldn't agree more. Funny then, that the story I've linked to is in the Daily Mail whose 'Femail Today' column which runs down the left-hand side of the web-page is full of stories about the women who should be at the bottom of every mother's list of people they'd want as role models for their daughters.
Katie Price - famous for getting her tits out, having a Pink Car (haven't we been here before?) and having 4 children to 3 different fathers.
Miley Cyrus - famous for shoving her arse in the face of a married man at the VMA Awards and getting near-naked at every opportunity in order to court controversy and gain publicity for her below-average music career.
Madonna - famous for getting various parts of her scrawny anatomy out at various points in her career (usually when public attention was dwindling), flicking between religions like most of us change our brand of chopped tomatoes and shagging a dancer young enough to be her son.
Lauren Silverman/Sinitta/Terri Seymour/Mezhgan Husseiny - famous for shagging Simon Cowell and not being able to let go when he gets bored of them because he carries on spending vast amounts of cash on them and letting them holiday on his yacht.
Any Kardashian - Let's face it, they're all equally vapid, vain and vile so no point in singling out one over the others. All married/had kids with rich and/or famous men to ensure a luxurious lifestyle going forward. You go girls - great example of how to get on in life.
Helen Flanagan (and most other young soap actresses) - Famous for not being good enough at acting to be cast in a proper TV drama, film or theatre production, for wearing not many clothes, almost flashing their tits, shagging Premiership footballers then being surprised when they get dumped or two-timed.
Victoria's Secret 'Angels' - Angels, ha! There's a laugh. Famous for parading around in underwear giving male commuters uncomfortable trouser moments on the bus. Very angelic.
Various Supermodels - Famous for being skeletally thin & unhealthy, doing drugs to stay that way and encouraging eating disorders in young women. But stylish, very stylish, which makes it OK.
Katie Hopkins & Samantha Brick - Professional Bitches.
Now I know that there's no sensationalism in reporting how well Fiona Bruce reads the news, or what an incisive interviewer Mishal Hussain is, or how Teresa May has been sticking it to the EU on control of our borders, or how Carolyn McCall has steered Easyjet's share prices skywards or how Bettany Hughes has brought Classicism to the masses. But we owe it to ourselves and to our daughters to promote these women as the people to look up to, to aspire to be like. They should be given prominence in the media way before these vacuous bimbos and damaged attention seekers.
Ms Gonzalez Durantez is absolutely spot-on and I really hope that she is listened to and is able to use her position to bring about change. Not holding my breath though, frankly...
Feminist Misogynist -v- Female Role Models
