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Katie Price, the latest woman to be tied to the internet's whipping post Katie Price, the latest woman to be tied to the internet's whipping post
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Poor old Katie Price, née Jordan. The latest woman to be tied to the internet's whipping post.Poor old Katie Price, née Jordan. The latest woman to be tied to the internet's whipping post.
Emoting her hurt on social media as she is doing today is perhaps the equivalent of drunk texting, raw emotion with no filter. No doubt she can’t help herself, the pain of discovering her new husband is having an affair with her best friend is clearly excruciating and pouring it out in sentences of 140 characters or less to 1.84million followers might be the only outlet she has just at the moment.Emoting her hurt on social media as she is doing today is perhaps the equivalent of drunk texting, raw emotion with no filter. No doubt she can’t help herself, the pain of discovering her new husband is having an affair with her best friend is clearly excruciating and pouring it out in sentences of 140 characters or less to 1.84million followers might be the only outlet she has just at the moment.
But it is mostly to a gimlet-eyed, heartless audience. Of the sort I imagine would gather round at witch burnings to bray and point as some poor soul who didn’t conform to the niceties of medieval society went up in agony and smoke. The frenzied delight as the crows of Twitter descend to peck at her misery is tangible.But it is mostly to a gimlet-eyed, heartless audience. Of the sort I imagine would gather round at witch burnings to bray and point as some poor soul who didn’t conform to the niceties of medieval society went up in agony and smoke. The frenzied delight as the crows of Twitter descend to peck at her misery is tangible.
So why is Price hated? Like Ulrika Jonson - unkindly dubbed ‘four by four” - and Kate Winslet who was awarded the moniker “Calamity Kate”, Price has committed the sin of having different fathers for some of her children. Funny how Rupert Murdoch, Mick Jagger, Hugh Grant, Kevin Costner, Nicolas Sarkozy, George Foreman, Rod Stewart, the list goes on and on and on, somehow aren’t known first for their multiple partner parenting. So why is Price hated? Like Ulrika Jonson - unkindly dubbed ‘four by four” - and Kate Winslet who was awarded the moniker “Calamity Kate”, Price has committed the sin of having different fathers for some of her children. Funny how Rupert Murdoch, Mick Jagger, Hugh Grant, Kevin Costner, Nicolas Sarkozy, George Foreman, Rod Stewart, the list goes on and on and on, somehow aren’t known first for their multiple partner parenting.
I used to have a grudging admiration for Katie Price in her heyday, she became a fierce businesswoman and made a lot of money by thoroughly exploited her physical assets. Although I’d rather the market for what she was selling wasn’t there, she was taking the numpties for every penny.I used to have a grudging admiration for Katie Price in her heyday, she became a fierce businesswoman and made a lot of money by thoroughly exploited her physical assets. Although I’d rather the market for what she was selling wasn’t there, she was taking the numpties for every penny.
It is a risky venture as a woman to make yourself the commerical product and expose everything you have and are to the public gaze. People start to feel they can judge you, pull you apart, kick dust in your face when you’re down. Price herself played into that horrible game, hitting out at critics and other celebrities, as over-defensive as a damaged teenager.It is a risky venture as a woman to make yourself the commerical product and expose everything you have and are to the public gaze. People start to feel they can judge you, pull you apart, kick dust in your face when you’re down. Price herself played into that horrible game, hitting out at critics and other celebrities, as over-defensive as a damaged teenager.
This week Monica Lewinsky talked about how awful her life became after that brief affair with Bill Clinton in 1998. She says she was the first trolling victim, the first to really feel the abusive power of the internet against her.This week Monica Lewinsky talked about how awful her life became after that brief affair with Bill Clinton in 1998. She says she was the first trolling victim, the first to really feel the abusive power of the internet against her.
Who, I wonder, will be the last?Who, I wonder, will be the last?