My feminist comments are not obnoxious.
You don’t work on Broadway, you work under a rock in the Jurassic Period, and Ted, you’re just like a five year old with no concept of modern day society.
I would not even dignify calling you a moron. You’re worse.

Read Beverly McPhail’s article on Google today,
“Let’s makeover cultural bias”

Read and learn

MORONS

I do hope the fame doesn’t go to her head; there are rumors she is considering plastic surgery! Part of her charm is her natural beauty. . .

You’re absolutely right. It’s called manipulation. And we as an audience were manipulated to think Ms Boyle was a “weirdo”, hence the “funny music” as she came onstage.

I’m not denigrating Susan Boyle’s obvious talent at all … just the dishonesty factor the GBT Team use to make her even more of an underdog.

She had to go through a preliminary audition and they’d have known then they had something special.

Cowell at least, if not Dumbo Morgan and Mutton-dressed-as-lamb Holden, knew of Ms Boyle well before her very public first showing. PR Guru (and general pain-in-the-bum) Max Clifford said as much in a very recent interview.

And of course … the manipulation was successful.

25 million YouTube and worldwide fame through viralvid is testament not just to Susan Boyle’s talent … but also how intrusive media-manipulation can be!

If I had the chance to arrange her act with that peticular song, ( I Dreamed a Dream ) it would be something very much like actress Carol Burnette performed on some of her TV show skits when she sang. Remember the ‘ Maid with the mop and bucket ‘ act that she occationaly did on her TV skits when she sang a sad ballad ? It would be perfect set up for Susan with such an act and I dare say that there wouldn’t be a dry eye in the house!

Susan, on behalf of all the people that still continue to dream their dream, we thank you ! Bravo!

Nah…only the 11 million plus people who have listened to her sing.

I actually think it’s even better then her ‘Britian’s Got Talent Performance’.

That would reduce me to a a very big puddle of tears. Susan is absolutely amazing!!!!!

I agree with every word you say, because the world is exactly like that. Only Ted is too stupid to see it.

Gemma said I was right in the things I said. Look at the start of her blog.
Things are changing for women.
I can’t help it, if you’re angry at that.
You’re a dinosaur and you would look very good in the Natural History Museum with the other exhibits.
Sexist men like you are getting out of fashion.

Tatty bye.

I applaud Susan for keeping her dream alive, not letting anyone else put her down, or tell her to forget her dream, just because ‘they’ thought (?) it best for her.

Susan Boyle does Not have to be a skinny anorexic twit, she’s fine just as she is, and has a lovely voice, and charming personality. I hope she goes on to make many recordings, and I will buy one or more of all of them.

Why so mad at Hollywood? Maybe you should direct your anger at the phone booth company in England.

It was like watching the puniest kid on the playground bash the bully in the head with a dodge ball.

Yep, she’s 47, single, lives with ‘Pebbles’, is unemployed, has a learning disability….and is unattractive.

Honestly, how could I not love this person?

I’ve never fit into this cultures idea of beauty either…I reached 5’10 and 170lbs by the time I was in 9th grade. I’m a line backer of a woman. The fact that I wanted to be an artist and wore combat boots and ‘Ramone’s’ shirts didn’t make me any more attractive.

Guess what? I’m still 5’10, 170lbs, and wearing ‘Ramone’s’ shirts at 35….and yes, still trying to get my work seen and in galleries. Susan Boyle makes me not want to give up.

Ann Hathaway and Paris Hilton are not the type of people I have ever aspired to be. Shockingly, I’ve found most women don’t find them inspiring either. Maybe Susan Boyle is what many of us have been looking for all these years.

I hope her first record goes platinum….and she gets Pebbles a diamond collar.

There is a lot of undiscovered talent in this world. In Susan’s case, we all feel as if WE discovered her, as, in fact, we each did when we first heard her. Be thankful for that feeling you got at that moment. Such feelings can be rare in one’s life

Even my brother, my big burly truck-driving motorcycle-riding gun-toting brother, got tears in his eyes watching it. Then he couldn’t stop raving about how amazing she was, except when he was thanking me for making him watch it. (He’d been sent the link by a few people before me, but he blew them off.)

I hope only wonderful things come to Susan from this!

http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.2501746.0.the_beauty_tha t_matters_is_always_on_the_inside.php

http://digg.com/d1opbc

Models and actresses don’t starve themselves of their own free will. They are victimised and they are desperately striving to change the Status Quo.
These actresses know the damaging messages Hollywood is setting to young women.Those actressess who are at the very heart of the film industry have real life stories to tell of their experience in the industry, and they paint a damming picture of the harsh reality they face as actressess.

Example. Clare Sweeny, that lovely great actress from Brookside went to Hollywood recently and was told that, even prior to being granted an audition she would have to go down to a size 6 when she was already a size 8. I bet you did not know that.
She preferred not to starve herself in the end, as she preferred to keep her dignity with a healthy size 8 figure, thank you very much,and went back to England afew pounds heavier, but with her head held high.

Another example is Emily Blunt, who has gone from strength to strength in Hollywood.
However, recently Ms. Blunt complained bitterly, that she was made to starve herself for a role in
The Devil Wears Prada. In her own words, she painfully described how she and fellow actress Anne Hathaway were crying in each others arms from starvation. Ms Blunt proceeded to explain how undignified it was watching other actressess eating a handful of cheese cubes, and looking ill because the size zero culture is something that is imposed on them. Hardly something I would call free will self starvation, Gemma.
Are these enough examples for you, Gemma?
They are hardly singular cases.

Thank God sex makes the world go round.Sex does indeed sell, and women are as much entitled to be titilated by sexual images as the men are. But there is rather a shortage of men selling the sex.
Gemma, the point I am making has escaped you and that is that women are used in a sexual content to sell it far, far more than men are, and most women would agree to that.
Gemma, you may not want to see a brawny male sprawled all over a car, but millions of women might just buy that car if a semi naked muscular young man were sprawled all over it,rather than an anorexic looking woman. It’s mainly the women who sell through sex. How disproportionate is that. Since there are as many women drivers as there are men, I would say they are as much entitled to be titilated by sexual images as the men are, only thing is, most women want to see men in sexually provocative positions, not other women.

I don’t think the human race would die out if less than beautiful women were employed to advertise cars and swimsuits to sell them. A woman like Susan Boyle or Ann Widdecombe can be just as sexually alluring as say
Jordan. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Most women would rather buy a swimsuit modelled by say Susan Boyle or Ann Widdecome, simply because most women don’t look like those air brushed chicks on the posters and in mags. Most women know that they can’t and simply do not want to measure up to the glossy supermodel bimbo babe image which quite frankly are intimidating.

You’re obviously not British

Ever heard of Kings Cross in London.
If you want to see the naked, heavy duty porn pictures of women free of charge in the phone booths there, go see.

Next time you’re in London,that is.

Happy Sight Seeing.

Maybe you never see the sexualization of men because you’re not looking for it, just as you only saw what you wanted to see in Gemma’s comment.

I’m just curious where these phone booths are that are plastered with pictures of naked women. I’ve never seen that in my life.

As far as Clinton and Obama, why don’t you compare McCain and Obama? They chose the more attractive yuong man to the older, less attractive man. Obama was all about the charisma. In other words, you just disproved your own point – it happens to men, too.

Look outside your narrow little perceptions and see the world around you, hannah. Oops, looks like I replied a little. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. You’re not paying attention, anyways.

You are so very right in all that you say, and believe me it is not just your opinion, but what you say is FACT. There is not one woman on this planet who has not experienced everything you write on this blog.

Ted
You’re dead wrong yet again. It is Women who, are mostly judged on their looks, not their entire lives, but when youth fades.
Cosmetic companies earn millions by feeding off women’s insecurities as they age.
The thousand pound a jar firming creams on the market are aimed at women and not at men,creating the false illusion that a sixty something woman can miraculously regenerate her youthful complexion by using their expensive products. What a load of………..
Incidentally, I think Susan Boyle should be a model for face creams, as she has the most amasingly beautiful skin.
Ted
You would do well to concider those millions of families who have wives, daughters , mothers and sisters who suffer from an eating disorder just to conform to the size zero culure; the hospitals are overflowing with their misery but you dodge that subject very conspicuously in your blog. I think it is because you very clearly know nothing about it. anorexia and bulimia are eating diseases that afflict women more than men, because they are judged more on their looks than men. It is a modern day plague which is exacerbated by the media. Women are victimized and bullied by this sexist phenomenon much more than men are. The top fashion houses of Europe are teeming with size zero models, who flog their skimpy overblown price taged fashions on us. Most women have a full figure, and it is the strong women who refuse to allow themselves to be bullied into submission by the Diors and Channels., and Versaces.

Ted, explain, if you can, why it is women rather than men who are targeted by this size zero culture, if as you claim men and women are judged the sameon looks, if you want to be nitpicking on words.
If you make a convincing argument for that, you’ll be a first. Of course Hollywood did not invent looks discrimination, but with the invention of more and more technically advanced and sophisticated media communication, of which Hollywood is only a part, society has, over the last century, been able to use those sophisticated tools to exploit and victimize women, especially in a tasteless, sexual content, which is offensive and abhorrent to women.
A classic example of this is how Young Women are used sexually to sell cars, by sprawling their bits all over billboard posters. I never see men being used like that.

With this technically advanced media, also comes the freedom to exploit women in other manifestations.

How many times do women need to go into telephone kiosks to make a quick call, only to see degrading and disgusting pictures of naked women and young girls, NOT MEN, plastered around every corner of the booth.

The only reason why women are judgmental about other women’s looks these days is because of the media pressure placed mostly on them.
A woman’s natural inclination is to side with other women; the suffragette movement surely teaches us that.

Women are desperately trying to change the current culture’s climate, but it is going at an alarmingly slow pace.

Women know all to well, that ageism is also something that affects them more than men.
The real reason why Hillary Clinton lost to obuma is because the American people preferred having a young male for President as opposed to a 60 something woman.
Men would not have felt so threatened by a young and very beautiful female candidate, as men like the notion or fantasy of being in control when they pick a woman for a position. A woman who appeals to their sexual desires has much more of a chance than one which does not. Men are like children, they like the fantasy of playing the knights in shining armour to a steretypical beauty in distress.

Men generally don’t like the notion of a middle aged woman running their affairs or their country.
Although Susan Boyle is a singer and not a politician, society needs women like her, because she represents most women’s needs, to be appreciated not for her glamorous, fabricated barbie doll size zero looks, but because she is more like the way most women are.

NORMAL.

I will have to look for a CD of her in the future.

Men and women are judged on their looks throughout their entire lives. That’s not something Hollywood invented.

And you yourself bring out the word “victimize” again. A little hyperbole, there. Who is victimizing women? Men? How about other women? That audience was full of judgmental women as well as judgmental men.

I do sing and I think she is awesome.

She can easily be part of the Celtic Women, hopefully you know who are them.

Does it EVER occur to people that “looks” are all based on luck? It’s a roll of the genetic dice.

It’s our SOULS that count…and only YOU can decide how beautiful your soul will or will not be…that’s what truly shines.

At first, I thought it was a joke — that someone had flipped a switch and played a pre-recorded session of a classically trained singer….when I realized it was really her – I was astounded. NOT because I didn’t believe a great voice could come out of her…but that ANYONE could sound that amazing without it being pre-recorded!

Even more amazing was that she seemed SURPRISED by all the accolades.

How does a talent such as hers go unnoticed for 47 years?????????

I guess people are too friggin’ blinded by Britney types and angry rappers with their pants dropped to their knees…..