Prejudice against the ugly
This from Comment Is Free’s Tanya Boyle.
Susan will probably win Britain’s Got Talent. She will be the little munter that could sing, served up for the British public every Saturday night. Look! It’s “ugly”! It sings! And I know that we think that this will make us better people. But Susan Boyle will be the freakish exception that makes the rule. By raising this Susan up, we will forgive ourselves for grinding every other Susan into the dust. It will be a very partial and poisoned redemption. Because Britain’s Got Malice. Sing, Susan, sing – to an ugly crowd that doesn’t deserve you.
She’s right, in general. There are people who will be genuinely happy for her, because they empathise with what she’s had to go through.
on 7 July 2009 at 1:19 am
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…and there are some of us that might be equally uncute, but not even as talented but way smarter than most people that do not even get an opportunity to sing our songs.
on 28 April 2010 at 2:16 pm
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Susan Boyle may not be a very good looking woman but she has an angelic voice. “
on 28 April 2010 at 2:37 pm
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She really does. It should be all that matters.