Victoria Beckham's a lousy role model

I don't know how others feel about her. I just thought I'd post this as I haven't heard that much criticism of her and I feel a little uneasy about this.

IMO Victoria Beckham is a terrible role model for women.

First off, she looks like a skinny freak who, along with her perpetual frown, looks gaunt and unhappy. Her breasts look ridiculously artificial - she'd achieve the same look if she just stuck two ping pong balls down her Dolce & Gabana top. She comes across as domineering and is pretty suited to her hubby David Beckham who correspondingly comes across as docile and brainless and content enough to stay under her laquered taloned thumb. And furthermore, for all her money and access to amazing designer labels, she still manages who put together a tasteless ensemble that looks like she picked it up on the high street.

Ouch I sound bitchy don't I?! Well I felt it had to be said. Plastering her all over glossy mags p1sses me off - is it supposed to be the zenith of high society to be unnaturally skinny and have a strained withered expression? Nicole Ritchie is another female "personality" who should be eliminated from having her pathetic picture spread all over the glossy magazine media. IMO she is mentally sick and should not be made to look in any way glamourous.

sb: OK I guess it's different over in the US than it is here in Ireland and England in terms of the celebs who receive the most media attention. Victoria Beckham is at the top of the board on that score. I single her out from the others that you mentioned because she indirectly encourages and courts with the media and is ready with a slinky pose and a pout whenever there's a camera about. Kate Moss doesn't enocurage media interest in this way, if anythign she would prefer to evade it given her extra curricular habits.....😉 Paris Hilton, again doesn't profess to be a perfect woman with good values and high morals, she just flaunts her stuff and behaves like a buffoon.

Victoria Beckham is treated by the media here like she is the unoffical social first lady of Britain, a bit like Jackie Onasis was, except that she catually did have style and grace and poise and didn't have to rely on how skinny she was and which ski resort she was sipping red wine at to "be".

sb I agree with youwhen you say that it's the job of parents and guardians to point out the fallacy of these celeb types from their youngsters and stir them away from the illusion that these magazines portray.

But I suppose my question is......WHY do the media focus on these types of people when there are so many more deserving and noble celebs to cover and spread over their covers. People, who actually say things that make sense and are interesting, who are inspiring, genuine. I don't think this is an illusion, I think there really are people like this around, even in high society! So after that question, then I wonder: why would the media want to portray those celeb people who have pretty sick self images and basically don't have healthy life style s, in terms of diet, drugs, partners. Like, for example to have an article about VB for example and talking to her about her latest "project", then they'll have pics of her looking dour and underweight so that they are basically reinforcing the concept of "SUCCESSFUL & RICH WOMAN" with "EATING DISORDER" and "UNHAPPINESS". Now why would they do it if they know that the majority of their reading audience is in the late teens/early twenties bracket?

This makes me think that they need to do an overhaul of standards of decency in media circles. IMO they should be made to follow a certain code of conduct below which they are obliged legally not to fall and that should include engaging in the childish practice of mocking people and their weight and haunding celebs when they're on their "days off" and doing their regular things. Call it censorship if you will but I think it's called for.

sb: "This makes me think that they need to do an overhaul of standards of decency in media circles. IMO they should be made to follow a certain code of conduct below which they are obliged legally not to fall and that should include engaging in the childish practice of mocking people and their weight and haunding celebs when they're on their "days off" and doing their regular things. Call it censorship if you will but I think it's called for."

Well my problem with that is that there are already laws in place that allow people to protest articles like that.

Do you mean that you disagree with having decency rules governing standards in advertising etc? IMO they have rules in place already preventing graphic images of sex and or violence being plastered in public. I just think they need to add a few clauses to these laws so that suggestive articles glamourizing borderline annorexics like VB or Nicole Ritchie for example, are eliminated. It's just bad taste and sending a very bad subliminal message to everyone especially impressionable young people. Of course a law implementing this has to be very precise as some laws/rules can have a negative impact. I mean, in some people's book this is another form of censorship which may be so but it would mild and intelligent and ensure that ignorant trash like what I just described is caught in the net.

GL: You met your idol! Wow! He's got pretty big eyes. Congrats. Does Jase approve?

Victoria two words brain dead if the IQ was one point less she would be growing someplace.

I was going to say she sucks but I here she is good at that.

james_tate:

"Victoria two words brain dead if the IQ was one point less she would be growing someplace."

Yes ok I agree with that. But every glossy tabloid paper or magazine that immediately jumps out at me when I'm browzing in a shop mostly is depicting this type of imagery, ie either making fun of some celeb or other who's been photographed at such an angle to make them look fat/flabby/old/etc etc, or showing as described earlier, people like VB who's potrayed as living the high life, being a successful, strong woman while photographing her looking like a skinny freak. It was similar with Geri Haliwell the other former spice girl) who a few years ago was very underweight and received most media attention because of this. In fact that's about the only reason she generated media attention since she doesn't really have much apparent talent.

This kinda of trend in media coverage represents a new low for media standards IMO. I personally don't remember that these kind of nasty ignorant articles were featured say 10 years ago.

But I still stand by my opinion that there should be higher standards in place for the content that tabloid editors are permitted to print. They have a version of this in France, say, where privacy laws there prohibit journalists from invading movie stars and such by persuing them relentlessly with zoom cameras like they do elsewhere.

I agree about V Beckham, completely........I would like to know how the woman can possibly be so immaculate with three kids to care for. How is it that she never has chocolate handprints all over her t***s or has no baby wipes sticking out of her designer handbag. For all they are idolised many celebs in all categories are rarely happy, V's man can't keep his thingy in his trousers for all her supposed perfections........

Because its all staged, she has her posse the people who follow her everywhere she goes to make her look good, For God sakes look at the two of them they are a Ken and Barby set.

Message posted by: james tate on 5/4/2006 6:14:00 AM

For God sakes look at the two of them they are a Ken and Barby set.

I completely agree........I also think that beckham is one of the lest manliest men I can think of. Those eyebrows look like a girls.......Yet most footballers are fairly poncy anyways.

Think about this he can't help his kid with basic math, he has to go to her. somebody please put them in the garden where they belong.

Hehehehe! James_tate you should do stand up!

sb: Granted it is everyone's choice what material they choose to read/view and what they choose to ignore. But the brash tabloid glossies which jump out at you on every newspaper stand in every convenience grocery store pretty much takes this choice away from you. It bombards you with these images. Therefore it steps over a line IMO. Yeah I know it's a very subtle line to define also to police. I think maybe if it is openly condemned on TV for example, in equal measures as they splash this trash on the magazine racks then maybe that's another way of combatting it. Like I feel there's a kind of apathy in this area, like it's ok that magazines poke fun at people becasue they're fat or do photoshoots of celebs with eatting disorders and pretty much overlook the whole annorexia isssue and talk about how fantastic they are. It's all a farce and a fake and at worst potentially sending damaging ideas to some people. This kind of behavior is actually a form of bullying which would be chastised if a child was doing it.