While I can't say I have been following the 'story' closely, it has been hard to avoid the whole David Beckham, did he / didn't he? situation recently. But I saw a headline in the supermarket today that really underlined the hypocrisy of the whole sorry affair - something along the lines of 'My marriage agony, by Victoria Beckham'.
Puh-lease! The only difference between any pain that Mrs Beckham may be feeling right now and that felt by any number of other women who find themselves in similar situations is that her marriage troubles are being splashed all over the media. And this is because... its precisely how she has chosen to live her life!
I am certain the Beckhams are going through a complex, painful, conflicted time in their lives - but they have got there through the choices they freely made. We do not need them held up as totemic of our more pedestrian feelings, for celebrities (as portrayed in the media) parody emotion; they celebrate the surface, the shallow, the unreal.
P.S. If Victoria were a real artist, she would take her pain and create something out of it - not use it to turn (yet) a(nother) quick buck.
Posted by lankyphil at April 17, 2004 10:41 PM | TrackBack