My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

AIBU?

To find the Daily Mail to be totally misogynistic

73 replies

lowlandlady · 25/08/2009 23:06

I mean every day they have an article saying a woman doesn't look nice, or a woman has gained wait or, Well Done! A Good Little Woman has Lost Weight! And is looking lovely again!
Oh But Nigella is looking FAT and sloppy shame on you Nigella you slattern!
Kerry Katona is a mentalist! Naughty mental fat mental Katona!
Helena Bonham Carter is nearly 50, has had two children and has an ILL FITTING SWIMMING COSTUME.
Followed by a really unflaterring photo of her. I mean how horrible are the tossers who do this?

OP posts:
Report
isittooearlyforgin · 25/08/2009 23:11

well, this is basic Daily Mail stuff. If I looked the vaguest bit like Nigella in her 'frumpy' black dress, i'd be delighted!

Report
Katisha · 25/08/2009 23:12

DM is bad about this sort of thing but it is pretty prevalent among all sleb-type publications.

Report
HerBeatitude · 25/08/2009 23:15

Yes mysogynist and plain bad mannered. Pointing and staring. FGS did no-one ever teach them manners.

Report
AbricotsSecs · 25/08/2009 23:17

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

AbricotsSecs · 25/08/2009 23:19

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

MaggieLeo · 25/08/2009 23:22

I tried to leave a comment saying that she was hardly fat, and even if she were, she's not a model and not being paid to be thin nor did she ever claim to be thin or promise to GET thin.......

but I think I've been deleted from their files. I left a comment on the article about Ricky Martin's having two children without a mum, saying that if it were the other way round the DM would give the mother a lash for being selfish.

Instead of printing my comment, I now find I can't log in. funny that.

Report
SomeGuy · 25/08/2009 23:24

Some typical DM headlines:

PAEDOPHILE ASYLUM-SEEKERS SWAMP BRITAIN

BAN THIS SICK FILTH!

TIDE OF ASIANS UNSTOPPABLE

WORKING WOMEN - WHY OH WHY?

SIKHS IN SURREY: IS NOWHERE SAFE?

PAKIS RUN WILD IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS

FURY AS MUSLIM MOVES NEXT DOOR

NOW IN BROWN'S BRITAIN BEING RACIST IS "RACIST"

LESBIAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS TORMENT MIDDLE-ENGLAND

BOY IN ROAD ACCIDENT AFTER PLAYING RESIDENT EVIL 4!

WORKING CLASS SCUM WITHIN 50 MILES OF YOUR SUBURB

WILL WHITE BRITONS GO THE WAY OF THE RED SQUIRREL?

HOW BROWN FLEECES MIDDLE-CLASS TO FUND GAY ADOPTION

ARE BRUSSELS BUREAUCRATS DEFRAUDING HARD WORKING BRITS?

EVIL ISLAMIC NEWSPAPERS PRINT EXAGGERATIONS AS HEADLINES!

98 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER DIES AFTER CHILD RECEIVES TRIPLE JAB - "NO COINCIDENCE" SAYS FAMILY

NEW WAVE OF IMMIGRANTS HAVE A TYPE OF AIDS THAT LOWERS HOUSE PRICES

POLISH ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE EATING OUR SWANS

SHOCK: WATER CAUSES CANCER

CHRISTMAS BANNED BY 'PC GONE MAD' COUNCIL

Report
SlartyBartFast · 25/08/2009 23:24

she cooks for a living, doesnt she?
how else shoudl she look.
[although if i had her figure i would be happy - and i dont cook for a living]

Report
HeadFairy · 25/08/2009 23:26

YANBU at all. Horrible rag. Nigella looks lovely and very happy.

Report
AbricotsSecs · 25/08/2009 23:27

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

scottishmummy · 25/08/2009 23:40

so dont fucking read it or link it if its shite

how comes you know its content enough to list and its link page, and you glean this daily?do you have it delivered daily?

or did you find it in a cafe ?

Report
tethersend · 25/08/2009 23:40

my favourite

Report
AbricotsSecs · 25/08/2009 23:43

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

SomeGuy · 25/08/2009 23:43

well yes, clearly the OP reads the DM avidly, daily.

It's very good at what it does. It's very well put together. And the online version is great, because you can pretend to be a po-faced DM hating right-on Independent reader, while still avidly looking at the DM online (doesn't count, because it's free).

Report
Jugglers · 25/08/2009 23:46

SomeGuy has tried to go all 'Private Eye' on us and it failed.

The thing to do is to take some of DM actual headlines rather than make them up - sometimes the truth is stranger (and far more terrifying) than the fiction!!

The 'blood' that DM has running thru its veins is the worship of manna that sustains the new middle classes, and the thing that keeps them afloat is house prices.... anything that can affect the price of a home or the value of a neighbourhood and be printed on the front page will sell, hence the bollocks that pass for headlines!!

And so it goes on - the whole thing sucks. The nouveau riche will kick up merry hell if they think the chavs are descending on their enclaves and the chavs will follow cheap housing.

Obviously the only thing more terrifying to the average DM reader (reader?) is your johnny foreigner, especially one of those non swarthy European sorts - it's the end of the world as we know it!!

Report
scottishmummy · 25/08/2009 23:47

yes blah bah none of you read DM but hell know its comntents well enough to discuss

i dont read it and couldnt tell you its latest tirade. i may guess but i dont know

Report
madameDefarge · 25/08/2009 23:47

[http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/ for those of you who need your DM fix, here's a new toy - completely real DM-free!]

Report
madameDefarge · 25/08/2009 23:48

and again

Report
tethersend · 25/08/2009 23:49

Is there an echo in here? I just posted it too, madame

Report
madameDefarge · 25/08/2009 23:51

excellent! where did you post yours?

Report
scottishmummy · 25/08/2009 23:51

oh how very socialsciencetastic.bet y'all peed yourself laughing

still talkin about DM though arent you?MN and DM have a rael thang folk here fecveriously deny and espouse it,yet link and discuss it

Report
madameDefarge · 25/08/2009 23:51

ooops sorry, just spotted it!

Great minds, eh?

Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

tethersend · 25/08/2009 23:52

just a few posts above you.... have a look!

Report
RumourOfAHurricane · 25/08/2009 23:52

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

madameDefarge · 25/08/2009 23:53

aw, c'mon shiney, DM baiting is a public service!

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.