Tp think Sinead O'Connor should learn some manners?

[breadyegg]

Just saw her on the BBC. How rude was she to that interviewer? She needs a slap...

I like her as an artist. Have ever so slightly gone off her...

[Theicingontop]

I haven't seen it, but she's said so herself in the past that interviews make her very uneasy and she doesn't like doing them.

[GinAndT0nic]

That's awful flow. she can't have been more than 13 or 14 at the time.

[GinAndT0nic]

Just read that. Fair play to her for not being what she is expected to be. Polite, charming, pretyy, blah blah blah. We have millions of people who can be all of that. I admire her, for what she says and her bravery saying it in the first place.

[flow4]

She was 14-15 Gin. :( She has said some more in an interview this weekend - claig posted some links above.

She was abused as a child, then imprisoned and abused in a Magdalene Laundry as a child/teenager. Then developed mental health problems which she has often said she does not like to be be interviewed about - and who would?

Then Mair asks her "Are you trying to convince me or yourself?" when she's says she's OK, on the very weekend the news about the Laundries breaks.

And she 'needs a slap' for being (really only very slightly) touchy and (really very justifiably) pissed off at him?!

[andubelievedthat]

At least she tells it like she feels it ! tough u and others did not get it /understand it ,what did you want >simpering ,eyelash fluttering kylie shit ? and ,why ,as a.n.other poster opinioned , "if someone asks a question you should answer " >stuff that !>sleepwalking towards old age with a bland past >is not an ambition any woman should have ,yes, she may offend some , but then she really is the real deal/is talented/opinionated> how fucking different in an overbland society where women are ,as usual ,expected to "fall into line!

[SigmundFraude]

I actually said that women can be 'strong' and experience difficulties in life without the need to behave like a petulant child. Therefore I am standing up for women who are strong and behave in a civilized manner.

Can you see the irony in your personal attack on me, a woman. Plenty of others said worse (slap, anyone?), yet you are singling me out.

Reported.

[Pipachi]

The interviewer started with the rudeness. She looked very vulnerable in the beginning (with her big eyes and badly placed tattoo). I don't think she is a strong woman.

Outspoken - yes.

[MechanicalTheatre]

I'm not getting into a bunfight with you SF . But to suggest that one is not allowed to "attack" someone because they are a woman is ridiculous.

[flow4]

Are you talking to me, Sigmund? Cos I wasn't actually responding to you - I hadn't in fact read your post calling O'Connor a 'petulant child' at that point... I was talking/replying to Gin and the OP. Nothing personal! :)

[Pipachi]

flow4 I haven't read you post yet. I didn't know that.

[flow4]

I do think it takes a fair bit of strength Pip, to survive childhood abuse, imprisonment at age 14-15, mental illness, and rude interviewers :)

[flow4]

Oops, cross posted with you Pip! :)

[SigmundFraude]

No, flow, I was talking to MechanicalTheatre

[wordfactory]

Oh God, here we go...

How dare a woman be anything less than delightful. Especially a middle aged woman!!!

This is a woman who suffered horrendous brutality as a chld, tried to speak out about it and was promptly villified by the press and the establishment. Since then she has suffered MH problems.

But hey ho, let's all be terribly upset when she doen't provide an identi-kit blah blah interview.

[flow4]

Yes, Sig, I realise that now! These bloomin' fast-moving threads are hard to keep track of, eh?! :)

[DoctorAnge]

He was horrible to her!

I think she was caught off guard at being spoken to like that. Why should she have to take that crap!

[MechanicalTheatre]

I totally agree wordfactory

We like our victims dignified and she is arsey. He was a patronising arse to her.

[Theicingontop]

Just seen the interview. She seemed really rather nervous at the beginning, and the interviewer did nothing to put her at ease. Kind of stuffed up a bit I think, because she instantly went on the defensive. Which, I would too I reckon.

[DoctorAnge]

[dinkydoodah]

Love Sinead! He was a twit

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

wordfactory

yes, that's what I think

She wasn't petulant. She was genuinely upset. She's an emotional person and his crassness put her on the defensive right before she was about to sing.

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

And do you know what strikes me? Women (not men) were put into institutions - horrible ones where they were further abused for not being polite or biddable enough. And gits like Jeremy Clarkson are tweeting that she seems like a bit of a loony.

[MechanicalTheatre]

Yes Jamie that fucks me off IMMENSELY.

When you see how many women were put in those places for being pregnant - I don't see any blokes being locked up for getting the women pregnant.

Fucking bastards if they think they then have any right to say anything about her.

[Sunnywithshowers]

If I'd been what she's been through I'd be fucking angry.

And would an interviewer try the type of bollocks with a man who'd been mentally ill? The sainted Stephen Fry, for example?

It seems to be that victims are victimised all other again because if they try to express their feelings (which probably include anger) they are told off because it's unfeminine. They have a right to be angry.