Geldof on marriage - Grrr!

[Sheila]

Anyone see this appallingly unbalanced programme last night? Bob's solution to the current breakdown in marriage is:

1)Women (who initiate 70% of divorces) should learn to put up with men's emotional illiteracy.
2)Divorce should be made more difficult.
3) Single parents should be made less well off (hah!)

Clearly Bob's still smarting from being thrown over for Michael Hutchence ("Taj Mahal of crotches" - that must've hurt).

As for Germaine Greer's contribution - how that woman can call herself a feminist any more is beyond me!

Sorry for the rant but I'm still fuming that someone with such ill-thought out views is given air time. I also worry that his views might influence policy-makers. As if reducing benefits to low income families (single parent or not) is going to decrease the divorce rate!

I caught 5 mins of this prg and it did just seem to be BG venting his still bitter spleen !

Glad I missed it.

Arse.

Think he is a bitter little tosser and DP hates his guts - he nearly refused to get on the same plane as him on the way back from Dublin!!

He is doing one on fathers tonight and so want to watch that - lets see what he says about a father who leaves his children with a mother who takes class A drugs lots and lots and leaves them about the house eh!!

Can't say I agree with his ideas at all, but I suspect that Bob Geldof couldn't have given a stuff about what that evil bastard Michael Hutchence had in his trousers, but was justifiable traumatised by very nearly losing his beloved kids because his wife ran off with a junkie.

agree agree agree agree
Bob Geldof = pub bore

She was pretty much a fucked up Junkie too Aloha - when they found her there were drugs stashed all around the house - not just light ones but bad things that could have killed those kids and the little on ewas only tiny and to be dabbling in that stuff to the degree that you could die is just nuts when you have kids!!

(missed the programme but..)
and paula yates had some odd views too: slagged off mums who worked while at home with her brood, then was never off the telly for years. seems like if you're famous you get carte blanche for airing your views on primetime tv. that's why i don't feel sorry re: the posh spice tv prog which slagged her off, she's had plenty of editorial control over other programmes aired about her beautiful lifestyle. and if bob's so keen on marriage, why doesn't he get married to his girlfriend jeanne?

It really p*ssed me off that such a load of ill thought out shallow nonsense was presented as serious fact. Apparently we are all shallow consumerist harpies who ditch men cos we have 'choices'. Bring back the old days where we had no choices and had to stay with grumpy old twats like geldoff or worse.

I've taped this - is it controversial then? (I like a bit of controversy ) I liked him on Grumpy Old Men!

Well maybe that comment was a bit below the belt (tee hee)

I think he's very good-looking!

Article from Guardian you may find interesting

I phoned my sister and made hertalk to me until 10pm so that I wouldn't be tempted to watch the crap he was spouting! So many holes in his points in the couple of minutes I saw before phoning my sister that I hadto stop watching or risk grinding my teeth to a powder!

Twinkie, yes I know, and Hutchence introduced her to that lifestyle. I would be as angry as Geldof about my kids being taken away from me and given to a couple who were off their heads on heroin most of the time. I think his anger and bitterness is totally justified, and yet he still found it possible to raise their (ie Hutchence and Yates') daughter with no apparent bitterness or rancour.
This doesn't mean I agree with all of his views on the programme however (and found it so dull, frankly, that I think I missed most of them).
Do wonder why he won't marry Jeanne if marriage is so wonderful though! If that's the case, of course.

isn't it lovely batters, when you know you are right?

She never used to be like that. Dh used to come into contact her and she didn't even drink let alone touch drugs. All that came with Hutchence I believe.

Especially, when everyone else is wrong!!

As this was the first time I saw Bob Geldof on Tv(I'm American) and as somone who is in a troubled marriage, I actually really enjoyed the show and agreed with a lot of what was said. I also thought that there was a dialog between the different people who were talked to, "not this should be law" but more of how did we get to this point of so many divorces, how can people who once loved one another grow to hate and how does that hate take over even when there are children involved. I honestl believed the point that a child is better off with 2 parents, however those two parents need to respect on another or else it will be just as bad(if not worse) then divorce. I am looking forward to this evenings show as I think he will come across a lot better the Father's 4 Justice guys!!!

I met Paula Yates a couple of times many moons ago. She didn't drink or smoke, was the most lovely, kind woman who clearly doted on her children. It affected me deeply when she ended up addicted to heroin for lots of personal reasons and I still get very upset thinking of how her life ended .

I have to agree too august24 - I thought the programme raised some interesting points some of which I agree with. Plus he is very gorgeous - same thing happened to me Batters when I saw him once - I ran to the phonebox to tell my sister straight away!

Actually, we don't know how he feels about Michael Hutchence's daughter. He may be very bitter for all we know, but he wouldn't tell us (or her) about it if he was. (He probably wouldn't choose to bring her up in his household if he was though.)

I'm sure Bob Geldof is entirely justified in his bewilderment and fury about the way he was treated by the courts (especially as he was the innocent party in the divorce) but what I object to is the way he universalises his experience and then suggests solutions which for him and other rockstars make perfect sense, but for us lesser mortals are just not practical.

Me too Enid.