ArriettyJones
I think it was ill-advised, badly timed and did them no favours. Not their worst PR clanger by a long way but not great
Their timing was dictated by the Telegraph.
How did its content do them no favours?
How was it ill-advised, content wise or timing wise, given the Telegraph intervention?
"Not sure what you are objecting to about the Tom Bradby bit either."
I don’t know where to start. Complete car crash. Made them look awful. Both of them sounded whiny and spoilt against a backdrop of genuinely deprived and struggling people whose difficulties and resilience they were supposed to be highlighting. HIV sufferers and rape survivors and goodness knows what other groups in South Africa FGS. So the two multi millionaires have a little dance with these underprivileged women and visit a project or two then start telling us how hard THEY have it.
You are assuming that mental health problems or the hurt and serious effects of racism don't affect the well off.
You are dehumanising them both if that is so. Everyone's problem with mental health and racism is a serious problem.
In speaking about the issues they face, they speak for people who will never have a microphone placed in front of them.
Presumably you recall Barack and Michelle Obama, and the comments directed at them and in particular at Michelle ('ape in heels')?
Maybe you think they should have shrugged everything off?
Michelle Obama tells of being wounded by racism as first lady
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/27/michelle-obama-wounded-racism-first-lady
Pretending experiences didn’t hurt would let perpetrators off hook, says Obama as she praises women’s strength
The personal is political. This doesn't just apply to sexism.
Your 'hands in the air', 'what's the point' approach just leaves the field open to the shameless and the hate-filled. Your idea that complaints should be lodged with the PCC misses the point that public and prominent calling out of racism by those fortunate enough to have a microphone in front of them involves speaking up on behalf of those whose voices will never be heard, and establishes the perception that decency still exists.
People who have access to the media and direct experience of the issues H&M spoke about have a duty to use that access.
The quibble about timing is silly - and again dehumanising, and your perception of their remarks (whiny, etc) along with your description of their trip to SA is extremely disparaging. It's clear you are motivated by personal animosity toward both of them.
They could have done a sit down with him on another occasion back in London and planned it properly, and avoided that juxtaposition of their problems and serious (poverty, illness, sexual violence) problems
Are you implying that 'serious' problems only exist elsewhere? Because there is poverty, illness, and sexual violence aplenty in London.
I have a sneaking suspicion that an interview conducted in Frogmore Cottage in which they spoke of MH issues and racism would be scoffed at too.