Sun article on Nicola Benedetti - horribly creepy & incredibly sexist (even for the Sun)

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You know how Nicola Bendetti's an acclaimed classical musician? Blink and you might miss it with possibly the most misogynistic & downright creepy entertainment article I've ever read in the mainstream press:

www.thescottishsun.co.uk%2Fscotsol%2Fhomepage%2Fnews%2Fmattmeets%2F4502198%2FMatt-meets-Scots-violin-queen-Nicola-Benedetti.html&h=sAQFaAnFcAQETkfg9yaKwVbnV1s60CDEHAfK7LrU2SXPdIg&s=1

Yes, it's the Sun, which is practically a comic, but argh! She's not a page 3 model who has on some level 'volunteered' to be painted in a particular way, she's a classical violinist.

Sometimes it seems like the world has moved forward so much (and it has), but then a piece of utter claptrap makes it seem like you've stepped into a time warp.

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Has to be read to be believed.

What. The. Fuck.

Yeah, it's depressing. To be honest wasn't sure I should link in the first place, because it gives them hits.

I get the feeling if people commented or posted negatively about it, they'd be of the view no publicity is bad publicity & of course feminists are no exactly the Sun's core market.

I do wonder though what their readers would think if that was their wife or daughter being written about in such a grubby way.

Good Lord.
Speechless.

What on earth does 'beaky' mean?

What the actual fuck?

Obviously it's awful and offensive but she must have known how the article would pan out when she agreed to an interview with a journalist from the Sun.

Let's hope at least Nicola Benedetti won't give them another interview, Christ on a bike!

Very badly written and trashy. What more would you expect from the Sun?

She sounds like she actually did very well in what was a fucking joke of an interview.

Yamyoid

Hmmmmmmmmm.

Greythorne I believe it means she has a big nose, but I could be wrong.

tribpot Absolutely, though her team are undoubtedly media savvie, so I doubt they'll comment on it.

Yamyoid I'm sure she expected a bit of that, but I can't think she would have expected it to be quite that bad. I mean the comment about the boyfriend - cringe!

Good grief that's awful.

yeh that is creepy.

God that is depressing, sometimes wonder what kind of world my DDs are growing up in. Lovely talented girl why the pressure to "sex" it up? Guess its just the mentality of a certain type of "lad" hopefully not how the majority think.

imagine if a male musician was being 'interviewed' and the female journalist was on about the size of his pecs and his package....
ffs.
mind you, perhaps Ms.Benedetti should choose her publicity better than that.

creepy wonder if he did it because she starts off unimpressed with the media forcing you to be naked? Like he was trying to get one over her?

Queen and Greythorn, I'm not excusing the Sun, just if I was her I wouldn't have gone near that piece of trash with a barge pole.

How fun to take the piss out of her because she won't get her clothes, because clearly she is the unreasonable one. I think they tried to make her sound really stuck up too.

Wankers.

The 'I bet he would' and 'Better get busy making sweet, sweet music, Leonard. Lucky boy...' are revolting. This 'journalist' should be ashamed of himself.

I agree Kaloo

I couldn't bring myself. Isn't she about 16? Creepy.

Oh, FFS that's disgraceful. But then, it's Murdoch press...

She's 25 but even so - revolting.

I don't spend much time in this topic but after DH showed me this article that he saw through Twitter, I had to come on and make sure there was a thread.

How utterly revolting.