13 August 2008

Faking it

This literally makes me see red.

I can live with (or without) the fake fireworks and the fake cleanliness. But this?

How could they do that to a child? How? Start early. Start telling them from now that they are “ugly”. No age is too early to start the stereotyping. I feel sick.

What else will they fake next?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fake gold medals. Cheap tin painted with gilt, perhaps.

Pollux aka Paps said...

U never know, Shyam, u never know...they might do just that.

Anonymous said...

what is fake cleanliness? :) Either you try to be clean and orderly or you don't. Or you're somewhere in the grey, which is where most of us are.
And as for the article.. disgusting.. now looks are important for kids too? How about talent.. and to me all kids are beautiful.. each and everyone, period. Can you imagine how she must have to be dropped like that.. paavam, enna inferiority complex varum.. is this the way to treat a child and kill her self confidence? I am as enraged as you are.
Vidya

Pollux aka Paps said...

Vid: fake cleanliness = China desperately cleaning up Beijing's streets and smog, just so the city is nice and pretty for the Olympics.
Yes, that is what made me so angry. Using that kid's voice, but saying you don't look good enuff for your face to be shown all aroudn the world on telly. At least, the director was brave enuff to come out with the truth.

umm oviya said...

i swear! was bloody livid. are they crazy or what? and communism is about equality?

Pollux aka Paps said...

V: Ha ha, if you gave the communists that definition, they would probably stare blankly at you. It's Orwell all over again: some animals are more equal than others.
But never mind all that. What they did was awful even from a human perspective, even before digging deeper.