I saw on the Globe and Mail site a great story about the backlash facing Nadya Suleman, who gained quick fame by carrying octuplets to term, then infamy, when it was revealed she was a single mom with (now) 14 kids, and no job.
What backlash?
Consider this rap rhyme quoted in the story: “pops ‘em out like a toaster/needs a pacifier holster” for an example. Consider also the plight of Suleman’s one-time publicist, who quit after receiving death threats:
“Not in my experience have I ever seen anything like it. And I would add that I was involved in public relations for Three Mile Island.”
But although the G&M story allegedly tries to examine the origins of said backlash, it ultimately feels like a pretty shallow hack at it. Still, they’ve done a great job in summing up the sheer negativity that people have about her, even if they haven’t plumbed the depths of why those feelings exist.
Grant Hamilton
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I still maintain that a big part of the backlash against her (apart from the creepy obsessiveness of it all) is the recession now ravaging the continent.
At a time when people are losing their homes, jobs, and savings they don’t want to have some weirdo saddling them with the bill for her and her FOURTEEN kids.
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