London Culture

So I'm back from London where I spent 3 months looking at how feminism functions in Britain. As I tweak my paper for another assignment I'll be putting bits on here for funsies.
Starting with Jordan.

Jordan, a glamour model/singer/actress/reality star is an idol of many young girls and women. When attempting to research her importance to pop culture I found a site called UKJordan.com. Turns out it is a porn site and upon entering the site I was bombarded with pop ups for more porn. Apparently that is her significance to British pop culture.

Her real name is Katie Price, she took on the pseudonym Jordan while working as a model for Page Three and then kept it for other modeling jobs. Despite this she is worshiped in this country, “Grown women idolise her (80% of her 10,000-strong online fan club is female); young girls want to be like her (63% of teenage girls would rather become a topless model than a doctor)” (Lewis). Though many people paint a grim picture of a world that admires such an over sexualized figure, there are people who would consider her a feminist hero. We could say this is a product of a society that calls women empowered for fulfilling male fantasy, but further research suggests this is not entirely true. Last year she went on record saying she was raped by a famous celebrity. She never gave up the name to the Red Tops but in her interviews she admitted to having been raped as a child. In an interview with The Sun she said, “I urge any woman who has been affected by rape and needs help to talk to somebody they trust about it" (Lee). I suspect there is more to her than Page Three, but to be fair it is difficult to see past.

I've also become obsessed Hugh Laurie, who had a comedy show with Stephen Fry in UK. He sang this song called Little Girl and I could swear it's about Ms. Price.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raRQilFcriw

Though even if it isn't, it's still really funny and worth a look!