![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Stuart Hall
The Mail had a quote from Stuart Hall's autobiography. Apparently as a young man he turned down the chance to become a professional footballer because the wages wouldn't have been enough "to keep me in tarts and fags".
Tarts, fags- same thing really- two of life's little pleasures.
Is that his view of women? I suppose it must be, because if he saw women as persons I don't think he could have done the things he did and lived to 83 being all jolly and such.
Did he never feel a twinge of self-disgust? Never feel tempted to put a gun-barrel in his mouth?
His youngest victim was 9.
Tarts, fags- same thing really- two of life's little pleasures.
Is that his view of women? I suppose it must be, because if he saw women as persons I don't think he could have done the things he did and lived to 83 being all jolly and such.
Did he never feel a twinge of self-disgust? Never feel tempted to put a gun-barrel in his mouth?
His youngest victim was 9.
no subject
If anything good can be said of his conduct, at least he did finally plead guilty, rather than dragging it through a lengthy court process, which would surely have been traumatic for his victims (again).
no subject
He's quite a piece of work...
no subject
Actually, I suppose I know the answer to that. Some people are born without empathy- not really their fault- there's something wrong with their brains. Others are shaped that way- by a society that encourages the objectification of people.
no subject
Stuart Hall was a smart guy- smarter than the shows he appeared in. He knew he was doing bad things and he did them anyway. In some ways I find him scarier than Savile. Savile was clearly odd- a person whose sexuality was mysterious but plainly not mainstream- but with Hall there were no warning signs. He was a jolly uncle- a bit fruity perhaps but not in "that" way. I don't think I'd have trusted my kids with Savile but I'd have trusted them with him.
no subject
no subject