Bindi Irwin

[WildernessMirror]

As entertainment reporter Peter Ford said on radio the other day, at some point after she’s well and truly addicted to the publicity she isn’t going to rate or sell magazines anymore. Obviously she’s not worldly enough to know this, but everyone else in her team must.

Managing the rejection to come at a delicate age may be as tough a dealing with her loss (which she may not have done yet, so they may hit at the same time).

 

[fearlessone77]

How long before she can legally do a spread for Hustler to fund her meth addiction?

2 weeks , Tops.

 

[Bombers 2003]

Can't stand her. One of two people where I have to flick the channel immediately. Cathy Freeman is the other.

I cant stand Richard Wilkins and yet he cotinually pops up everywhere lately.I wish eddie would hurry up and bone him like he tried to do to Jessica Rowe,who actually seems to becoming better looking each time i see her in the media.

 

[Bombers 2003]

I hate her.

LU
She's 8 yrs old and she's forced into the media spotlight by who her father was.I was never a great fan of Steve Irwin,he could be very annoying,but isnt the media to blame for Bindi's prominence?

 

[Bombers_Forever]

Agree- the media is to blame for the majority of it

 

[Traffic Light]

LU
She's 8 yrs old and she's forced into the media spotlight by who her father was.I was never a great fan of Steve Irwin,he could be very annoying,but isnt the media to blame for Bindi's prominence?

Exactly.

The media has no remorse or ethics. As long as they get a rating the after effect isn't even considered in the equation. It may seem nice and sentimental on face value, but it's ruining the poor girls life and has given her a stigma she never asked for or deserved.

 

[CharlieG]

what a load of bollocks.

Plenty of kids lose their father, I don't see you or anyone else lamenting them, because they aren't "famous".

I expressed my sadness at the passing of Steve Irwin when it happened... other than that, I'm not sure where this came from? Where did I ever suggest that she should be treated differently because she has a public profile?

And I'm supposed to not exhibit "tall poppy syndrome" about her for the very reason she's famous?

No, because she's eight years old. If you 'hate' an eight year old child for wanting to be like her dad, then you're the one with problems. Not her.

The Irwins are dicks. Always have been, always will be.

That's your opinion.

Bindi is an idiot, the way she carries on.

Again, she's eight years old.

Her mother even more so for exploiting her husbands death.

I'm reasonably confident that she would swap the family's higher public profile since September to have her husband back.

That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it.

Your opinion revolves around 'hate' for an eight year old. Stick with it, by all means... if it makes you feel good about yourself.

 

[rick James]

She might be 8, but she's sickeningly sweet, pre-programmed and all around bad for Australia. We should put her out to pasture methinks.

 

[stickman11]

The first half of my post was aimed only at certain people, who should be able to work out who they are.

As for my feelings of righteousness - my feelings of self-worth aren't dependent on big-noting myself online. I know that must be hard for you to understand.

Mmme. I wouldn't say it is the Tall Poppy Syndrome CharlieG. I mean, I guess most feel the same way, when she tries so hard, it is purely embarrassing. She is trying to copy her father in her delivery style and it isn't natural. Just painful.

If it wan't for the media and her fathers antics, nobody would care.

Cheese someone.

 

[Black Panther]

She looks like a little monkey

 

[- PC -]

Bindi $$$$$>>>>> Princess Diana

 

[stickman11]

She looks like a little monkey

Crikey! You're right.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

I expressed my sadness at the passing of Steve Irwin when it happened... other than that, I'm not sure where this came from? Where did I ever suggest that she should be treated differently because she has a public profile?



No, because she's eight years old. If you 'hate' an eight year old child for wanting to be like her dad, then you're the one with problems. Not her.



That's your opinion.



Again, she's eight years old.



I'm reasonably confident that she would swap the family's higher public profile since September to have her husband back.



Your opinion revolves around 'hate' for an eight year old. Stick with it, by all means... if it makes you feel good about yourself.

I have every right to hate a public persona. It doesn't matter a lick of ******** whether she's an 8 year old child. Guess what? I hated Urkel too. You gonna crucify me for that?

Your use of the word "reasonably" when talking about the family profile is highly telling. Even you aren't totally sure of the lengths this family will go to for publicity. Having said that, I don't for a moment think they'd "choose" this result, but what's happening now is the cumulative build-up of the way they've lived their lives.

She's an out and out attention whore. Just like her late dad. Just like her mum. You put yourself in the public discourse, you got to expect to get negative reactions.

I'm not going to pussyfoot around it because the poor dear lost her daddy. Lots of kids go through far worse, and no-one ever hears about it, because their family aren't actively involved in a voracious publicity machine.

Tall Poppy Syndrome directed at an eight year old. Classy.

You think just because she's 8 she's exempt from critical or negative feedback? Get off your high horse

As for people saying "blame teh media", are you stupid? That family has consistantly suckled at the media teat and make a very comfortable living off it. Just like any celebrities. It ain't straight up the media's fault, that's just so predictable. I don't believe the media arranged her concert tour with The Wiggles now, did they?

Finally, I challenge anyone to look at this picture and not hate her too:

*spew*

 

[CharlieG]

First of all 'reasonably' should not be taken to indicate doubt. I just tend to understate things as I write them. So you can delete that particular cheap point from the chalkboard.

Bindi Irwin is a child. If you want to 'hate' her for being allowed in front of the cameras and trying to imitate her dad, be my guest. It's ********ing pathetic, though, and says more about you than it does the Irwins.

 

[stickman11]

I have every right to hate a public persona. It doesn't matter a lick of ******** whether she's an 8 year old child. Guess what? I hated Urkel too. You gonna crucify me for that?

Your use of the word "reasonably" when talking about the family profile is highly telling. Even you aren't totally sure of the lengths this family will go to for publicity. Having said that, I don't for a moment think they'd "choose" this result, but what's happening now is the cumulative build-up of the way they've lived their lives.

She's an out and out attention whore. Just like her late dad. Just like her mum. You put yourself in the public discourse, you got to expect to get negative reactions.

I'm not going to pussyfoot around it because the poor dear lost her daddy. Lots of kids go through far worse, and no-one ever hears about it, because their family aren't actively involved in a voracious publicity machine.



You think just because she's 8 she's exempt from critical or negative feedback? Get off your high horse

As for people saying "blame teh media", are you stupid? That family has consistantly suckled at the media teat and make a very comfortable living off it. Just like any celebrities. It ain't straight up the media's fault, that's just so predictable. I don't believe the media arranged her concert tour with The Wiggles now, did they?

Finally, I challenge anyone to look at this picture and not hate her too:

*spew*

god, she's uglier than her father.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

First of all 'reasonably' should not be taken to indicate doubt. I just tend to understate things as I write them. So you can delete that particular cheap point from the chalkboard.

Bindi Irwin is a child. If you want to 'hate' her for being allowed in front of the cameras and trying to imitate her dad, be my guest. It's ********ing pathetic, though, and says more about you than it does the Irwins.

Ah so any child in the public eye must be loved unconditianally eh Charles, by the very nature of their childhood? That's the natural extrapolation of your argument. Do you agree with that statement?

Like I said before, get off your high-horse. Even you are continually putting the word hate in quotation marks. That means you're intelligent enough to know that hate is a different concept when referring to public personas as to real people. I think it's a fair assumption to make that I haven't actually met Bindi, read her a story, or heard about her day at school (or on stage with the Wiggles, whatever).

I hated Steve Irwin too. He was a buffoon. Do you think that's unreasonable? I hate the Osbourne children too. Is that ********ing pathetic?

Or are you maybe going off all half-cocked without a shred of logic behind your argument?

 

[viccles]

I don't understand how you can 'hate' her. For Gods sake she is a puppet being manipulated by the media. Her fifteen minutes of fame will end eventually. To say all those nasty comments about her that she is ugly etc is really low

 

[Lance Uppercut]

I don't understand how you can 'hate' her. For Gods sake she is a puppet being manipulated by the media

so the Irwin's and Bindi herself have absolutely no choice about any of this? It's all the fault of the nasty media?

 

[stickman11]

I don't understand how you can 'hate' her. For Gods sake she is a puppet being manipulated by the media. Her fifteen minutes of fame will end eventually. To say all those nasty comments about her that she is ugly etc is really low

But she isn't she. Ugly.

 

[viccles]

so the Irwin's and Bindi herself have absolutely no choice about any of this? It's all the fault of the nasty media?

I would say her mother and management is more to blame than anything. She is an 8 year old child

 

[Lance Uppercut]

I would say her mother and management is more to blame than anything.

I would strongly agree.

She is an 8 year old child

It has absolutely no bearing what age she is. Are we obliged to love a media personality simply because they are young? Is it Unaustralian not to? I'm confused.

Like I said to Charlie, I hate the Osbourne kids too. Am I not allowed to have these feelings, because they weren't adults when that stupid show was on? I think that's an apt comparison. Both families suckling at the celebrity teat, and doing very well out of it thankyou very much! For gods sake, I don't have to like them. In fact, I'm well within my rights to hate them.

I wouldn't have thought you would have to explicitly say, everytime you bag a public figure, that you are bagging their persona, and not them as a person. But THEY are the one's putting themselves in the limelight. So I have every right to hate them.

So she's an eight year old child. Cry me a ferking river.

I hate this:

Oh yes I do.

 

[Catfish Jake]

Was in K-Mart the other day. She's released a children's fitness DVD. WTF?

 

[jimmy35]

Did you buy it CJ ?

 

[Catfish Jake]

Did you buy it CJ ?

Nah, it was only rated G.

 

[CharlieG]

Ah so any child in the public eye must be loved unconditianally eh Charles, by the very nature of their childhood? That's the natural extrapolation of your argument. Do you agree with that statement?

No, it isn't.

I don't give a rat's arse if you don't watch anything she's on. That's your choice. To be honest, I haven't been paying much attention either. Didn't watch the public memorial, didn't watch any of the trashy shows put on and have seen perhaps one interview with Bindi Irwin since her father died.

I just find it disturbing that grown adults are honouring the time-honoured Aussie tradition of Tall Poppy Syndrome towards an eight year old.

Like I said before, get off your high-horse. Even you are continually putting the word hate in quotation marks. That means you're intelligent enough to know that hate is a different concept when referring to public personas as to real people. I think it's a fair assumption to make that I haven't actually met Bindi, read her a story, or heard about her day at school (or on stage with the Wiggles, whatever).

I've said 'hate' because I struggle to believe that you could hate a child, regardless of whether she's a public figure or not.

I hated Steve Irwin too. He was a buffoon. Do you think that's unreasonable? I hate the Osbourne children too. Is that ********ing pathetic?

At least they've gotten through primary school.

Or are you maybe going off all half-cocked without a shred of logic behind your argument?

Mate, you're the one that's put words in my mouth throughout this thread. You've suggested that I am criticising you because her dad died (which I never said), that you're obligated to love her because she's eight years old (which I never said) and that I think she's exempt from negative feedback because she's eight years old (which I never said).

You're free to say she's annoying or whatever. However if you can't see why saying that youfeel justified in hating an eight year old for 'putting herself out there' - when you're surely smart enough to know that she's not in control of her own 'career' (such as it is) is disturbing, then I repeat. That says more about you than Bindi Irwin.

My reading of her prominence since her father's death is that it's a mix of media exploitation, her family taking the easy way out and letting a child bear the brunt of that media exploitation (which I don't agree with) and Bindi herself wanting to do it because it's what she used to do with her dad. I'm not particularly interested in what she's been doing these past three months, but I don't feel the need to vent about her online, either.