i was on the train coming home from work tonight. someone had left a leaflet from a newspaper. it was an ad for an organisation called sightsavers
www.sightsavers.org who are raising money for people in the third world affected by trachoma, a disease that blinds people but which is easily treated with antibiotics. it costs 50p for a course of treatment to stop the disease. i read this leaflet and it made me cry.
i dont think we'd expect people promoting this charity to hide their eyes. would we?
I think that's missing the point. Not that I am suggesting that loosing an eye sight has any lesser impact on the victim than loss due to breast cancer. However, breast cancer has an added impact with it not just being a serious illness, but it can also have an enormous impact on the very identification of being a female and with that as a sexual being, as well. I am not suggesting this is how everybody feels, or should feel, but it's a fact that females have a very tough time due to association of this part of the body with their sexuality and potentially may feel inferior in a way, when affected by this illness. At such delicate and upsetting time in their lives I am sure women wouldn't like to be poked in the eye (pardon the pun) with an overt insensitivity of a low cut dress on an ample cleavage. In my view this would be the equivalent of showing the 50p to the person suffering with trachoma and saying "sorry mate, but got to buy the Daily Mail,instead".
At best of times Julia may appear somewhat threatening to other females exposing her (ahem) 'superior assets' at every opportunity as if to say "He,he...now take that!" with a smirk on her face, a flick of her hair and looking down her nose.
As it has already been pointed out in this thread: although this hasn't been the worst expose of Ms Roberts' cleavage, she could still have been more considerate at this instance, and wore a nice evening gown without having to expose too much and appear insensitive. Alison K wore an evening gown, and even though she is well endowed herself, she didn't reveal too much and didn't stand out.
I like Julia as a presenter, I'll go as far as to say she is my favourite Q presenter. I also think Julia looks very attractive. She is a beautiful woman and I admire the fact that she takes pride in looking after herself. However, I can't share the same enthusiasm about Julia
The Personality: she lacks sensitivity and tact at best and can be downright nasty at worst.
She is an intelligent woman and it must have occurred to her in all these years of doing the
BCC shows that low cut dress is not an appropriate attire for the night. If this has indeed been the case, it seems it has been overridden by the "look at me" reflex that she exhibits far too frequently.
Every thread here on ST forum that mentions Julia, always gets a healthy response from both the unofficial "non fans of JR" club (in the majority) and the equally unofficial "devoted fans of JR" club (this appears to be the minority, for now). What summed it up for me was one of Pinkpussycat's recent comments about Julia, to the effect that she can learn a thing or two about humility. That really is the key word for Julia -
humility. Indeed, if she could manage to appear a bit more humble, she might even improve her ratings here on the ST forum (now, there is a thought, eh Julia??).
