EMMERDALE (7pm and 8pm ITV) LOCKING Belle (pictured) in a barn to give her a taste of being locked up didn't seem to change Belle's mind, so perhaps Cain will have more luck tonight as he tries to
guilt-trip her into not pleading guilty to murder.
A Palestinian dilemma and
guilt-trip on the worn subject of identity-- but surely identifiable with many a Palestinian or second generationer whose roots lie elsewhere:
Yep,
guilt-trip city as the Beeb embarks on its annual charidee bonanza and those fabulous fundraising celebs pat themselves on the back for being so astonishingly selfless.
Do they really think that
guilt-trip posters or even new laws will stop millions of years of evolution?
Rather than spending all of our energy trying to
guilt-trip the media into representing us more diversely, it's time we put our passion and our dollars behind the nuanced representations of gay men that have already been written.
In the chapter, "Why am I the One Doing This?" for example, she goes off on the ever-increasing number of companies that expect their customers to function as unpaid staff, "even using
guilt-trip lines inch as, 'Please have your account details ready, as this will help speed up the process, so that we can deal with more inquiries.' The message here is that, yes, you may be waiting for twenty minutes while we make money from your call, but don't waste our time when you eventually get through because this would be rude and inconsiderate to others.
Surfacing at a time when manifestos are out of style and mass market fiction featuring the antics of the working morn, such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, is decidedly in, The Mommy Myth is a wise-cracking indictment of what the authors call "the new momism": a set of ideals that daily assault and
guilt-trip women by tacitly insisting that, to be fulfilled, they must have children and be their primary caretakers.
Masquerading as
guilt-trip patriotism, these ads aren't meant to curb drug use; they are strategic propaganda meant to influence how Americans view drug users.
We nag, criticize, command, lecture and
guilt-trip. We may even punish ourselves by withholding our own self-approval or denying ourselves pleasures (lunches with friends, evenings out, vacations).
