Judging children by their names

[DJKillaQueen]

I think there is definitely evidence to suggest that 'gingerism' is a bit more than harmless bullying.

[DaveR]

This was the conclusion of the NS piece:

"But it's surely wrong that the law accords treatment to members of some statutorily-defined minorities and ignores others whose problems may well be experienced in precisely the same way. It's the very definition of privilege. It sends out a message that some forms of irrational prejudice are more acceptable than others, that an unprovoked attack one someone is somehow worse if it's motivated by the colour of their skin, or by their perceived sexuality, than by the colour of their hair or their weight. In truth, there is an infinite number of possible hate crimes. If the concept of has any meaning, it should apply irrespective of the personal characteristic, innate or adopted, cultural or sartorial, that inspires the hate."

So it's wrong that hate crimes are defined in a limited way, and the concept should apply across the board, but there are an infinaite number of possible......

I'm essentially sympathetic to the argument, but no practical good will come of adding gingers, fat people, glasses wearers, Goths oir anybody else to the Equality Act or any other bit of legislation. There are sensible historical reasons for offering specific protection against discrimination on the grounds of race, gender and sexuality, and there are other laws to protect everybody else from assault, harassment etc.

Re the original topic of the thread, I'm afraid my overwhelming reaction was that I can't believe anybody actually watches this kind of cr@p. I also had to google Katie whoever because I have no idea who she is. Tbh, I had no idea who Holly Willoughby was either.

Re kids names, its not exactly news that prejudice based around social class exists, nor that kid's names are widely seen as an indicator of class. It's also unfortunately not news that there is a never-ending supply of stupid people who are willing (nay desperate) to go on TV and try and make some kind of name for themselves by spouting witless rubbish.

[El Pibe]

"I had no idea who Holly Willoughby was either"

La Piba watches The Voice.

Having seen the3 final certain of Holly Willoughbie's attributes are rather seared into my minds eye, although I was reminded of one of my childhood heroes