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Bella Hadid's period comments are 'out of touch', says reader
I was white with rage at the article where supermodel Bella Hadid told Vogue, ‘You’re shooting for Victoria’s Secret on your period with endo [endometriosis]. That should be illegal’ (Metro, Wed).
Well, she is a model and a freelancer and probably gets £250,000 for the session. Nobody else has forced her to do it. Most other females do not have this choice.
She is also totally out of touch with female humanity in stating we should ban women working on the week of their period. Who will do their work during that week? Older, post-menopausal females and male colleagues?
That is going to be a great way to guarantee fertile females will not be selected for jobs if that ban was applied.
While I agree that women with severe endometriosis suffer, there are therapies available. The average woman does not need to be medicalised or considered unclean or unhealthy during this time.
Most women, believe it or not, can fully function as worker, woman, wife, girlfriend, leader, colleague, friend, mother, carer etc.
Stick to the modelling, Bella, in which impossible visions are put in front of impressionable women foolish enough to think it is all real.
Professor Mary N Sheppard, Head of Cardiovascular Pathology, City St George’s University of London
Cannes was right to say no to near-naked red carpet looks
I applaud Cannes Film Festival authorities for their ban on nudity on the red carpet (Metro, Wed).
The dress of some A-lister women is getting progressively worse. Quite frankly, they are becoming pornographic.
Is it any wonder teenage boys see such ill-clad stars and demand their girlfriends upload revealing pictures of themselves?
And the photo from Vogue of Bella Hadid in chain-mail garments that show her nipples is equally outrageous. P Munden, Croydon
Gaza needs more than pity – it needs courage and action
Julie Partridge (MetroTalk, Tue) asks why isn’t there a ‘coalition of the willing’ to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza as there is calling for an end to Russian aggression in Ukraine?
The answer is simple. The latter is based on necessary self-interest – namely, the security of Europe.
The former, however, requires a moral courage that has been sapped away by the loss of moral leadership from the US, starting with the previous administration.
There’s also an element of dehumanisation. The lives of some people don’t seem to matter if we can sufficiently ‘other’ them.
So seeing images from a comfortable distance of bedraggled women and children desperately jostling for food and water to survive in Gaza, against a backdrop of devastation, perhaps doesn’t prick the conscience of those in authority as much as it should. Peter, London
Bradley Wiggins’ son talks to Lance? Sure he does
Cyclist Bradley Wiggins said in an interview, ‘My son speaks to Lance a lot’ (Metro, Wed). I wonder, does he also speak to King Arthur and Guinevere?Alfie Mullin, West London
Yet another doctor joke to add to the pile
To add to your doctor jokes. What is the difference between God and a cardiac consultant? God doesn’t think he’s a cardiac consultant. Martin, Oldbury
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