Madeleine McCann: Fat Portuguese Wives To Blame For Kate McCann
PAULO Reis writes on Madeleine McCann:
According to Bel Mooney, from the Daily Mail, “Portuguese police suspected” of Kate McCann, since the beginning, because “their wives were telling them she looked too controlled, did not weep enough.”
The “cultural difference” between Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, where “young mothers quickly come to look like overblown roses, their child-bearing settling comfortably around their hips” explains why “it’s hard not to imagine Portuguese women murmuring to their husbands that this British woman is - yes - much too skinny.”
So, the wives of Portuguese detectives “would be instinctively prejudiced against Kate for not looking like them, as well as because her self-control was alien to a culture which traditionally hangs its emotions out like washing on lines”, writes Bel Mooney.
And a question that makes sense, for the Daily Mail columnist, is if the “Portuguese attitude insidiously affect the views of the wider world, tapping into innate expectation of how mothers are ’supposed’ to be…”
Source: Paulo
Posted: 18th, October 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (75) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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December 25th, 2007 at 3:27 am
what a bunch of rubbish! I guess xenophobia and ignorance go along way togheter.
and since when English women are models of beauty? I have never personally lived in a country where is so common to see girls under 18 wearing sizes 12\14.
… perhaps less bacon and more olive oil…
November 1st, 2007 at 1:44 pm
The portuguese have blonde brains.
Passport usually says.
Hair Brown
Eyes Brown
Hight Short
Weight mothers plump
single woman curvacious
October 19th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
The priest meant that he was decieved because McCanns didnt mention they underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) to get their children, which is forbidden by catholicism and thought as going against god. That is what he meant saying they decieved him. I read it in an article somewhere on the web, I cant remember where.
October 19th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Anorak! Anorak!
Well, come all the british to Portugal to see the portuguese and young girls .
Yes. A beautiful people,some blonds with blue or green,brown eyes.
If you see,you believe, like S. Tomé.
October 19th, 2007 at 1:53 am
Sorry Ian,
I should have known. Forgot what website we’re on!
October 19th, 2007 at 1:29 am
The article says : [So, the wives of Portuguese detectives “would be instinctively prejudiced against Kate..." ]
It’s a poorly written article and not thought out well. In the above quote the use of “instinctive” is wrong. The author really means the opposite! –that supposedly the cops DID NOT instinctively know anything, and needed to be instructed by their wives.
The whole idea is stupid, but what the hell, it made for a splashy article.
The reason people determined the guilt of the McCanns is simple. The McCanns not only were guilty of gross neglect, they were also guilty of an atrocious attempt to deny and cover up that guilt, rather than making a sincere admission. It’s all there in the initial interviews, for everyone to see. Both Kate & Gerry say they did nothing wrong.
Most people were aghast at that, and assume that anyone with such low morality would very likely deny and cover up other things as well –such as the death of their daughter. Nothing at all to do with fat or skinny, pretty or ugly.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Macey
I’m sure the McCanns don’t need you to tell them that they will suffer for the rest of their lives. They will have been doing that since 10 p.m. on 3 May. As for punishing them, I think they are punishing themselves. Perhaps if all the media hype would now take the focus off the parents and concentrate on looking for Madeleine something might be achieved. I am sure that that is what they wish would happen.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
I think you’re all talking crap. The fact about the McCanns’ being disliked has nothing at all to do with the size of poor little Madeleine’s mother, and everything to do with the fact that anyone who leaves a child of that age alone in a house/apartment (especially in a strange country) has no business being a parent and deserves to be hung out to dry. Personally, I believe they should be prosecuted for that alone and the other children should be put into care. If Gerry & Kate were from underprivileged backgrounds and of lower intelligence it could maybe be forgiven to a degree. However, Kate and Gerry are quite the opposite and for that fact alone should have known better and certainly cared more about their childrens welfare. I have just finished watching the channel four investigative program about Madeleine’s disappearance and I can say now, that I wouldn’t have liked to stay on my own in that apartment and I’m used to living on my own AND Im not four years old AND I don’t have nightmare’s anymore, OR wake two or three times during the night wanting my mummy or a drink of water as did my own daughter many moons ago and many other children like her I’m sure. Whatever, did happen to that poor little mite I’m sorry to have to say that the blame for her disappearance lies entirely on the shoulders of Gerry & Kate and it’s something they will have to live with for the rest of their lives. I just hope that the Tapas and their high flying career based lifestyle was worth it!
October 18th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Mar and Edna,
I don’t know what to say? It seems impossible to me neither of you could see my tongue pressed into cheek? I thought my irony was just as obvious as the reality of blonde blue-eyed thin Portuguese?
October 18th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
62 ian_essex
You’d be surprised to see how many blue-eyed blondes that are Portuguese. Several of my friends are blonde and if by just seeing them, one would think they were of Anglo descent, not Latin.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Much of the genetic stock in Portugal is Celtiberian overlaid by Visigothic. I guess a lot of these people crossed the straits of Gibraltar and produced the blonde berbers that are such a threat to British tabloid identity (nearly as bad as summits in Lisbon that threaten the end of Britain in a few days time!).
I’ve tried to work out the basic dynamic of the weirdly uniform and uncritical British media support for the McCanns since 4 May, and like many others, think the island xenophobia of the obese Brits living on junk food is the main component in the remarkable mass hysteria over this case.
In Latin countries, as Chloe from Spain remarked, maternal obesity has always been a class thing (as it also is even in obese Britain), and the ‘middleclass’ model of slim elegant mothers has been taking over in the now largely urbanized ‘European’ culture that followed Franco and Salazar.
Did Bel Mooney (same Liverpool Irish Catholic stock as Kate - I’ve also mentioned this solidaity thing as a big factor in support for the McCanns) give her own svelte measurements?
Is Julie Burchill a fat slag, and therefore a good parent?
October 18th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Oh Ian,
You walked into that one - Yes, they do have blue eyes. One of my best friends is 100% Portuguese and his eyes are a light bluish-green.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Don’t know about Portugal but I suggest visiting a Spanish primary school when mothers are collecting their children and having a good look.
The fat overgrown rose thing is absolute rubbish. Maybe you get it more in rural areas (as you do anywhere) but most Spanish women seem to get their (slim) figure back a couple of months after they’ve had the baby.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Oh so there really are thin Portuguese women? But surely the blonde hair is a photo retouch?
Blonde Portuguese?! I suppose next you’ll be telling me some have blue eyes?
October 18th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Willo
I missed this about the priest? Is there a reference to him saying he was “deceived”?
“But what made him say he was ‘deceived’.”
Ian
What does this mean, where is the evidence? Any references?
“(yes, despite their ages, the UK education system keeps people as schoolkids for years after they should have ’sorted themselves out’). “
October 18th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Kate McKiller completely lost it!
Those fat foreign garlic stinkin’ Portugese mustached women with large breasts don’t have to look after their children because they look maternal anyway.
Should they be …waif like…almost transparent…kinda like St Bernadetta..small boobed almostlike a girl and dressed girlish they would be crucified if they killed one or two.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:54 am
susannah
morning. Ade got to you too then. I am still not happy about it. Are you?
October 18th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Ade.
Concerned about you last night. Just to put an old bat’s mind at rest. You said that you had got two replies back from O’Brien’s email address. These clearly caused you some worry last night. Can you please just briefly explain what they indicated and why you said that O’Brien had been ’spirited away’.
Am going to post this on the new thread as well in case you have moved over.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:38 am
31 Alan titchman
A few days ago, Bulldump went all peculiar and strange - then disappeared from here - after supposedly discovering Anorak was registered to an addrress that was the same as Branson’s HQ building. He then hurriedly got in contact with Tony Bennett by direct email.
All very curious, because when I checked the registration it was the same as it was when I checked a week or two earlier.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:29 am
new thread, race you there
October 18th, 2007 at 9:22 am
oh shite, now we have found Ade i will have to give that fiver back that some dumb arse gave me for my fighting fund, he was a bit pissed though so he may not remember
October 18th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Will- should have set up a campaign and fund for that lost fiver. Mention that fiver being needed to feed the starving piggies for the sympathy vote, bobs ya uncle!
October 18th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Ade- that paranoia stuff is baaaaad! You certainly had my little mind ticking over last night,better than Judith Sea and her pubic region posts though.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:09 am
51 matty
I once lost a fiver - spent five days solid lookng for it and didn’t sleep properly for a month.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Quiet here this morning think I will go for a jog and get a haircut.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Will- I would need a few sleeping tablets to sleep as well as Kate reportedly sleeps. That, one more, JD worked for me.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:01 am
45 matty
yes, allegedly!
October 18th, 2007 at 9:00 am
44 tristmegistus
trust me I’m a paranutter..
October 18th, 2007 at 8:56 am
OK, so what is the minimum cup size to look maternal?
B, C, EE?
Inquiring minds want to know!
October 18th, 2007 at 8:56 am
42 susannah
just back from checking the drainage in the lower field…
feck, arse, drink, girls
au contraire
more like the normal Ade? - suffered some paranoia yesterday - OK now
I may spend a bit less time here though - it’s beginning to get to me…
As far as tapas 9 go they will be in the Cayman Islands if they have any sense - so they are not close after all
October 18th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Think the post Mods and Admin made the other day about big brother watching us has got people a little on edge, allegedly, I think ,reportedly , supposedly.