Jade Goody’s Cancer Embodies The White Working Class
JADE Goody has “only weeks to live” advertises the Star’s front page.
“Doc gives Jade miracle drug,” says the Sun on its front page.
“My last chance,” says Jade on the Mirror’s front page. “She’ll fight on for sake of the boys.”
Here’s hoping that cancer can be shouted down or glassed in the face or if, say, Jade’s love Jack Tweed steps in, smashed about the person with a golf club. Fight!
Back to the Mirror’s “exclusive” – although why it should think the news of a very ill young woman is a scoop is questionable, not least in the other papers that have seen the same press release.
Says Jade:
“Over the last three or four days my view has been, ‘How long have I got?’ Now I’m thinking, ‘Maybe there’s a chance’.”
Take as long as you like, Jade. The papers aren’t going anywhere. Unless the Arabs and Israelis start shooting or Big Brother starts, the covers are yours. The papers are here to listen and to broadcast your battle with cancer to the nation, tear by tear.
So what are her chances?
Specialist Prof Martin Gore said the drug offered a glimmer of hope and promised her: “You’re a young woman with two young children. We’ll do everything possible for you.” However, other experts warned topotecan may shrink the tumours but is unlikely to cure them.
So says the Mirror’s Will Payne. (Dickens was right – you do grow into your name.)
In the Star, Jade is in a wore state than in any other apper. The paper gives readers a third opinion:
A spokesman for the Star said: “She’s determined to fight it all the way to the end. It’s a big blow. She was hoping to win the battle.”
And do not doubt that Jade is important. Why, Jade is a totem for the white working class:
So are we back to class warfare? …Sociologist Bev Skeggs looks at the way working-class cultures are subject to “diminution”, from the “cultural colonialism” of middle-class educationalists to the public’s treatment of reality TV star Jade Goody and the patronising approach of makeover experts Trinny and Susannah. She asks: “why are the middle classes not held accountable for the levels of symbolic violence that they enact in daily encounters with others?”
Is Jade the embodiment of the white working class’s lot? In south London there be dragons talking in bad English, racially abusing Asians and suffering for our entertainment. And lest you doubt it:
Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona demanded that the Big Brother star deserved “nothing but credit” for talking about the disease.
Can she make it?
She was warned that doctors were now treating her to prolong life rather than save it. Jade will start the new treatment immediately with three weeks of Hycamtin and chemo, a week’s rest, then three more weeks’ treatment. Scans will reveal if the tumours are responding.
What are Jade’s options? What are her chances? The Sun has an idea:
Sarah Harman said: “If you are losing blood and collapsing, your cancer is established.”
She’s a lawyer.
It’s strange it wasn’t diagnosed. Jade’s symptoms should have been investigated. If previous biopsies and smears show the same cancer fingerprint as the current one and her chances of survival fall below 50 per cent, she could be in line for a loss-of-earnings payout. Ms Harman said: “I respect the fact she doesn’t want to sue the NHS, but she has two children to think about.”
The NHS should hand over the cash now to show it cares. Better yet if it can amke teh cheque payable to the Sun’s Jade Goody Foundation, and present it somewhere public, like on the 10 o’clock news…
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February 21st, 2009 at 10:05 am
They founded Cheltenham Ladies College, search on Google, they are very interesting women
February 21st, 2009 at 9:39 am
… “but lack of goodwill from people may well be a just dessert.
Perhaps thats what Katey means?…”
Thanks June, that’s exactly what I meant. I do not believe anyone ‘deserves’ cancer.
Who are Misses Buss and Beale by the way?
February 20th, 2009 at 9:39 am
A convent educated product here, although the Brigidines never did conform much.
I had 3 godmothers, two of whom were products of Miss Buss and Miss Beale’s establishment
February 20th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Well, all things are possible June, but it doesn’t come over that way.
I may be biased; the Jesuits claimed that if they had a boy for seven years they had him for life. I, of couse, went to a GPDST school where 7 years was regarded as another example of male inefficienvy; those whom Miss Buss and Miss Beale inspired bear an ineradicable mind set which stays with us always…
Though at least Norwich High never succumbed to the sunbathing which made the Notre Dame something of a magnet…
February 20th, 2009 at 12:07 am
The really nasty ones outlive everyone else too, and no poor sods left to enjoy their funerals, apart from the grassy ones
But I don’t think illness or good health is a reward or punishment, but lack of goodwill from people may well be a just dessert.
Perhaps thats what Katey means?
February 19th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Actually, most of the time you don’t reap what you sow; some other bugger nips in and grabs it while you’re recovering from all the effort.
On the other hand, if katey is right in believing that terminal cancer is in some way deserved then I’m baffled as to why any number of really unpleasant people live to a ripe old age without a day’s illness in their lives…
February 19th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Reading all this has made me want to comment that JG has been a selfish, foul mouthed, vicious and cruel hearted individual with total disregard to the hurt she has caused to others. You reap what you sow.
February 15th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Jessica
It also reveals that people are not hypocrites, they just dislike Jade Goody.
Not everyone sees her a ‘ frightened,dying young girl’, and until very recently she hasn’t been acting like one either
February 15th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I enjoy the articles on this site but am disgusted by the pompous heartless comments from some here. Making yourself feel superior to a frightened, dying young girl is utterly unneccessary and reveals and awful lot about you. Whatever Jade Goody is she is also human and is also just 27 years old. Shame on you.
February 8th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Lordy, Lordy…..I hate religious bigotry.. I can see you do too….don’t you Blackie?
February 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
All of God’s children have something to offer and they are all equal in the eyes of our Lord!
February 8th, 2009 at 10:39 am
…unless of course..the person happens to be mixed-race ….the you dislike them.. doubly. Is this true Blackie?
February 8th, 2009 at 10:17 am
…you hate them all equally.
February 8th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Which race do you dislike most Blackbob….or do you not discriminate?
February 8th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Jade Goody’s Cancer Embodies The Mixed-Race Under-class.
February 7th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
I know Joe…
February 7th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Joe,
well pour him an absinthe then
February 7th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
PERCY you are a sick man who needs help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 7th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
whatever happened to my keyboard? memo to self… copy edit before posting!!
February 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Jade Goody’s father complained she was the victim of racism when she first appeared on Big Brother.
Andrew Goody claimed other housemates cruelly said the former dental nurse resembled Miss Piggy - a character from the TV show The Muppets.
This, he said, amounted to a racial slur because her facial features are the result of her West Indian roots.
Mr Goody, who had a black father and a white English mother, said at the time: “She’s got a wide nose and large lips, like West Indians have, and to call her a pig is racist.”
Andrew Goody was black just like O’Bama and O’Bama’s kids or am I wrong. Is O’Bama white coz of his white mum?
February 7th, 2009 at 9:49 am
…mmm ….Brandy & Meth…what a wonderful winter warmer and anti-freeze in one……thanks for reminding me June…..I drink a toast to..
“Good Health!”,…….
February 7th, 2009 at 8:41 am
dairy, the port and absinthe does tend to make him somewhat veiny and blue mould…..more effective than the brandy and meth he used to use
Percy and self and agw go back a long way…..
February 7th, 2009 at 6:35 am
blac randfather actually….. not hat its relevant of course!
February 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
person ?
February 6th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
White mother, black father = ??
February 6th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
o go on then …you have twisted my arm….the front side…… please
February 6th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
…you mean I have a choice?
February 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
which side?
February 6th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
June…be a sweety…and bring out that cricket bat…it seems like I’ve been a bad boy again.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
that’s fine Percy - may you and June be forever happy with your cheesey chemistry!
however, it is you who misunderstood - you accused June of calling you obnoxious (see post 15..), which she did not do! as for her meaning, it seems I was there well before you…
port and absinthe…?? sounds like dynamite for brains to me!!!
February 6th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Dairy…try to understand…between June & me there is this kind of cheesey chemistry…brought on by Port & Absinthe….probably