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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Insulting Best Celebrity Fathers List Names Peter Andre [article from Articleranks]

Insulting Best Celebrity Fathers List Names Peter Andre


When you're trying to boost your website, you have to generate content for those big content days. Just gone, Father's Day. 'Who are the year's best Fathers?', they ask. Who is 'Father of the year?'. Prepare to have your blood boiled, because of the billion or so fathers out there, Peter Andre is apparently the daddy of the mac. The UK hotel chain we should all blame (and possibly boycott) for this choice is Premier Inn, by the way. Other celebrities also happen to fathers, but apparently they're not quite as good as Andre. Poor Elton John, and poor David Beckham.

To rub salt into the open wounds of credibility, this is the second time the (supposed) pop star has won the award. And if his non-notoriety is an issue, calling his activities 'good parenting' is a far bigger one. Hailed for spending 'quality time' with his kids, we only know about this because he's been showing them off in reality shows for the last half decade. Fathers, take note: the key to starting great parenting is found in the bottom of a tube of Alpha H and in the cold hum of irrelevance that you find on ITV2.

Perhaps the day after Father's Day is also an appropriate time to question what manliness even is these days. The man of the 50s is a dinosaur, the man of the 70s a still distant memory, and the present day man caking himself inMolton Brown skin care. The new wave of parent that Andre represents isn't your Father's... err, Father. This 'new man' has been a part of popular culture for about forty years, leading us to the logical conclusion that they're now the only men. But they're definitely the western archetype now.

Daft awards weren't the only event in the Father's Day calendar. Google pressed a few wrong buttons by adding the notice 'Reminder: call dad' to Gmail. Google seems to have forgotten that some people love their Fathers, but can no longer reach them. Or that others have cut their Fathers out of the lives for very good reasons. It's tantamount to telling everyone in the world to buy a box of chocolates for their significant other on Valentine's Day. Google are usually just benignly incompetent: this time, they've shown an ugly face that no generous helping of Elemis could improve. This has been Google at their most unfeeling and insensitive. But when it comes to social media awareness, this event is all classic Google. People are already too sceptical of their social credentials to bother with the +1 button even.



tags:television,celebrities,men,Father's Day


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