Comments on: Princess Diana returns from the grave to torment me http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/22/princess-diana-returns-from-the-grave-to-torment-me/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:09:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/22/princess-diana-returns-from-the-grave-to-torment-me/#comment-13915 Erich Vieth Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:23:41 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1319#comment-13915 For those interested in news cycles, keep track of the Diana coverage in the coming weeks: it will undoubtedly reach the saturation point at the end of the month, when anyone who ever shook hands with the Princess will wax poetic about how remarkable this woman was, failing to note that her remarkability was largely a product of circumstance rather than real character (what would have been truly remarkable is if Diana did no charity work at all -- lauding her for charity is like tipping the taxman). This quote is from Alternet: http://alternet.org/story/59934/?page=1 For those interested in news cycles, keep track of the Diana coverage in the coming weeks: it will undoubtedly reach the saturation point at the end of the month, when anyone who ever shook hands with the Princess will wax poetic about how remarkable this woman was, failing to note that her remarkability was largely a product of circumstance rather than real character (what would have been truly remarkable is if Diana did no charity work at all — lauding her for charity is like tipping the taxman).

This quote is from Alternet: http://alternet.org/story/59934/?page=1

]]> By: gatomjp http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/22/princess-diana-returns-from-the-grave-to-torment-me/#comment-13260 gatomjp Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:22:43 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1319#comment-13260 Carl, that may all be true but she's never deserved the level of saintlike adoration she has received. I think even you would agree with that. She was just a flawed human being after all. Carl, that may all be true but she’s never deserved the level of saintlike adoration she has received. I think even you would agree with that. She was just a flawed human being after all.

]]> By: cari http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/22/princess-diana-returns-from-the-grave-to-torment-me/#comment-13254 cari Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:57:57 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1319#comment-13254 I think all of you are jealous, ignorant assholes....Diana was a good person and humanitarian. I think, not being BORN into royalty, she could empathize with us "common folk"...and I think she did a lot of good for various causes. She didn't deserve that cheating, less-than enthusiastic husband of hers. She always looked miserable and I felt for her. Money did NOT buy her happiness, it was obvious. At least Dodi gave her "some" happiness before she died. I feel sorry for her sons too. I think all of you are jealous, ignorant assholes….Diana was a good person and humanitarian. I think, not being BORN into royalty, she could empathize with us “common folk”…and I think she did a lot of good for various causes. She didn’t deserve that cheating, less-than enthusiastic husband of hers. She always looked miserable and I felt for her. Money did NOT buy her happiness, it was obvious. At least Dodi gave her “some” happiness before she died. I feel sorry for her sons too.

]]> By: gatomjp http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/22/princess-diana-returns-from-the-grave-to-torment-me/#comment-12567 gatomjp Wed, 23 May 2007 15:31:52 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1319#comment-12567 We like looking at pretty things. That's human nature. To imbue this rather ordinary person with extraordinary characteritics merely because she had the good sense to be born to the right parents and be in the right place at the right time to be chosen as a princess always was distasteful to me. To my eyes at least, her lack of confidence and charisma was immediately apparent and she seemed completely unsuited for and undeserving of her position and notoriety, other than the fact that she looked the part. We like looking at pretty things. That’s human nature.

To imbue this rather ordinary person with extraordinary characteritics merely because she had the good sense to be born to the right parents and be in the right place at the right time to be chosen as a princess always was distasteful to me. To my eyes at least, her lack of confidence and charisma was immediately apparent and she seemed completely unsuited for and undeserving of her position and notoriety, other than the fact that she looked the part.

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/22/princess-diana-returns-from-the-grave-to-torment-me/#comment-12560 Erich Vieth Wed, 23 May 2007 02:51:31 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1319#comment-12560 Gatomjp: Good point. If Diana had been a man of average looks who died in a car crash, people would have said "Hey, he was a self-indulgent status seeker who did some photo-ops for charities. Bury him and move on." Gatomjp: Good point. If Diana had been a man of average looks who died in a car crash, people would have said “Hey, he was a self-indulgent status seeker who did some photo-ops for charities. Bury him and move on.”

]]> By: gatomjp http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/22/princess-diana-returns-from-the-grave-to-torment-me/#comment-12559 gatomjp Wed, 23 May 2007 02:42:18 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1319#comment-12559 Music fans and fans of the late Marilyn Monroe that I know personally were outraged that Elton John took that song away from her and gave it to the dress mannequin Diana. Diana's popularity was due simply to the fact that she was pretty and wealthy. If she had been unattractive, do you really think her image would have been plastered on the tabloids as much as she was and still is, no matter what her accomplishments? I think not. I believe that those so-called 'accomplishments' are often used to justify and explain the inexplicable adoration that many people felt for her. Music fans and fans of the late Marilyn Monroe that I know personally were outraged that Elton John took that song away from her and gave it to the dress mannequin Diana.

Diana’s popularity was due simply to the fact that she was pretty and wealthy. If she had been unattractive, do you really think her image would have been plastered on the tabloids as much as she was and still is, no matter what her accomplishments? I think not. I believe that those so-called ‘accomplishments’ are often used to justify and explain the inexplicable adoration that many people felt for her.

]]> By: projektleiterin http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/22/princess-diana-returns-from-the-grave-to-torment-me/#comment-12553 projektleiterin Tue, 22 May 2007 20:18:28 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1319#comment-12553 I've once heard that Mother Theresa supported princess Diana's divorce, although she had lobbied in Ireland against the introduction of divorce (I only did a quick search on google - http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html). I admit, I have never been really interested in her (I'm honest at least, maybe I should say I just have not felt inspired in any way as far as now to find out more about her), but from what I have been picking up as far as now, she is not just the saint as which many people view her. Princess Diana was definitely a drama queen. Drama, drama, drama. :D By the way, am I the only one who thinks that Elton John's idea of turning a song that was dedicated to a dead woman into a song dedicated to another dead woman was very odd? To this day I have never heard anybody say anything negative about this. I’ve once heard that Mother Theresa supported princess Diana’s divorce, although she had lobbied in Ireland against the introduction of divorce (I only did a quick search on google - http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html). I admit, I have never been really interested in her (I’m honest at least, maybe I should say I just have not felt inspired in any way as far as now to find out more about her), but from what I have been picking up as far as now, she is not just the saint as which many people view her.

Princess Diana was definitely a drama queen. Drama, drama, drama. :D

By the way, am I the only one who thinks that Elton John’s idea of turning a song that was dedicated to a dead woman into a song dedicated to another dead woman was very odd? To this day I have never heard anybody say anything negative about this.

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