Comments on: Grief porn http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/10/29/grief-porn/ Because all the other domain names were taken Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: E Smith http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/10/29/grief-porn/comment-page-1/#comment-2830 E Smith Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:43:14 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2007/10/29/grief-porn/#comment-2830 I totally agree, I too have a local WHS and also spotted this section. There were about 6 shelves also, all with the sad looking child on the cover. I too think ok if you have expereinced simular then maybe it a help, but otherwise I dont understand why you would want to read in detail about other peoples childhoods if they were abusive, it seems a bit sick to me. You can quite well imagine what must happen, and its very sad, but why you would want to know the details is beyond me. Very disturbing. I totally agree, I too have a local WHS and also spotted this section. There were about 6 shelves also, all with the sad looking child on the cover. I too think ok if you have expereinced simular then maybe it a help, but otherwise I dont understand why you would want to read in detail about other peoples childhoods if they were abusive, it seems a bit sick to me. You can quite well imagine what must happen, and its very sad, but why you would want to know the details is beyond me.
Very disturbing.

]]> By: John F http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/10/29/grief-porn/comment-page-1/#comment-2829 John F Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:18:33 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2007/10/29/grief-porn/#comment-2829 Excellent essay. I agree. It's the commoditisation of mawkishness - no, not just mawkishness, but over-the-top commiseration-by-vicariism - which is at the heart of the matter. More concerning is that media outlets keep upping the ante. Subject matter which would have been unprintable a generation ago is shamelessly flogged for the sake of a buck. We have an answer to the question "is nothing sacred?", and that is: clearly not. Excellent essay. I agree. It’s the commoditisation of mawkishness – no, not just mawkishness, but over-the-top commiseration-by-vicariism – which is at the heart of the matter. More concerning is that media outlets keep upping the ante. Subject matter which would have been unprintable a generation ago is shamelessly flogged for the sake of a buck. We have an answer to the question “is nothing sacred?”, and that is: clearly not.

]]> By: Alex http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/10/29/grief-porn/comment-page-1/#comment-2828 Alex Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:53:08 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2007/10/29/grief-porn/#comment-2828 I was horrified to see that <em>Please, Daddy, No</em> was an actual book; I'd been counting on that title as the perfect one for a satire of the phenomenon. Now it's taken, we'll have to push it further, to something like <em>Put It In the Kitten, Mummy, Not Me </em>, which is slightly overdone. Of course, the real question "Real Tragic Lives" raises is what other kind of real lives they think there might be. I was horrified to see that Please, Daddy, No was an actual book; I’d been counting on that title as the perfect one for a satire of the phenomenon. Now it’s taken, we’ll have to push it further, to something like Put It In the Kitten, Mummy, Not Me , which is slightly overdone.

Of course, the real question “Real Tragic Lives” raises is what other kind of real lives they think there might be.

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