So, apparently, it's unfeminist to slag off Victoria Beckham. Supposedly, we're a load of witches if we dare suggest that David's philandering is all Victoria's fault? The Observer | Comment | Posh versus the coven
Well, all very interesting. However, there is another possible interpretation. When somebody so cynically uses their marriage as a commodity, a means to publicity, and a way to get money (from us, the consumers), I think we're allowed a little smirk of schadenfreude She held them up to be the perfect married couple, the implication being that nobody is as good as them.
Who can resist a gloat of triumphalism when you hear that that couple you used to be friendly with until they declared they only socialise with couples - or try to create an artifice of coupledom with you and a mutual gay male male friend - have split up?
