Kia Abdullah update

For those of you who thought that smiling at the deaths of people with double-barrelled surnames  was possibly a one-off in crassness for occasional Guardian hack Kia Abdullah, I am sorry but she seems to have form...
From May 2010 comes this terribly self-indulgent piece about taking the MENSA test which includes this:

'Being a petite 5ft1in has its advantages: I always have plenty of leg room on long-haul flights; I can buy clothes from the cheaper teenage ranges on the high street; and I can usually extricate myself from difficult situations with a well-placed smile.

On the other hand, people often assume that I'm young, dumb, or a bit of both. First glances show long hair and big eyes, not the first-class computer science degree or the two published novels. First glances prompt people to ask if I want a child ticket at the cinema, or if I have a young persons railcard on the Gatwick Express; they don't show a 28-year-old woman who can lead or command.

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I decided to sit a Mensa supervised IQ test. If I passed, I would get a conversation-friendly way to broadcast my genius, and if I failed, then maybe I could finally get rid of the chip on my shoulder. The test came back with a score of 150 and an invitation to join the "top 2% of the population".

Instead of feeling smug, I immediately felt embarrassed. The whole exercise suddenly felt cringingly self-indulgent. Intelligence may be a more respectable pursuit than beauty but I felt as uncomfortable about joining this smart-people's club as I would joining one for beautiful people.

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Even the narcissist in me refuses to believe that I'm more intelligent than 98 people in a random group of 100. And if I am, why on earth aren't I a big-shot executive doing something smart rather than sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor, merely writing about being smart?'

Yes Kia, we get it, not only are you a genius, you are also 'petite',  a '28-year-old woman who can lead or command' and 'beautiful'. What you did not mention in this people is that you also think it funny when people with 'double-barrelled surnames' are killed in a crash...

Kia Abdullah has her own website, for she is a writer. Here are some clips that I found there; do you find them as amusing as I do?

"Pretentious, moi?"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and the last acceptable prejudice - hating 'posh' people - inc Saturday morning Kia Abdullah update

Until Thursday I had never heard of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley but then I heard a nasty film review on a BBC radio station of the new film Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. I am sure the film is poor, the previous two looked dire enough but the reviewer was obsessed by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's 'posh' accent, he even made 'fwah, fwah, fwah' noises as an approximation of her accent. Would impersonating an East End actress or an Indian actress in a similarly insulting way be acceptable? I don't think so. So why is insulting 'posh' people acceptable on the BBC?

I thought that I should at least find out who this Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was, all I knew was that she was 'posh' and a lingerie model. I found many pictures of her, some of which I repeat below for your information.

But is she posh? Here's some video of her being interviewed...

Posh? She is well-spoken and only uses 'you know' once; but posh, I don't think so. Walk around Sloane Square and you will hear 'gels' who make Rosie sound common. That's the trouble with England today; if you don't speak Estuary English or have a regional accent then you are posh... Does that make me posh? I will ask people today...


Prejudice against 'posh' people also reared its head today with the news of the tragic deaths of three gap-year travellers in Thailand. When occasional Guardian contributor Kia Abdullah heard that three 19 year old students had been killed in a bus crash in Thailand, her first thoughts weren't 'how dreadful' or 'how horrible' for the parents or even 'that's dreadful, I wounder if I could write a piece that would be relevant to all the Guardian reading parents whose children are travelling at the moment'. No she Tweeted this:

Kia has of course since 'apologised' and deleted those Tweets and the many replies she received criticising her comments. But just read those two two Tweets and ask yourself 'what sort of a person Tweets that she has no sympathy for anyone killed on a 'gap yaar' and 'smiled' when she saw they 'had double-barrelled surnames'. is vile too strong a word? I don't think so... Deleting history does not mean it never happened, I wonder if Kia Abdullah has also blocked all of us who criticised her/ I would guess yes, after all she does not want reality to intrude into her left-wing prejudiced world...