Heather Mills McCartney gives Women a Bad Name

A recent Yahoo story has Heather Mills McCartney liekening her treatment by the press to that of a peadophile or murderer.

A bit extreme since she deliberately courted press attention during her brief marriage, and she is guilty of most of the accusations she is protesting about. From pretending to be an award winning journalist of the same name to being a golddigger.

I really have no sympathy for a woman who wants to be paid £30 million for 4 years of marriage. She’s still only 39, and she was supporting herself before Sir Paul McCartney came along, so why can she not do so again?

Mills McCartney is now the mother of a young child, and I hope for the little girl’s sake, her mother has shielded her from the venom and bitterness she has displayed since her marriage broke down. But I cannot conceive of how she feels she deserves such an exorbitant sum for 4 brief years.

I feel equal antipathy, contempt even, for the men who are now ‘kept’ by their former wives. The most high profile would of course be the former Mr. Spears aka K-Fed and the former Mr. Jessica Simpson, Nick Lacey.

These are young men in their prime earning years, and yet they don’t have to lift a finger as their former wives pay their way. Just because a young , pretty and talented woman was foolish enough to marry them in the first place, does that mean she should continue to support them into their dotage?

Woman are more than capable of earning their own way, and if we could overturn the surviving prejudices against us in the workplace, we would probably all earn more than our men folk. 

This is demonstrated time and again on the internet, There are very few woman making a song and dance about their online earnings, perhaps we are more discreet than the men, but the girls are there nevertheless.

When there is a level playing field, where reward is given regardless of sex, race or religion, then effort, skill and persistence determine who wins the spoils. 

But I for one will always make sure my man pays his own way, just as I pay mine.