Archive for August, 2008
Don’t Ugly Women Or Men Take Exams?
It’s that time of year again. The time when the airwaves and news sites are dominated with footage of 16-18 year-olds celebrating their success at GCSE/Highers/A-Levels/Sudoku.
Every news item will feature a group of girls who will be, and quite rightly, ecstatic about their 7 A* Grades at A-Level. They will be performing some kind of Gap advert dance, and hugging each other in between jumps.
This is all fair enough, but what has always puzzled me is not that they are so excited, as I would certainly have been if I had got 7 A’s: but that they are all far better-looking than any of the girls I remember from my school days.
Where are these schools that they find these groups to film? Do they even exist? And if so, can I go back and take my A-Levels again?
If I could go back, I’m not sure I would be allowed in, as nowadays it seems that in order to gain entry you must be:
a) Female
and
b) Good-looking
One or other won’t do – it has to be both.
As I am neither of those, I think I might have to enrol in the male/ugly women schools of which there must be a few around somewhere – maybe Doncaster has one.