Our local artist causing outrage

[JohnL]

Hetty Douglas has put the workmen among the pigeons. Think it's Rye Lane McDs

http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/opinion-perspectives/hetty-douglas-working-class-dawn-foster/

[mimifantasia87]

she's a twat

[Chick]

Indeed.

[IlonaM]

What a very immature, unfortunate young woman she is.

And she doesn't practice what she preaches:

From the Standard article: 'Her Instagram post came after in an interview with Dazed Digital on what she ?stands for? she said: ?If you want to say something, say it. I think as long as we are kind and gentle to others and, more importantly, ourselves then everything is bless.?'

[Nigello]

Ms Foster has many good points but I can sense the not-so-reluctantly felt cushiony sensation she has of being able to write truthfully and reliably about being working class (even educating others about it) on the ur-bourgeois platform of Twitter - a "privilege" she may not recognise.

[Loz]

Dawn Foster writes for the Guardian - which pretty much invented "privileged people embracing working class cultural signifiers while struggling to conceal your visceral hatred of actual working class people."

[maxxi]

'our'?! fuck no.

[Robert Poste's Child]

According to the Mail Online, Hetty Douglas's father's a builder so perhaps this isn't completely as it appears?

[IlonaM]

Her social background (whatever it might be) isn't the issue. Her behaviour is.

[Angelina]

what qualifies her to be labeled an artist?

[KidKruger]

what IS an artist ?

[DulwichFox]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> what IS an artist ?

Someone who drinks a lot of alcohol regularly.

Foxy

[Loz]

IlonaM Wrote:

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> Her social background (whatever it might be) isn't

> the issue. Her behaviour is.

Since part of the 'charge' against her is that she's a posh rich girl, it is a bit relevant.

[rendelharris]

IlonaM Wrote:

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> Her social background (whatever it might be) isn't

> the issue. Her behaviour is.

Well, although I think everyone can agree she's a tosser, her background is relevant in deciding if she's a class-traitor tosser or a snobby tosser.

[Jules-and-Boo]

so she's 'self-proclaimed' herself as an artist and is probably just looking for publicity.

[dbboy]

So how many GCSE's did Hetty get?? Who cares, because clearly she can't spell either based on the image in question, perhaps bunking off school wasn't such a good idea then Hetty?

Is Hetty an artist, more like minging abstract images, you decide?? http://www.hettydouglas.com/good-luck#7

And she's taken down her Instagram page, well their's a surprise, not.

[KidKruger]

ha ha, maybe that should now be ex-artist !

You can be controversial and still sell work, but tossers....

[Sue]

dbboy Wrote:

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> Is Hetty an artist, more like minging abstract

> images, you decide??

> http://www.hettydouglas.com/good-luck#7

>

Dear God, they are truly terrible.

Not exactly Jean-Michel Basquiat, is she?

[uncleglen]

Hopefully she will pee off back to Nottingham...

[Chick]

I am beginning to feel sorry for her; she was in the Sun and no doubt will be pilloried for ages. The Sun from the same group of papers responsible for the Milly Dowler scandal.

[JohnL]

The Indy feels sorry for her too

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hetty-douglas-instagram-working-class-builder-dad-gentrify-south-london-posh-girl-a7932891.html

Maybe she should just apologise to the men (and let the media know she has)

[IlonaM]

Glad to see she has some humility:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/artist-branded-spoilt-rich-girl-apologises-over-post-mocking-scaffolder-for-having-one-gcse-a3631056.html

[Angelina]

no, that's called 'Damage Limitation', not humility.

Humility is a value that would prevent such comments in the first place.

[IlonaM]

We can live in hope that she might have belatedly developed some...

[Angelina]

This is the actual comment......it's even worse!

"The artist, originally from Nottingham, went on to claim the workmen in the picture were not the ?large group of guys? she had meant to capture in the image".

So, she took a photo of the wrong people and didn't mean to say it.

You couldn't make it up.

That's not humility, or damage limitation. It's denial.