So apparently WAGs are good role models for young girls? (current events)?

Question

It was on BBC news this morning that footballers WAGs are good role models for todays young girls because most of them have acheived at least 5 A-C grade GCSE's prior to marrying/ getting together with famous footballers.

This apparently teaches girls that education is important and it gets you places (because apparently a lot of these women now have their own businesses).

It didn't mention the fact that they are supper skinny (unhealthily so) and may have gotten where they are in the business world financed by their partners earnings and not on their GCSE's

Forgive me, I may be an education snob but I would hope that my children will aspire to acheive a bit more than 5 A-C grade GCSE's!!!!

What do you think of this report?

sorry, I stand corrected, I should have said many of the are super skinny and a few of them were 'famous' before the footballers (though not in the business world I hasten to add)

and 5 A-C grade GCSE passes is the bare minimum, if I got 10, 4 A-Levels an Hons degree and a Masters, I am hoping my children can do better than 5 GCSE's!!!!!!

a fine point opg, wayne rooney being a prime example! horrible little thug that he is!

Hopper13, my brothers each have 8 GCSE's and then went on into apprenticeships, I class that as achievement also, as an equivient to academia as they worked hard and a very successful and earn more than I do in their trades!

Answer 1

there are not many intelligent wags we witnessed that with ann robinson and the weakest link they couldnt answer questions that a 5 year old could.
if i had a daughter they would be the last type of role model i would want for my daughter. if your looking for a role model for young women look no further than ellen macarthur for inspiration there are many more i have no doubt be she shines a beacon for decent women who dont go around ripping their knickers off for the first footballer that comes along and then selling their sexual antics to the glossies for money.
wags are nothing more than glorified prostitutes IMO they sleep with footballers for money and nothing else.

Answer 2

There are young girls that aspire to be a 'wag' which by definition is simply the wife or girlfriend of a football player, surely young females should have more self worth and have better prospects than just this. And five gcse's with grades a-c are the minimum expected for going on to college or sixth form, so its hardly a massive achievement, its in fact, the bare minimum. I think young people should have better role models that reflect someone that has worked hard and has not compromised themselves in order to get there.

Answer 3

WAGS are good role models for young girls?

what rubbish

these girls are quoted as being good role models because they have minimal qualifications

they greatest qualification relates to their ability to attract a footballer (clearly only interested in the girl in questions GCSEs)

on procurring a footballer the next step is (often) to have one or more children to form a family unit and then if the God of WAGS is looking favourably - push the footballer up the aisle being heralded by the sound of tills ringing and cameras flashing - hopefully funded by Hello or OK! magazines

and then become a writer of magazine articles or even a book on how i made my life a success where it can all be retold in great detail

you might even become a fashion icon (they are often described as such) and maybe inspire a whole new generation of wags in your wake

lovely! i'm glad i have sons, they just seem to look at these women posing in their lads mags ...................instead of wanting to be them

Answer 4

None. Tying a large part of the respect of the very young to individual celebrities or public figures is dangerous - better that young people are inspired by the successful or admirable people around them, who they see more closely and more humanly. I should also add that there's no reason the public figures young girls look up to need be female, any more than my role models needed to have the same eye color as me.

Answer 5

This annoys me, they may have all these GSCE's but they do nothing with them! They may well have the odd clothing line between them and a biography here and there but other people do this for them. They may well have their own business but they don't put any of the hard work in themselves, they simply sit back and watch other people do it for them. Before Wayne Rooney's girlfriend did her Asda clothing line, she admitted she went out and spent her 'pocket money' given to her by Wayne! This is not being independent and putting your grades to good use. It is all well and good bragging about your grades but none of you have been to uni, bagged yourself a diploma and got a career of your own! If a good role model is jetting all round the world, chasing after your boyfriend and having no Independence of your own then god help any child who looks up to them.

Answer 6

They also forgot to mention their pretty faces, tons of make up and cosmetic surgery, etc etc.
But I suppose it does mean that some girls will at least try to get some gcse's rather than sitting on their bums and waiting for their footballer to turn up. At least they could get a career in the healthy and beauty business.

Answer 7

Hi Sugar Jane ("sj" he he), it's not good the kind of example they're proud to show.
I rather have a woman Intelligent and pretty, as pretty inside than a super model, they're trying to make that they are super models with brain. Not right, they have more time to study, better chances (maybe doing "favours" to the teachers) and more money than the average people (women).
And one more thing, who said that to marry a footballer you need to be intelligent? They are the 1st ones who can't make the difference between a ball and a stone...
Thank you, I send you a star with kisses and hugs he he.

Answer 8

Sounds as if they are all employing the same publicity agent.
Probably got bulk purchase rate.

It really is time for this country to re-appraise its priorities,
with regard to education and employment, before the situation becomes irrecoverable.

Answer 9

what they didnt say was you get a C gcse , for signing your name on the test paper

its almost true , there was a maths paper this year where if you scored over 30 percent you got at least a C

ISNT 30 PERCENT A FAIL !!!!

all the best
Ian

Answer 10

I'm going to agree with you. I think it is absolutely preposterous that women who have made a career from being completely vacuous non-entities should be held up as role-models. Would they be in positions to run their own businesses if it were not for the fact that they are constantly splashed all over the tabloids, basically prostituting themselves in the process? I think not.