I’m sorry to have to say this, but Becky Cheetham is still a nauseating, patronising bitch. I just came across this Youtube short from them, and instantly felt I needed to say something. In it, it seems that Becky’s disabled sister, Hannah, is celebrating her thirty-fifth birthday; but from the way her sister was treating her and talking to her you would think that she was only about five. As I explain at some length here this is a Youtube channel I have had major issues with for some time: at the end of the day, Hannah is being used essentially as a puppet to attract attention while her sister foregrounds herself to take all the credit. You don’t need to be an expert in film analysis to see how it’s shot like a human exhibiting her pet or a mother showing off her newborn baby. Quite frankly I find it sickening.

You can probably tell that I like blogging: I see it as my way of conveying my opinions to the world, and over the years I have blogged about all kinds of things. I relish the freedom and ability to do so. Yet it seems to me that Hannah Cheetham is being overtly denied such freedom, and instead is being used as a puppet, cued only to say things at her sister’s command. Perhaps she doesn’t feel entitled to speak out against her sister; perhaps she has been told that things have to be this way; perhaps this is some fucked up kind of Stockholm Syndrome. If so, then perhaps it is up to those of us with the ability to speak out against such things to do so. We have to say what we see, and what I see is a woman with just as much ability, potential and intelligence as I or anyone else has being used, patronised and silenced by her sister. I would love to hear what Hannah Cheetham thinks about things, but until her sickeningly condescending sister gets the fuck out of the way, I fear that won’t be possible.