"can't help wondering why' Ms Bennett has joined the increasing number of "nicely brought up" middle class girls who choose to reject their parents' values and become at most bomo-unrowing revolugonaries or al leat camp followers of the comrades.' She points out that an increasing number of 'middle class girls' seem to be attaching themselves to revolutionary groups — Patty Hearst. Urike Meinhof and Rose Dugdale, who is chosen 'as the most extreme example of such 'girls'. In searching for the lon term significance of the *Rose Dugdale syndrome', she refers to her own experience at Oxford where she 'sat at the feet of spotty young revolutionary poets, enjoying their denunciation of 'our class, our accents and our parents' as a freudian revolt against her upbringing.
Women, it is suggested throughout, are not really interested in revolutionary politand the rebellion that surrounds male revolutionaries and the cause they take up. Never for one moment are we allowed to believe that women have minds of their OWIl Because Ann Leslie plaved revolutionary politics at Oxford and made cocoa for young trots, Antonia bennet, Rose Dugdale etc. are presumed to be cast in the same fickle mould [although no CS IOr is own sake. but for une clamour c tions].
The Daily Mail sees no contradiction in Antonia's choosing to live in a 'dingy house in an Oxford back street' [one of many such nouses in brain, and me supposed gramour of life with a revolutionary. Nor is it concerned with the fact that Homer and three other shop stewards have been victimised for protesting at the unfair dismissal of a worker al cowiey. ane Mail, and the press in general, - is only interested in discrediting these workers as much possible by prying into their personal lives for "sensational' angles that divert people From the rear issues al stake in an attempt to prove that they lead deviant lives.
When a secretary marries a managing director, the Daily Mail is the sort of paper that would run a good luck story. That is because it is every girl's dream to marry money and live happily ever after! When a woman of 27, who happens to come from a wealthy family, chooses of her own free will to live with a carworker who is a revolutionary, this becomes food for a scandal.
This scandal aims not only to provide innocent titillation for the readers of the •PAGE 10 ANOTHER MIDDLE-CLASS REBEL HITS THE HEADLINES of 'getting Daily Mail, Tuesday. September 7, 197