Do we really hate beautiful people?
There was much scoffing and snarky remarks when some Lithuanian government official claimed that Lithuanian children were being beaten up because they were more beautiful than their Irish peers, and the Irish couldn’t handle being around such beauty blah, blah blah.
However, after the past few weeks, one has to ask, is it really something that can cause one person to smack another person in the gob? And is this kind of hating someone for being beautiful confined to children?>
Recent news stories would suggest that it is not.
Earlier this month, Rose of Tralee hopeful Melenie Carroll found herself involved in an incident with two other girls on Ellen Street, while on a night out with friends. She escaped being injured and her family denied the attack had anything to do with the fact that she was a Rose of Tralee hopeful.
It has emerged now that Miss Trinity Rooms, Loraine McCarthy, who is competing in the Miss Ireland final on Saturday, received a broken nose after an unprovoked attack in Shannon.
While she was getting up to leave a pub in the town, she was accosted by another female, who asked “who do you think you are?” before she punched her in the face.
After incidents like this one has to ask, is there any truth in the Lithuanian Government’s claims?