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So we can put real life examples here in the discussion? The phenomena has a British term - \\\"Yummy Mummy\\\" - and that\\\'s what I googled on to get here. I was going to report that in the 1970\\\'s, the Sunday night BBC current affairs show \\\'\\\'That\\\'s Life\\\'\\\' featured worthy charities and concerns, giving them national TV exposure and a chance to use the power of the BBC TV network to pull in donations. For a long time it profiled a little boy called Anthony Nolan who was dying of some sort of horrible, and who wanted there to be a Anthony Nolan Trust to remember him by and research into whatever was kicking the crap out of his vital functions, as nobody knew a lot about the disease he had except that it would be incurable and he\\\'d be dead by age ten. Fair enough and watching women wept buckets and threw cash at the screen. Apparently Anthony was a heartbreakingly cute child, but we adolescent males watching \\\'\\\'That\\\'s Life\\\'\\\' weren\\\'t watching for him and couldn\\\'t tell you which of Anthony\\\'s organs were packing it in to save our own lives. The truth was, we just weren\\\'t interested.

The draw was the sickly child\\\'s mother, who appeared on TV with her stricken son and who was universally acclaimed drop-dead gorgeous and a wank fantasy worth watching. Dark-haired, sultry, slim, gorgeous... none of us had ever seen a mother like that before. It was outside our experience. We all fantasised about helping his mum get over it when he went..

We were \\\'\\\'callous\\\'\\\' fourteen and fifteen year olds... later on, there was a Madeleine McCann sort of mystery, concerning a young boy of about the same age who dissappeared while on holiday in Greece. The mother of young Ben ~Needham was not a skilled middle class medical professional who could play the right games and come over as a worthy victim who ticked all the boxes. Ben Needham\\\'s mum was an unskilled worker off a council estate, or \\\"crap\\\" next to the Doctors McCann. (The sort the papers hate and subtly claim were responsible for their child\\\'s dissappearance.) But she was young, cute, blonde and buxom and did her interviews while wearing skimpy tops with no bras...I\\\'m sure it was only this that kept her in the public eye...

So we can put real life examples here in the discussion? The phenomena has a British term - \\\"Yummy Mummy\\\" - and that\\\'s what I googled on to get here. I was going to report that in the 1970\\\'s, the Sunday night BBC current affairs show \\\'\\\'That\\\'s Life\\\'\\\' featured worthy charities and concerns, giving them national TV exposure and a chance to use the power of the BBC TV network to pull in donations. For a long time it profiled a little boy called Ben Nolan who was dying of some sort of horrible, and who wanted there to be a Ben Nolan Trust to remember him by and research into whatever was kicking the crap out of his vital functions, as nobody knew a lot about the disease he had except that it would be incurable and he\\\'d be dead by age ten. Fair enough and watching women wept buckets and threw cash at the screen. Apparently Ben was a heartbreakingly cute child, but we adolescent males watching \\\'\\\'That\\\'s Life\\\'\\\' weren\\\'t watching for him and couldn\\\'t tell you which of Ben\\\'s organs were packing it in to save our own lives. The truth was, we weren\\\'t interested.

The draw was Ben\\\'s mother, who appeared on TV with her stricken son and who was universally acclaimed drop-dead gorgeous and a wank fantasy worth watching. Dark-haired, sultry, slim, gorgeous... none of us had ever seen a mother like that before. It was outside our experience. A frequent suggestion was \\\"When Ben dies, and face facts he will do, can I help you father his replacement, get another one primed and ready to go?\\\"

We were \\\'\\\'callous\\\'\\\' fourteen and fifteen year olds...