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Sweet Susan Boyle Story Becomes Ugly Porn Story

On Friday Remote Lindy made the point that, for all the hype, mania, and You Tube frenzy surrounding her, "Britain's Got Talent" sensation Susan Boyle isn't all that spectacular as a singer. Also on Friday, Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times wrote about what this frenzy about her means about us:

What has made her sudden celebrity so fascinating -- and disturbing -- is that it seems thoroughly intertwined with the notion that, to be blunt about it, an ugly woman can have a beautiful voice. If a petite, pretty in pink 20-year-old had done a marvelous job of warbling the song, would anyone have made such a big fuss about it? Clearly not. Would the Web be so full of wonder if the singer were a chubby guy who hadn't had a date in a decade? In a word: No. So for all our delight in Boyle's triumph, isn't the fuss over her a compelling example of our society's rampant sexism?

And now, as if to prove this point, a porn company has made 47-year-old, never been kissed Susan Boyle a very lucrative and icky offer...

"Britain's Got Talent" Phenom Susan Boyle: Overrated? [VIDEO]

Okay, so here's the thing: Hate us if you must, but the first time we saw the much-hyped Susan Boyle video from Britian's Got Talent, we were underwhelmed at best. The problem is that before we saw it, ten or eleven people had gushed so effusively about how mind-blowing her voice was, and how this woman was just so inspirational and talented, blah, blah, blah. You get the idea. The long and the short of it is -- they way oversold how amazing this clip was going to be, to the point where when we saw it, we were expecting Lea Salonga to walk out and rock our worlds until we were sobbing with the brilliance of it all. In reality, we were unimpressed...

Click through for video and the rest of our rant after the jump...

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