Analysis Of Vicky Pollard By Imogen Tyler

Through the use of her own words, Imogen Tyler has researched and divulged into the emergence of the word “chav” in the English language. Her article not only traces the history of the word “chav” and the “chav figure” it also concentrates on “the figure of the female chav, and the vilification of young white working-class mothers” (Tyler). She also goes on to talk about the “historically familiar and contemporary anxieties about female sexuality, reproduction, fertility, and “racial mixing”. Using examples such as the ill-famed “Vicky Pollard” character from the popular and well known British character-based comedy sketch show, Little Britain to back up her argument of how the word chav has evolved to become a term of abuse to describe the white poor.
As evident from Tyler’s article abstract, she has shown a particular interest in the character known as Vicky Pollard from the comedy show Little Britain (as previously stated). This character (portrayed by the comedian Matt Lucas) can be described as being what everyone assumes to be a chav, sporting cheap clothing, badly applied make-up and an accent that can be assumed to have originated from another planet entirely. It is with this character that Tyler forms the
The website was created by Californian computer science student Aaron Peckham in 1999 with the intention to provide an internet forum where “users post definitions of new or existing slang terms”. Because of this, there exist multiple entries for the word “chav” with all of them portraying the word in a derogatory and negative way. Another site which features abuse towards the “chav” population is “ChavScum”. It is worth mentioning that through her research, Tyler explains that it was through this site another insult towards the “chav” was created and became what is now known as the “chav