Comments | e_moon60: Why There's Still a Need for Feminism: 2 parts out of ???

e_moon60

Why There's Still a Need for Feminism: 2 parts out of ???

Dec 31, 2011 11:56

Part one. The BBC couldn't find a 12th woman as interesting as a female panda named Sweetie for its "female faces of the year 2011." See this site's discussion: http://jezebel.com/5871634/

One wonders who at the BBC--what gender, that is--decided on the ones they did pick, including Sweetie. (I suppose we should be glad there weren't more non- ( Read more... )

politics, feminism, bbc

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tattercoats December 31 2011, 19:00:51 UTC

Thank you for this thoughtful and well-presented comment. I've been fuming quietly about this, with occasional incoherent splutterings.

If I find more useful expression of my feelings on this I'll be back and let you know.

tattercoats December 31 2011, 23:47:41 UTC

If I may... under the wire of the new year (14 minutes to go here) this is how it shaped up in my head. I relied heavily on your precis and Jezebel's killer line.

http://talis-kimberley.livejournal.com/34415.html

e_moon60 January 1 2012, 01:57:19 UTC

It's brilliant! I love it! (Had to go look, of course.)

konoichi December 31 2011, 19:33:37 UTC

Hear, hear.

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e_moon60 January 1 2012, 02:16:15 UTC

Did you see the YouTube of the little girl in the toy store demanding to know why the only things for girls were princess stuff and pink stuff, and how come the boys got to have different colors ( ... )

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e_moon60 January 1 2012, 03:21:52 UTC

Women back then, no. My mother did target shooting (which more women did than hunted) with a Colt Woodsman, a very special one I wish I'd inherited. A friend of hers whose father was a poacher (among other things decidedly not illegal) was a crack shot with just about anything and NONE of it was pink. I knew a few women hunters, more target shooters, and they used regular ordinary firearms. I will guarantee you that no one thought the women I knew in my childhood were any less female for wearing appropriate outdoor clothes when in the outdoors (nothing pink!) or using regular firearms. (There were women who wouldn't have touched a firearm--but it was still a rural area and lots of women did ( ... )

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gifted December 31 2011, 22:10:08 UTC

But don't you know Pippa Middleton conducted herself appropriately all day and everyone LOVED her dress?
*rolls eyes*

Those lists are a (very unfunny) joke.

gauroth January 1 2012, 02:27:12 UTC

yes, dear old Aunty BBC makes a mess of Persons of the Year yet again. The list for Sports Personality of the Year was also women-free.

Bloody idiotic stuck-in-the-50s-nitwits! Why do I pay my licence fee when the men in charge ignore women achievers??!

At least there are posts like this to tell the fools at BBC that they're wrong. I suspect things won't change until we all tell dear old Aunty what a total prat she is by ignoring the achievements of women. Let's keep pushing on for recognition of amazing women's achievements!