Just The Facts, Ma'am

[coalescent]

Ah, journalism. In today's Guardian:

Feminism: Outmoded and Unpopular.
[...]
Those questioned felt women were more equal than ever before and believed that issues such as women's greater domestic role or concentration in lower-paid jobs are the result of individual choice and natural differences between the sexes which had to be addressed by individuals rather than, as the women's movement argued, society as a whole.

What they don't mention until half-way down the page:

The findings, which are based on a sample of 35 selected individuals...

Comments

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

Selected from where, that's what I want to know.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

And by whom. :)

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Good grief. Either of us could do better than that by polling our friends lists. And this is worth space in a national daily newspaper?

[fba.livejournal.com]

become as outmoded as the suffragettes

The Suffragettes outmoded? These are the women that *died* to get women the right to vote......

What an appauling way of 'commemorating' the anniversary of women getting the vote......

True equality is unlikely to become a reality - but that doesn't mean it is irrelevent and we should stop striving for it.

[danmilburn.livejournal.com]

The Suffragettes outmoded? These are the women that *died* to get women the right to vote......

And? To say they are outmoded is not to put them down - indeed it's the fact that they achieved what they set out to do that makes them outmoded.

True equality is unlikely to become a reality - but that doesn't mean it is irrelevent and we should stop striving for it.

Of course not. The question though is how we should strive for it.

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

More equal?

And biased poll, or what.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

More equal?

Sure. It's just that some are more equal than others... [/pred]

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[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

You are so predictable. [/pred]

Just read the report, didn't bear much resemblance to the article

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

Though I suppose revelations like, "every week, two women are killed by their current or ex-partner" are old, old news.

No, far more exciting to quote people out of context, make unsupported statements and re-hash your own prejudices.

I notice that Lucy whatever is not one of the journos who publishes her email address at the end of the article. Unlike Tasha Walter.

Re: Just read the report, didn't bear much resemblance to the article

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. The variability in quality of the Guardian's reporting never ceases to amaze me!