A coda to my last:
what I've noticed too, even on Auntie, is that the Beeb allows female
commentary and analysis of the 'Events' far more readily on radio. As if it
were acceptable, in certain circumstances, i.e. Radio 4 talk programmes
which would draw a small audience among the better off (mainly), for women
to be heard as long as they're not seen. Invisible presences.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
A Chide's Alphabet
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----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Britpo" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: back to front
> > There are precious few women talking heads on the tv apart from the
> > ubiquitous Condoleeza Rice, who seems like one of those hyper-real
> > cartoon/games figures, but that's how it goes
>
> Have noticed that too here, and agree about the unspoken and female issues
> under global eyes. The BBC is a partial exception, where a number of the
> best overseas correspondents are women and one is surprised by the sight
of
> western women reporting from Afghanistan or Iran (those Dangerous Places)
in
> perforce Islamic dress.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
>
> A Chide's Alphabet
> www.chidesplay.8m.com
>
> Painting Without Numbers
> www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:42 AM
> Subject: Re: back to front
>
>
> > Yep, that seems to pretty well sum it up. Male violence is in my
> > observation rooted in deep fears, and one of the fears is women, on whom
> > these young males project their own troubled sexual desires. That's why
> > women have to be totally erased or imprisoned or controlled. Depressing,
> > banal and often (but not always) insoluble.
> >
> > There are precious few women talking heads on the teev apart from the
> > ubiquitous Condoleeza Rice, who seems like one of those hyper-real
> > cartoon/games figures, but that's how it goes... seems to me that gender
> is
> > one of the deep and much unanalysed side-issues of what's going on at
> > present, it bubbles along under the news reports, a sort of dis-ease,
but
> > maybe I'm imagining things.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > A
> >
> >
> > At 11:21 PM +0100 1/10/2001, Paul Green wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your feedback, Geraldine. Having spent sizeable periods of
> my
> > >life drubbing away at the serrated edge of the education industry I
can
> > >certainly endorse your point :
> > >
> > > terrorists are almost without exception young males
> > > with no forseeable goals (sorry about the unintended
> > > pun) who are so disaffected or plain dumb stupid and
> > > selfish (and almost always the ones who think women
> > > are 'things' to oppress to make them feel big in their own
> > > littleness in the big universe of their everday grind and
> > > boredom of going nowhere ) that they'll join any cause to
> > > make their lives worth while.
> > >
> > > And this would seem to be born out by what little is known of the
> > >hi-jackers.
> > >
> > > Best wishes
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Alison Croggon
> >
> > Home page
> > http://users.bigpond.com/acroggon/
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> >
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