I've noticed this a lot on Five Live recently.
They no longer distinguish gender when reporting on (women's) football, The Ashes etc any more.
Ok, I get the equality argument but this policy does detrimentally affect the quality of the reporting - it makes for misleading headlines and content.
I actually have very little interest in women's sports but can I ask what exactly is misleading about (using the OP's example) 'England did well last night' to talk about women's football?
There is nothing misleading about that whatsoever. England women's team are a football team. The players are all English citizens last time I checked? The only reason it is 'misleading' is because we have become programmed that 'England' means only our men's teams. Like I said, I have no interest in women's sports (or the radio, what year are we in ffs?) but whatever the bbc are doing, they aren't saying anything which isn't true.
prejudice is prejudice, and how do you know we are all straight??????
:lol:
Even if I didn't know some of the posters, statistically, 90% of the posters on this board would be straight. I'd be willing to bet that we are not an accurate representation of the population.
Moreover, like you Ben, I've been on this board for a long long time and it is fair to say that you get to know about other posters' personal lives. I thus know for sure Scara is married with a kid and so unless he's particularly late to the game, I'm pretty sure he's straight. You've talked about your life (and perversions
) on here before. I'm pretty sure superted and Richie have talked about their partners in the past as well?
And yes prejudice is prejudice (though I reject the view that all prejudice is equal) but there is a difference between the prejudice that enforces current patterns of domination (and it has been proven in multiple studies that certain groups are much more likely to get called back for interview even if cvs are exactly the same) and prejudice that aims to correct those inequalities.
I just think it's contradictory to fix discrimination against 'minorites' by discriminating against the 'majority'
- which is often how people put forward their solutions on the subject.
What is your solution? Considering those in the 'majority' often either cannot see/ acknowledge the privileges they receive by dint of their Y chromosome or relative lack of melanin or are too apathetic to do anything about it?
Especially as most people who support this kind of thing do not support giving roles to people who are underqualified for the position but who historically are less likely to receive it due to factors often outside their control?