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Post by johnc on Jun 24, 2019 15:01:50 GMT
I read this BBC article at lunchtime and just thought WTF. Every one knows what Man Up means, no-one I know would consider it remotely sexist and we really do live in a broken society when what we say is being scrutinised in such detail. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48743113 |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 24, 2019 15:07:42 GMT
I read this BBC article at lunchtime and just thought WTF. Every one knows what Man Up means, no-one I know would consider it remotely sexist and we really do live in a broken society when what we say is being scrutinised in such detail. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48743113In one short sentence Hunt gets himself in trouble with PC Brigade. You can understand why Boris wants no part in a debate and is keeping schtum.  |
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Post by scouse on Jun 24, 2019 15:09:32 GMT
I read this BBC article at lunchtime and just thought WTF. Every one knows what Man Up means, no-one I know would consider it remotely sexist and we really do live in a broken society when what we say is being scrutinised in such detail. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48743113It's the BBC what do you expect. Look for an op-ed in the Guardian in the next day or so. |
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Post by Tim on Jun 24, 2019 15:17:30 GMT
I read this BBC article at lunchtime and just thought WTF. Every one knows what Man Up means, no-one I know would consider it remotely sexist and we really do live in a broken society when what we say is being scrutinised in such detail. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48743113It's the BBC what do you expect. Look for an op-ed in the Guardian in the next day or so. Er, the BBC are simply reporting the fuss about it kicked up by some other people - who I agree are idiots. They appear to have sought sources from both sides of the discussion, isn't that a reasonable thing to do? |
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 24, 2019 15:23:57 GMT
I read this BBC article at lunchtime and just thought WTF. Every one knows what Man Up means, no-one I know would consider it remotely sexist and we really do live in a broken society when what we say is being scrutinised in such detail. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48743113Yes, I had the same reaction.
But some people are remarkably tetchy about such things. I've discovered that the expression "I don't want to be an old woman about this" (eg when worrying about something) is also deemed offensively sexist by some people.
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Post by scouse on Jun 24, 2019 15:27:29 GMT
It's the BBC what do you expect. Look for an op-ed in the Guardian in the next day or so. Er, the BBC are simply reporting the fuss about it kicked up by some other people - who I agree are idiots. They appear to have sought sources from both sides of the discussion, isn't that a reasonable thing to do? It was a non-story without the Beeb's reporting. 4 against and 1 for, around 2000 words against and around 550 for, with the antis topping and tailing the article isn't a reasonable piece of journalism. |
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Post by Tim on Jun 24, 2019 15:28:39 GMT
If I'm reluctant to do something at home, often that will involve personal peril such as exercise, Mrs Tim usually tells me to stop being a pussy. Is there a body I can report her to?  |
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 24, 2019 15:29:33 GMT
Perhaps the thoroughly awful Priti Patel threatened to pay a visit unless they published a story knocking Hunt to distract from Johnson's travails.
That would do it for me!
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Post by Tim on Jun 24, 2019 15:30:10 GMT
Er, the BBC are simply reporting the fuss about it kicked up by some other people - who I agree are idiots. They appear to have sought sources from both sides of the discussion, isn't that a reasonable thing to do? It was a non-story without the Beeb's reporting. 4 against and 1 for, around 2000 words against and around 550 for, with the antis topping and tailing the article isn't a reasonable piece of journalism. I'm sure balance will be gained when the Daily Mail do a report with a similar word count in quantities the reverse! Don't worry about it anyway, I agree its a non-story but we've all added to its validation by clicking on the link and creating a page view  |
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 24, 2019 15:37:27 GMT
If I'm reluctant to do something at home, often that will involve personal peril such as exercise, Mrs Tim usually tells me to stop being a pussy. Is there a body I can report her to? I too regularly get told to "be a man" or words to that effect, if I have incurred my wife's scorn over something where she thinks I should be being more manly.
She's a firm believer in equality of opportunity for men and women, and in women being the equal of (or superior to) men, and something of a leftie to boot, but at the same time she is absolutely not one for political correctness, which she thinks is silly Anglo-Saxon nonsense.
I can imagine Jeff would say something similar about W2.0's views.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 24, 2019 15:37:29 GMT
While walking in our local park this weekend I observed an under-13 football match taking place where the shout went up "Man on!" as a defender went to clear the ball. As the person shouting had no idea as to whether or not the person identified by the shout was non-binary gendered I have reported the team to their local FA. I expect long bans to follow.
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Post by Tim on Jun 24, 2019 15:41:01 GMT
While walking in our local park this weekend I observed an under-13 ...........I expect long bans to follow. Well, you should stop wearing that raincoat for a start  |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 24, 2019 15:42:58 GMT
While walking in our local park this weekend I observed an under-13 ...........I expect long bans to follow. Well, you should stop wearing that raincoat for a start It's OK, I have a dog now. Great cover. |
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 24, 2019 18:46:29 GMT
Racing is correct: W2.0 has the kind of views that would make a millennial shit themselves and head for their nearest safe space. It goes like this:
Naturally women are superior but men are physically stronger and their mental make up means they can’t ever see that they’re anything other than perfect. Of course they are supposed to have muscles and play sport and be prepared for sexual activity on demand.
In terms of equality she’s of the opinion you should get rewarded for ability not class, colour, sex or physical ability. Female sex sells because men are weak and an easy target and obviously a lot of men pay for sex because they always have to have a female body of a certain shape and firmness and when they’re fat arsed losers paying is the only way.
Don’t think she’s going to get that job on the Guardian staff writers desk....
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 24, 2019 19:49:58 GMT
I read this BBC article at lunchtime and just thought WTF. Every one knows what Man Up means, no-one I know would consider it remotely sexist and we really do live in a broken society when what we say is being scrutinised in such detail. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48743113Reminds me of an incident at one place where I worked back in the 1980's. We were re-writing operating procedures and came upon the word "draughtsman". Slight debate over whether or not that was sexist as we did happen to have a few female draughtswomen. Should we use the phrase "draughtsman or draughtswoman", or just "draughtie"? I think we settled on using "draughtsman" with a prefix to the section that contained an explanation along the lines that "draughtsman" was to be taken as a person of either sex (this was before other options were considered reasonable) who drew things |
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Post by grampa on Jul 15, 2019 9:51:05 GMT
I think it's just that since so much more written word is published these days, there are more people to waffle on writing complete crap.
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