Sky’s Richard Keys and Andy Gray have a sexist rant about a female linesman – and complete it by whining about Karren Brady (barely) mentioning sexism in her Sun column.
Give yourselves a break, please. A permanent one.
The award ‘Spellemannsprisen’ is presented to remarkable Norwegian musicians every year.
Rock- and folk singer Susanne Sundfør was this year nominated for 3 of the 21 categories; best lyricist, best popular composer and best female artist.
But being acknowledged as a ‘female artist’ wasn’t quite Susanne’s cup of tea.
She told the committee that she doesn’t agree with the division of male and female artists, and that her personal viewpoint is that any society should have a genderless perspective on art.
Susanne Sundfør was nominated for, and won, the category last year. She made it clear in her speech that she was first and foremost an artist, not a female artist.
I’m off to buy her record!
You ca read more (with the help of google translator) here.
Tagged: Music, Norway, Role Model
This year’s Trinity students can kick off the year with the Gumball Challenge.
If you’re a guy, this might include drinking from a water gun.
If you’re a girl however, you can be challenged to take of your pants, pin a Playboy bunny tail to your underpants and have some red-handed guy grab you while a photographer is taking a close-up of your ass.
Or you can have your picture taken while you’re having a tattoo done. Somehow the picture might turn out looking like you’re posing for a lads’ mag rather than actually having an impromptu tattoo made though.
Alternatively, you can drink from a tube, but have a picture taken making it look like you were actually making out with your friend.
And then all these pictures can be used to sex up a poster for next year’s event. Brilliant!
For a university still operating with rule books from the 16th century, they’re pretty liberal when it comes to allowing their students to spread sexism and contribute to the sexualisation of society.
It didn’t take many months living in Dublin before I lost count of how many sexist posters I’d seen in there.
For some reason, it seems to be okay with staff, students and board members of Trinity college that every person walking through campus, including students’ potential future employers and thousands of tourists, is greeted with breasts and half-naked asses promoting the next event organised by the agricultural society or something similarly irrelevant.
If anyone wondered how it came about that senior associates at PwC, a highly regarded financial company in Dublin, sent around sexist emails rating female staff members last year, the tolerance for such culture in top educational institutions possibly accounts for some of it.
If the gender equality society is still active, I suggest they gather all the sexist posters over the next term and make an official complaint.
If Trinity is half the brilliant educational institution breeding the country’s next elite they like to promote themselves as, they should demand that their students come up with something better than an ass the next time they want to promote an event.
Tagged: Sexism, Sexualised society, Students, Trinity College
From tomorrow the morning-after pill will be available over the counter for the first time in Ireland.
Based on legislation from 2005, Boots have decided to sell the emergency contraception.
This is a welcome, but long overdue, decision. Until now, Ireland and Greece have been the only two EU countries where the morning-after pill could not be obtained without a prescription.
Access to emergency contraception is essential for womens right to make their own decisions about reproduction. Ireland has a high number of crisis pregnancies every year, and abortion is not only illegal, but also extremely stigmatised.
Making the morning-after pill more freely available will hopefully contribute to a decrease in the number of emergency pregnancies and relieve many women of the added trauma (and economic burden) of travelling abroad for terminations.
This new initiative will also mean that women do not have to worry about whether their GP will provide them with a moral lecture rather than a prescription, as well as greater access to emergency contraception during weekends and holidays. It could also mean one less worry for women who have been raped but do not wish to attend their GP or a sexual assault clinic.
So, thank you Boots, and welcome to the 21st century, Ireland!
Tagged: Abortion, Morning-after pill