I have been mulling over the savaging of Selina Scott last week by the harpies who have columns in the nationals.
Selina has, quite rightly, been challenging sex discrimination by broadcasters over the last few years. In 2008 she successfully sued Channel 5 who dropped her and replaced her with a younger broadcaster.
Selina was widely quoted discussing the ageism issue and the harpies turned on her, with one scathingly saying that Selina herself had been nothing more than an "autocutie" when she was a news reader a few years ago, implying that Selina had been hired for her looks and dropped when she started to lose them.
I doubt if Selina ever considered she was hired for her looks. And by accusing her of that, the harpies imply that attractive women can't have other qualities, namely intelligence, wit, charisma.
And as Gen Y is the majority now - there are more of us watching TV than young people - our views should count for something.
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It's like the chicken and the egg question. If you answer it you deserve a knighthood.
Btw, like your new look.
Gail - great new look for the site! Women can.t bear to see other women doing well most of the time, don.t know why, but there.s never been much sisterly solidarity as far as I am concerned. The songster would have us believe otherwise, (Sisters are doing it for themselves, It,s raining men etc), but real life seems not to be like that. Perhaps we know it.s harder for us, so we elbow empathy and support out of the window in favour of 'me, me, me'. Lucy
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