A ‘Point Of View’

[allenlondon]

Bernardine Evaristo on today’s BBC R4 ‘Point of view’ :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ptc9

I like her writing, mostly I like her views, but not today.

She talks about women’s bodies and society’s attitudes to them. But her conclusions go astray, in my opinion. She does not criticise women wearing ‘sexy’ clothes or make-up, only that models for this sort of costume are habitually thin!

This jumps the gun. The first question must be “should women (or men) have to titillate themselves, to decorate their faces and bodies for whatever reason?” I know women who have never worn make-up, who have never worn revealing clothes - normal women, in other words.

Evaristo seems to have thrown in her lot with the ‘can’t beat them so join them’ stream of feminist consciousness, which is a great shame.

[Peter Pedant]

invalid statments - hi musheh
what is wrong with

"this statement has no polysyllabic words in it"
or " this statement is long"
or are you saying that not valid ( not judgeable) is different to invalid ( wrong)

well all this saves me from having t read some posters' guff

[allenlondon]

Hello Peter.

Well I try to adhere to Orwell’s dictums on writing, so try to avoid polysyllabics. I know you’re not quite as Orwellian (he wouldn’t have approved of all your forrin).

But point taken about reading guff. We need a reliable guffometer.