Could This Really Be A Guardian Report?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/12/science-fiction-sexism-sfwa

/// The columnists, Mike Resnick and Barry Malzberg, responded to claims that their descriptions were sexist in another bulletin, where they wrote that "all we did was appear in a magazine with a warrior woman on the cover, and mention that a woman who edited a science fiction magazine 65 years ago was beautiful. If they get away with censoring that, can you imagine what comes next? I'm pretty sure Joe Stalin could imagine it … Even Chairman Mao could imagine it." ///

We could be nearer than first thought.

[AB Editor]

"Sindy with an S"

My apologies, I've never had to write her a letter :)

[Octavius]

"the boys had Ken and the girls generally had Barbie"

OMG, sexist alert!

[emmie]

if i was given only pink lego it would be have been given back, i liked lego bricks, meccano, and anything that made a noise, children like toys that do stuff, some girls might like my little pony or an inanimate doll, but generally i liked toys that were moveable. It's to engage and entertain in equal measure.

[emmie]

Octavious, if you are a chap, then unlikely you would have been on the receiving end of much sexist behaviour, sexism in the work place, i did because i mostly worked in men only businesses, industry. It wasn't a time of being able to claim for harassment or being taken notice of, it was expected you would put up with the comments, banter.. sometimes it went just a bit too far.

[jno]

"boys had Ken" - good grief, how many boys do you suppose bought one??!

Ken was for the same girls who bought Barbie; it was to give her a super cool boyfriend.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/photo/2011-07/63533662.jpg

Dig that 1990s model!

[emmie]

some did because i know some boys who had one, dressed him in camouflage gear as a soldier, or any he man outfit. It wasn't just for the girls

[AB Editor]

"some did because i know some boys who had one, dressed him in camouflage gear as a soldier, or any he man outfit. It wasn't just for the girls"

Never heard of such a thing - action man, yes, he-man, sure, Ken-goes-to-vietnam, nope!

[anotheoldgit]

AB Editor

You forgot the accompanied article Ed.

/// http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakewallissimons/100210036/pink-lego-is-an-abomination-end-this-gender-fascism/ ///

[emmie]

well i did, sorry to disappoint.

[emmie]

they also had action man, lego, toy cars, stuffed toys, kids play with all sorts, why should it be limited to the girls.

[Octavius]

He might not have gone to Vietnam but I bet he went commando. Or .....

https://www.dollgenie.com/1993/5626-L.jpg

[anotheoldgit]

em10

/// Octavious, if you are a chap, then unlikely you would have been on the receiving end of much sexist behaviour, sexism in the work place, i did because i mostly worked in men only businesses, industry. It wasn't a time of being able to claim for harassment or being taken notice of, it was expected you would put up with the comments, banter.. sometimes it went just a bit too far. ///

Females are not the only ones to suffer from this type of thing, this also happens if a man works in a predominately female domain, what a guy has to suffer would certainly make your maiden aunt blush.

[mikey4444]

AOG reading the Guardian ?

I may have to sit down for a minute and have a glass of water !

[Octavius]

Water? Really? Not sending the wench to the galley to fetch a flagon of ale then?

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// AOG reading the Guardian ? ///

Always prepared to witness how the other half think, it makes for a fertile and open mind, unlike some who are only prepared to look how far their rose tinted specs will allow them to see.

[Octavius]

"unlike some who are only prepared to look how far their rose tinted specs will allow them to see."

But yeah, my dads bigger than yours so nur.

[FredPuli43]

Oh , I don't know. Some rose-tinted specs allow the wearer to see a very long way back into the past.

[LazyGun]

If the title of AoGs thread was not meant ironically, that last post of his was surely- surely - meant to be ironic?

What else could it reasonably be, from someone who continually writes purple prose (presumably affected by the rose-tinted hue of their spectacles) about the halycon days when everything was so much better :) ?

Good on you though, AoG, for straying outside your comfort zone of the DM once in a whiles.....

Oh - and can you explain what on earth makes you think that if this report had been published in the DM, everyone here would have castigated it?

[mikey4444]

Don't get me wrong AOG....carry on reading the Guardian....please !

[anotheoldgit]

LazyGun

//// Oh - and can you explain what on earth makes you think that if this report had been published in the DM, everyone here would have castigated it? ///

Because of past 'EXPERIENCE', just as past experience of those halycon days when most things were so much better.