Oh, happy winter solstice.
Dec. 21st, 2005 12:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It is Midwinter. I don't care what your newfangled calendars say, winter is now officially half-over. Isn't that cheerfuller than saying it's only just begun?
So, yesterday, in the cold, I'm watching TV, and there's an ad by the TWU about the strike. How they can pay ads, I don't know - those fines they had to have known they'd get are going to add up *real* fast. Anyway, it was a group of people explaining their jobs and that "I'm TWU".
And they all were woman. Five, six people, and all female.
This struck me as odd, and my mother goes "Well, if they all were men, you wouldn't've noticed". Perhaps not. Perhaps it would've slid past me. And perhaps that would've been sexist and wrong. But at least I wouldn't be sitting there going "This is *not* a representative sample".
Seriously. All day I've been thinking about this. It makes very little sense to me. Logically, there's no *reason* to pick men if they were the best people to stand there and do this ad, but... it's absurdly disproportionate! Why? WHY???
In other Really Boring News (sorry), I can finally pop my ears again. Yay.
So, yesterday, in the cold, I'm watching TV, and there's an ad by the TWU about the strike. How they can pay ads, I don't know - those fines they had to have known they'd get are going to add up *real* fast. Anyway, it was a group of people explaining their jobs and that "I'm TWU".
And they all were woman. Five, six people, and all female.
This struck me as odd, and my mother goes "Well, if they all were men, you wouldn't've noticed". Perhaps not. Perhaps it would've slid past me. And perhaps that would've been sexist and wrong. But at least I wouldn't be sitting there going "This is *not* a representative sample".
Seriously. All day I've been thinking about this. It makes very little sense to me. Logically, there's no *reason* to pick men if they were the best people to stand there and do this ad, but... it's absurdly disproportionate! Why? WHY???
In other Really Boring News (sorry), I can finally pop my ears again. Yay.
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Date: 2005-12-24 04:02 am (UTC)