Clearly we have nothing important to worry about.
The government has been accused of sexism over the new UK passport design, which includes two famous women to seven men.
A first world problem if ever there was one. It’s just a fucking passport. Get over it.
“Asked about the omission of female icons such as Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, he said: “Whenever we do these things there is always someone who wants their favourite rock band or icon in the book.”
Similarly there are always those fuckwits who will contrive some perceived “offence” to further their juvenile agenda.
There’s a cast iron case for fewer MP’s in there, as clearly a lot of them have f**k all to do.
But I will settle for the obnoxious, hypocrite Thornberry if there can only be one exit.
Is it still issued by “Her Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State” who “requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty…” etc?
Maybe we should complain that for the last 60 odd years a man hasn’t had a look in. We exist as well, you know. 😉
Perhaps we could circumvent the arguement if we replaced the pictures of flawed humans with pictures of flawed animals; ferrets are very photogenic. Also dogs don’t have apposible thumbs so they want be able to pick up a pen to complain.
Then we’d have the race activists demanding the inclusion of ‘Black Beauty’!
Speakin’ as a race activist, if a fictional non-race horse is going in, then we have got to have Shergar, Red Rum, Highflyer, Desert Orchid, Nijinsky, Arkle, Frankel….
We are going to need bigger passports.
The fact that someone is stupid enough to say these things is of no consequence. Any one is entitled to say stupid things if they want to. The worrying thing is that some people in the media think that such pronouncements are in any way newsworthy. They should just ignore the fools.
There’s a school of thought that genuinely believes people with an engineering or science background cannot write. At all. And that the best solution is to only hire people who are writers first, and anything else a very distant second.
We’re seeing the result today.
Time was when you had Editors-in-Chief (and decent proof-readers) who could recognise a proper news story without the need for it to paint the word “Hi! I’m news!” in shocking pink, on a six-foot, floodlight, sign. Those days are gone. The few of the old guard who remain are no longer in charge.
So they managed to get seven famous men and ALL the famous women on it?
🙂
Considering one of the women I had never heard of but the other was Ada Lovelace. Her contribution was a lot more than some love story or the like but to have had a major influence on computer development. Far better a Mathematician than a dramatist but clearly the feminazis are simply never satisfied. (Of course, I am a mathematician so may be little biased).