Of course, I’m being sarcastic. And if you didn’t get that, you
need a lesson son.
Here’s the thing, in the last year the amount of female
positive exposure in the media, the news, TV Shows, magazines and just general
chit chat has been incredible, with shows like Miranda, Anna & Katy, New
Girl, GIRLS, Two broke Girls; I mean look at all that Girl Power. Strong,
funny, smart women are in abundance, but I can’t be the only one who already
knew this, surely?
It feels like every few years, there is this surge of media
attention on women, a trend if you will, that disappears as soon as it hit the
front page of Take a Break magazine.
One show follows another show, then another and then it’s forgotten. Yes
people, women are funny. Do I have to
mention those who have been around for years, decades even? Well I’m going to
anyway. Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Tamsin Grieg, Tina Fey, Jo Brand or how
about the amazing sketch show Smack the
Pony, which I loved and was probably a little inappropriate for my age when
it was its on, but god do I love those women. I’m surrounded by smart, witty
women every day; I don’t need to be reminded every time I turn onto Channel4
with a montage of faces flashing before my eyes and ol’shouty man repeating “Funny
Women!” like it’s a shocking statement. Ok, I’m starting to sound like an angry
suffragette. But you get the picture.
What I’m getting at is it feels a bit patronising, like a
pat on the head and an “Aww, well done”. I don’t want this positivity to go
away, but I think everyone gets it now. So stop going on about it, before it
becomes a novelty. Like the ‘Harlem Shake’.
Woman, Out!
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