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Wimbledon High School (girls' indie) headmistress 'you can't watch Love Island and be a feminist'

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adulthumanfemail · 03/10/2018 18:15

Do you agree?

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placemats · 03/10/2018 18:40

'Do you agree?'

What's that supposed to mean?

ErrolTheDragon · 03/10/2018 18:39

You can’t be the head of a girls’ independent school and be a feminist.

Seriously? Some girls' schools seem to be very good at nurturing feminism and combatting sexism.

AssassinatedBeauty · 03/10/2018 18:38

She's not even really talking about Love Island, she's referring to being obsessed with appearance and spending a lot of time and mental energy on that.

FermatsTheorem · 03/10/2018 18:36

I would have thought the whole set up of Love Island was pretty much guaranteed to lead to a flood of #metoo moments in a decade or so's time, when the young women involved realise how coercive the whole premise of the programme was. I'm not sure that being on Love Island and having a me-too moment later are mutually exclusive; more likely to overlap, I would have thought.

HopeClearwater · 03/10/2018 18:33

You can’t be the head of a girls’ independent school and be a feminist.

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adulthumanfemail · 03/10/2018 18:31

Should have said 'Eeeeek! Minefield'

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adulthumanfemail · 03/10/2018 18:31

I'm not sure whether I agree or not, on one hand they are making 'a career' for themselves and on the other hand they are essentially whoring themselves out for cash. Week minefield

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LARLARLAND · 03/10/2018 18:25

She is focusing on the way the contestants looked and the social media response to that. However I think the majority of responses were about how the contestants behaved. I saw more written about Adam’s behaviour towards women than I did his looks. I though it gave a good window into what a good relationship looks like and what a bad relationship looks like and I hope young men and women take lessons from that. That’s my view anyhow.

ErrolTheDragon · 03/10/2018 18:22

Article in The Times today:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/choose-love-island-or-metoo-head-tells-girls-v5tqmrg79?shareToken=53a06963f8c53f1903071e01aefec7ad

She didn't actually use the word 'feminist' in that.

AssassinatedBeauty · 03/10/2018 18:17

Do you?

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