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Fatima’s next job could be in cyber

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EugeniaGrace · 12/10/2020 14:13

My left wing friends are up in arms - how dare the evil tories dash her dreams.

But, but, but, I am torn.

Isn’t this what we have been asking for? The ability to dream of stem careers for women and not say the only dreams open to women should be in the underpaying arts and prancing around in a tutu. Argh!

(There need to be be money to retain though. Rethink. Reskill. Reboot. Seems to be missing the learning grant or what have you for DomCum’s digital wonder world).

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 12/10/2020 15:30

Plenty of people in the Arts/Entertainment field who've been working online for months, so inept from that point of view as well.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2020 15:29

It was spectacularly insensitive in the current time and they took it down quite quickly, to be fair.

katmarie · 12/10/2020 15:29

Ballet isn't just prancing around in a tutu, it's incredibly hard work, the dancers are athletes in their own right in my opinion, and train endlessly to be successful. To me, feminism isn't about saying women should have access to typically male careers, it should be about saying that all career choices should be available to women, and all should be valued and respected. The arts shouldn't be underpaying, or as vastly undervalued in this country as it clearly is. As adverts go it's exceptionally poor timing, but then I would expect that from Bojo's government at the moment.

FrankieStein402 · 12/10/2020 15:22

Scope for plenty of pisstaking though:
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MichelleofzeResistance · 12/10/2020 15:18

My DM just sent me that, incandescent. Incredibly insensitive at a time when so many dancers, actors, performers of all kind are on the brink of losing their livelihoods.

Just chuck in your dreams and ambitions love, and do something useful.

BraveBananaBadge · 12/10/2020 15:10

It’s the people I know in the arts who are offended - they’ve trained long and hard to perfect a craft and forge a career, only to see it treated like an indulgent hobby (‘prancing about in a tutu’), so took it as another kick in the teeth.

However the ad is just one in a series for (yet another) piss poor govt comms campaign, so think it’s just an unfortunate juxtaposition in this instance.