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Igneococcus · 20/12/2020 08:48

I have no idea what the problem was with the first thread:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f41a64d6-3b06-11eb-ac13-4bedd83a49b7?shareToken=5da2f939004fbc868487990f57bb89c0

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Abitofalark · 20/12/2020 23:12

Dreadful list and tedious to scroll through such dross. Whoever wrote the photo captions doesn't appear to know what clockwise means, switching third and fourth places. It got confusing when the captions then switched back into correct order while the text went into the wrong order. I may be going mad.

JohnMcClane · 20/12/2020 20:29

When I Google Christine Quinn I get;

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Quinn

Or

gossipgist.com/christine-quinn

I haven't looked at the list but from the tone of the thread I'll take one guess as to which one was included. Hmm

merrymouse · 20/12/2020 20:18

It’s so all over the place that I find it difficult to be offended by the people on the list.

However, if the style desk wanted to do a random joke listicle that is slightly offensive because it equates creating a COVID vaccine with having a famous husband/partner, why not include men?

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 20/12/2020 18:48

What was the sum of their achievements?

Find a cure for Covid? Solve world hunger? Invent a time machine...? Or do a wee dance on social media?

EsmeShelby · 20/12/2020 18:43

It is a terrible list. Tik tokkers, MTFs, and fictional women. The Times really couldn't find 50 women of achievement this year? PM's WAG FFS.

Tootsweets23 · 20/12/2020 18:27

Compiled by Hannah Swerling mobile.twitter.com/HannahSwerls

The fashion/style/lifestyle sections of newspapers always were dominated by completely different types of people to the news desks. Wonder who editorially signed this off at a more senior level - did no one spot that 3 males in a woman's list might not be on brand for the ST?

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 20/12/2020 18:12

More like threw some darts as copies of the guardian and Heat.

FortunesFavour · 20/12/2020 18:11

I reckon they picked them out of a hat at random. It’s the only explanation.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2020 16:34

@ThatIsNotMyUsername

What exactly were people asked to vote on? Name 100 females ?
I don't think it was based on any sort of vote or careful deliberation.
ThatIsNotMyUsername · 20/12/2020 16:14

I still want to know who wrote the list. Certainly doesn’t read like traditional Times readership...

MRC20 · 20/12/2020 14:47

WTAF, what a depressing list.

StandUpStraight · 20/12/2020 14:25

Interesting. Have been watching the comments - and waiting for my own to even appear - and my guess is that in the last half hour an adult has finally entered the room and taken charge of the moderation.

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 20/12/2020 14:20

What exactly were people asked to vote on? Name 100 females ?

FortunesFavour · 20/12/2020 14:17

Yes comments are on, and they are mostly annoyed by the crap list. As am I!

ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2020 14:06

No, comments are there but I think quite a lot have been deleted.

StandWithYou · 20/12/2020 14:05

The comments are on, albeit coming through slowly and heavy on the deletions. The comments are a joy - really annoyed that Keira Bell and JKR aren’t included along with many other suggestion and also criticising some of the choices particularly the models and judge.

OldeMagick · 20/12/2020 14:04

I'd be embarrassed to be included on such a pointless and virtue signalling list. It's a joke.

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 20/12/2020 13:55

In what order are they places exactly? Are comments switched off? What a joke.

GCFeministNC · 20/12/2020 13:30

Emily Maitless. Not always correct but she does asks some hard questions.

I think the Times have not only turned Comments off they're not letting people read them. I'm assuming the author as the up and coming editor of the Style section may have been a bit cowardly.

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 20/12/2020 13:24

But then it’s like when they have awards like ‘mum of the year’ and it’s someone like an ex pop star with many many children, a drug/drink habit and only claim to fame is falling out of taxis drunk at am in a state of undress, and a contract to appear in Hola at least once every other month (Engagement, Marriage, heartache affairs, divorce, baby, plastic surgery...)

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 20/12/2020 13:22

I won’t look at lists like this any more. It will only cause my bloody pressure rise. They are worthless these days anyway.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/12/2020 13:20

Oh yes:

Janice Turner

Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes (Newsnight puberty blockers/Tavistock stories)

Suzanne Moore

Melroses · 20/12/2020 13:13

Someone has commented that they didn't include Janice Turner.

This comment about sums it up:
Apart from the Queen. Really. And you wonder why men rule the world

FortunesFavour · 20/12/2020 12:31

Dreadful list, and the exclusion of JK is so disappointing from the Times. Comments are encouraging though.

Winesalot · 20/12/2020 12:17

Ozgirl75

Who knew the lyrics to Cosby sweater would be so helpful!?

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