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Steal My Sunshine

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BuffyTheSlavishIdeologySlayer · 15/04/2021 15:16

Apologies to the user who made this come about, but the thread with this in seems to have disappeared.
The OP wrote to the newspaper about misrepresentation of a male defendant as female and the paper responded with this opinion piece.
I forgot who the original op was, but thanks for spreading sunlight.
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/2136685/lucy-hunter-blackburn-gender-in-crime-reporting/

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JWrecks · 15/04/2021 17:16

Wow that is brilliant!

ForeverFaithless · 15/04/2021 17:11

Excellent article, well done, feeling the rays of sunshine Smile

CardinalLolzy · 15/04/2021 17:05

Great piece.
Sex is real, and sometimes it matters, a lot.

UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 17:04

I'm stupidly thrilled about it 😁

Outbutnotoutout · 15/04/2021 17:00

This is a brilliant piece 👏👌

🌞🌞🌞🌞
Let the sun shine through

UppityPuppity · 15/04/2021 16:54

Well done! Flowers

Edna311 · 15/04/2021 16:44

It is a good piece. I've been thinking about this recently (and talking to people who, as previously noted, were completely unaware). Yes, it changes the stats. But to what end? Is it simply the law of unintended consequences?

The article talks about how the reporting changes the perception of women as a group and that is a good point. But I wondered if it also be used in future to argue that since women are (apparently) committing more serious offences, there is less need for single sex spaces? I am a relative newcomer to this debate so I may be behind the times.

Biscuitsanddoombar · 15/04/2021 16:24

Excellent piece!! As we’ve said many times, most people haven’t a clue this is going on

ArabellaScott · 15/04/2021 16:23

Great to see these questions being asked. I mean, mindblowing that nobody apparently considered the implications of recording 'sex' as 'self ID'd', but anyway ...

ChateauMargaux · 15/04/2021 16:20

Great to see this being reported. Thanks to @UnderHisAye and thanks to Lucy Hunter Blackburn for a straight talking piece.

UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 15:49

Ah, I seriously doubt it was me, I actually wonder if they've been waiting for some pressure to be applied to justify wading in.

poorsole · 15/04/2021 15:46

Wow, result UnderHisAye, well done!

UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 15:24

Twas me, thank you for sharing!

I think I'll email the editor back with a thanks - encourage him to keep going.

I did suggest the Scottish HCB and the mixed-sex prison estates as two possible angles for him to investigate...

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