Share token for the Times Women 2020 list

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

WTAF, what a depressing list.

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

@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.

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

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

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?

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.