Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Gender Based Censorship in the News Media

Great perspective. The author Dr. Agnes Callamard even got the data to prove it. Limiting the freedom of expression for the sake of securing political or economic investments - so realistic. When it comes to gender based censorship, things have greatly changed during the last decade if you keep an eye on Fortune's Most Powerful Women stats. Sexism is so old-fashioned, and diversity among top management has been taking place for a while, moreover, professional oriented women next to the family oriented ones are increasing -- my type -- but then again if all men are alike, and all women too, look for the exceptions. And by the way, since when does age became a benchmark for a quality point of view or a criteria for knowledge, stereotypes keep you -- the baby boomers -- blindly protected, now aren't they? Trouble is, some evolve faster then you'll ever do, because you are your own benchmark in times when opinionated self-starters make an impact on a daily basis. Success is a state of mind, gender doesn't matter and never did :

"In particular, the results of the GMMP 2005 show and ARTICLE 19’s own work confirms that censorship can be the handmaiden of gender-based power, discrimination and inequality and further, that this type of censorship may be exercised via and by the media. This gender-based censorship is comprised of dynamics that are both systematic and selective in nature, explicit and implicit by expression, intentional and unintentional in outcome and both deliberate and thoughtless in impact. It expresses itself in many shapes, colours, and voices. But ultimately, like all other forms of censorship, it alters reality, dis-empowers, controls, renders invisible, and silences."

I'm still sticking to my point that if girls/women didn't hate each other so much, or let's say be less jealous of one another they could rule the world -- they do rule the world as a matter of fact, but compared to posers media whoring on a daily basis, I'm convinced they're the true puppet masters behind the curtains, now aren't they? Just a thought.

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