6 January, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I guess you can throw anything up on the side of a bus nowadays [via the Guardian].

The blatantly anti-woman agenda of the mass media never ceases to amaze me.  I think the British media operates in a much more overtly sexist and hostile way towards women.  I’ve been living here for nearly 4.5 years now and despite the internet, I’m not exposed to as much American media as I am to British media, but it seems to me the sexism of the American media operates in a different way.  Sexism is sexism, of course, and however it works doesn’t make it less offensive and harmful.  I’m willing to concede that I may be wrong about the media differences, but what I can say for certain is that I feel “assaulted” by the media as a woman here in a very real way.  And at least in London, there is also pornography everywhere – in telephone booths, in mainstream shops that sell newspapers and magazines and sadly, even in the newspapers themselves.  You simply cannot escape it.  I believe it is a form of sexual harassment against every woman who lives in this city and a human rights issue.  (I’ll have a more detailed post on this coming up.)

I’ve already written about how, in London, I’ve experienced much more street harassment and abuse from male strangers – my experiences living in New York City, Boston and Paris combined do not match it. I can’t help but think that all of these issues are related.

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1. May Says:

   January 6th, 2010 at 6:52 pm

   That’s really awful