Saturday, April 12

Mum of twins becomes first female bishop ...

... Yep, that's a real headline.
A woman becomes Australia's first Anglican woman bishop and what's the headline all about? MUM - TWINS. They just don't do this to men. If their parental status is mentioned at all it's way down in the last few pars. But a woman, achieves something pretty fucking amazing and she is STILL defined by her children.
Dear Sydney Morning Herald, it's 2008, she's a professional and she's got a great new job - that she has children is not the newsworthy headlining bit.
I'm so grumpy about this, I'm almost tempted to write a letter to the editor.

2 comments:

e said...

I say write that letter!

Ms Brown Mouse said...

Acutally E, I did, but it's a proper newspaper so I had to use my real name and I'm sure someone at work would read it and then I get all thingy --- chickened out basically.