grahamg
Old codger
- Location
- South of Manchester, UK
In a local store yesterday I spent a few minutes trying to look for a magazine I might like to read, and I'm afraid I failed to do so.
There were huge numbers to choose from but almost all had women's faces beaming down on me, as they were connected to tv. or radio, soap opera stars, and of course the usual array of women's magazines, with all their articles about celebrity culture and so on.
There was one man at least I recognised, on the cover of a BBC publication or gardening magazine, (as it was Monty Don, a fairly well known tv gardener, and he's a thoroughly decent chap though his persona would not be considered macho by most people I'd guess).
The other men's faces included Prince William, alongside his wife Kate, so that was fine, but I would guess less than 10% of the faces on view were men, and those other men that were there, I didn't know who they were pretty much.
My point here is that we've had decades of moves to supposedly try to make the world fairer, and I dont want to mention to "E" word, so you'll have to guess what I'm referring to, and this is what we've ended up with, a society arguably dominated, at least in popular culture, by women it would appear.
I checked out the website of the legal firm I use recently, and six out of seven young lawyers being taken on in the last year were women too, (all well and good, "just redressing the balance" I hear you say!).
There we go, "modern Britain" for you!
There were huge numbers to choose from but almost all had women's faces beaming down on me, as they were connected to tv. or radio, soap opera stars, and of course the usual array of women's magazines, with all their articles about celebrity culture and so on.
There was one man at least I recognised, on the cover of a BBC publication or gardening magazine, (as it was Monty Don, a fairly well known tv gardener, and he's a thoroughly decent chap though his persona would not be considered macho by most people I'd guess).
The other men's faces included Prince William, alongside his wife Kate, so that was fine, but I would guess less than 10% of the faces on view were men, and those other men that were there, I didn't know who they were pretty much.
My point here is that we've had decades of moves to supposedly try to make the world fairer, and I dont want to mention to "E" word, so you'll have to guess what I'm referring to, and this is what we've ended up with, a society arguably dominated, at least in popular culture, by women it would appear.
I checked out the website of the legal firm I use recently, and six out of seven young lawyers being taken on in the last year were women too, (all well and good, "just redressing the balance" I hear you say!).
There we go, "modern Britain" for you!
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almost every shop, everywhere in the western world (and no doubt beyond) will stock what sells and those numbers will be variable depending on both demographics and proven sales history 
It's a very simple concept Graham, and nowt to do with female domination or the "E" word 
