Companies, laws and nations as a result are so overtly the other way now that positive discrimination has become genuine and unmistakable discrimination against white males (if you apply for a job these days, you have to put down your gender, race and age. If they haven't got enough of the minorities in the workforce according to some discriminatory law they brought in a few years ago, white heterosexual males are largely discounted from the search at the first step. Minorities with the minimum qualifications are GUARANTEED interview, which is just a nonsense). It's pathetic to continue discussion in the media of sexism with such a blatantly loaded agenda, hence asking Suzie Perry about the topic without so much as a passing feint towards those who get ahead because they're women. How about we just ask talented drivers whose face isn't pretty enough or don't have the image to fit in with corporate sponsors, and thus can't progress in their career? How about we ask Suzie if she was given the role because she was the best presenter, or if she was a female candidate and auntie beeb don't want to appear male-centric?
As a side-note... How many times have you seen segments in the local/national news about some young girl whose doing a bit of karting on the weekend, or the next formula up (because her parents have the money), where she's labelled as the next F1 superstar...? Males don't get the same treatment do they... And lets face it, those women are 999 times out of 1000 going to fail to get anywhere near F1. Is it discriminatory? NO! That's just a statistical fact about anybody who wants to be an F1 driver.
For me, name, gender, race, sexuality etc should not matter. How do you expect to get anywhere, as a nation, company or legal system, without placing actual ability as the main criteria of the search? If orange, bi-sexual, transgender Amazonians are to take over the planet because they are the best at everything, so be it. Genuinely, mankind talks about progress, but we are the thickest species on Earth.
As a side-note... How many times have you seen segments in the local/national news about some young girl whose doing a bit of karting on the weekend, or the next formula up (because her parents have the money), where she's labelled as the next F1 superstar...? Males don't get the same treatment do they... And lets face it, those women are 999 times out of 1000 going to fail to get anywhere near F1. Is it discriminatory? NO! That's just a statistical fact about anybody who wants to be an F1 driver.
For me, name, gender, race, sexuality etc should not matter. How do you expect to get anywhere, as a nation, company or legal system, without placing actual ability as the main criteria of the search? If orange, bi-sexual, transgender Amazonians are to take over the planet because they are the best at everything, so be it. Genuinely, mankind talks about progress, but we are the thickest species on Earth.
