Comments on: The Grey Ceiling http://thethirdestate.net/2010/02/the-grey-ceiling/ What Is The Third Estate? Everything. What Has It Been Until Now In The Political Order? Nothing. What Does It Want To Be? Something. Tue, 22 May 2012 14:12:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Richard B http://thethirdestate.net/2010/02/the-grey-ceiling/comment-page-1/#comment-7426 Richard B Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:24:19 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=3573#comment-7426 While I support the case completely, I'm not so sure about equating the legal battle against ageism in the BBC with fighting the good fight in totality. Putting down the high heels for a moment in order to get behind a high profile law suit (and let's hope that is does remain high profile) doesn't really compare with what women went through at the beginning of this century in order to gain political recognition. The BBC obviously holds an interesting place within British culture, and any change within it may have interesting, potentially beneficial consequences. But this has to go alongside with an understanding that Women's struggle is global, far from won, and intrinsically connected with other issues of identity, political agency and - ultimately - broad social change. The very confines of feminism or ageism within a ghi-prfile-case-by-high-profile-case framework isn't enough, and that doesn't mean we ought only care about what happens in 100 years' time. It means we have to think big now. Never hesitate to say you're a feminist. Don't just suppport the women who fight for rights - BE the women who fight. While I support the case completely, I’m not so sure about equating the legal battle against ageism in the BBC with fighting the good fight in totality. Putting down the high heels for a moment in order to get behind a high profile law suit (and let’s hope that is does remain high profile) doesn’t really compare with what women went through at the beginning of this century in order to gain political recognition.

The BBC obviously holds an interesting place within British culture, and any change within it may have interesting, potentially beneficial consequences. But this has to go alongside with an understanding that Women’s struggle is global, far from won, and intrinsically connected with other issues of identity, political agency and – ultimately – broad social change.

The very confines of feminism or ageism within a ghi-prfile-case-by-high-profile-case framework isn’t enough, and that doesn’t mean we ought only care about what happens in 100 years’ time. It means we have to think big now.

Never hesitate to say you’re a feminist. Don’t just suppport the women who fight for rights – BE the women who fight.

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