Has political correctness and sexism gone mad? Not
that the following diatribe has a point, I just thought it worth a comment or
two.
In the week when the Honourable Company of
Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield came under fire for their antiquated rules
on membership comes news that the ‘2013 Women’s World Car of the Year’ is the
Ford Fiesta 1 litre EcoBoost.
Two weeks
ago William Hague got slated publicly for muttering ‘stupid woman’ under his
breath. Two weeks ago, nobody batted an eyelid when my wife called me a
‘stupid man’.
Anyway, I
had a look. There are 18 members of the all-woman motoring journalist jury
assessing the merits of the ‘Women’s World Car of the Year’, three each from
the UK and the USA, two each from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa, and one each from India, Argentina, China and Ireland.
When it
comes to the non-gender specific ‘World Car of the Year’, the jury numbers 69
individuals (representing 22 countries/regions of the world), only 3 of whom
are women. Their choice for 2013 was the Volkswagen Golf.
Makes you
wonder who had the biggest bun fight. All those men having to moderate their
language with three women present, or the women having a good old hand-bagging
with no men present.
Do we really
need a ‘Woman’s Car of the Year’ and a separate ‘Car of the year’? How about a
Kid’s Car judged by Blue Peter viewers, and a Dog’s Car at Crufts with special
windows that catch the slevvers and prevent them slopping on to the windscreens
of following cars? Or the best looking car sitting on bricks, as judged by
Weegies displaced by the Commonwealth Games kerfuffle?
Who was it
who said, “all for one and one for all”?
The three
musketeers. And they were all men. You can’t win, eh?
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