hm actually I don't think the scales have actually drifted that far
David Mitchell (who I don't even really like) made an absolutely excellent point in a paper I don't even really like. In key things women are still disenfranchised www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/18/students-pole-dancing-david-mitchell
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:59, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I think what they mean is ......
By taking something sexually demeaning like pole dancing in a club and turning it into a fitness routine then you turn the act itself into something empowering.
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 12:06, Reply)

Well I don't want to start an argument (lies)
It's a fitness routine all well and good, keep it as that. It's most definitely not empowering and attempts to brand it as such are cynical and anti-woman. But my actual point was women still face discrimination in key areas like equal wages for an equal job, and that the media focus less on that than abnormal once-off cases where women have it better
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 12:14, Reply)