I have just watched a Sunday night BBC Four lecture that has rattled me into a much needed blog update. In the last two weeks or so it has been announced that BBC Three is to be axed on television and moved wholly online for the broadcaster's cost saving measures. This has caused many debates and arguments from young people and celebrities who have tried in vain to save it. It is a platform for new work, of early comedies that have later gone on to be world famous including 'Little Britain' and Welsh comedy 'Gavin and Stacey'. It has provided teenagers with endless documentaries about sexual and social health, a wealth of importance in this day and age, where media is hugely responsible for the next generation's education and not just parents. So now I shall discuss briefly my thoughts on the BBC Four show I have just endured, and whether I now feel it was right for the BBC to decide to move BBC Three entirely online in order to 'free up' more money for its other channels. As one Radio One DJ aptly put it when interviewing the head of the BBC, have the corporation not just chosen the channel with the youngest overall audience age, in the knowledge that they are perhaps too respectful and unaware how to fight against this decision, only increasing the watching hours for the middle-aged, middle-class, who are already provided with BBC's 1,2 and 4 on television, let alone it's abundance on radio.
'Oh Do Shut Up Dear! Mary Beard on the Public Voice of Women' As a relatively confident and outspoken female and graduate of English Literature, this topic caught my attention. It is something regularly discussed in literature and long essays, that of the position of women both historically and presently, and how these are represented through literature. My recurring problem with this is long-standing, only emphasised by Mary Beard's lecture, that of the 'feminist' and a populations obsession with the 'feminist'. I will not make any further comments on the 'f topic', but rather try to concisely explain my grievances. In my opinion, women wanting equality and freedoms in the western world need to change tact in 2014. Emily Davison who met her fate in front of a race horse, and the many other campaigning suffragettes in the early Twentieth Century should be applauded for their temerity against a male-held state, however similar women now are lacking in orignality and flair I would argue. My issue is with lecturers exactly like Mary Beard. Her continual reference to the Greco-Roman period is utterly unrelatable in the 21st Century, and without bringing any new ideas to the floor, she is simply turning up an historic point, relentlessly preventing women from developing in this contemporary era and holding them back before the turn of the century with an obsession that has worn me out. In short, what I am trying to say is that some women are causing their own misfortune, reminding a modern society of what used to be, and therefore allowing that expectation to be brought into the present. it might well be so that the male voice held dominance two thousand years ago, but to remind us of this is unnecessary and perhaps one could go so far as to suggest cruel, holding back the majority who are forging ahead with equality and really do not have an issue with it now. Granted we have not as yet had a female Chancellor of the Exchequer, and yes it is scientifically proven that we do denote a higher level of authority from one with a lower tone of voice, but the repetition of these issues are only a backward step in a forward era. Women who obsess over literature of the past are stifling themselves, so as to only be recognised among their own tittering kind, indulging themselves in sympathy and overflowing social media with little of substance. The issue that female inequality is still rife in social media is unfounded, as the issues now are women attacking each other, while men dare not and barely would bother to get involved in such insignificant disputes. This therefore now forms the basis of my argument for the retrieval of BBC Three from the depths of Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web. I have an issue with BBC Four broadcasting a programme such as Mary Beard's lecture, if it is to be an alternate to the imaginative and informative young person's BBC Three. We should be encouraging young women not to exhaust themselves concerning a futile topic confining their intellect to the past, but allow their development into a new, fresh and modern era, promoting health, originality and prosperity without the burden of history.
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