Rowan Atkinson makes more sense than BBC’s “Woman’s Hour”
Why TERF ideology is child abuse and how the media supports it. By Natacha This article discusses the clash of ideology and lived experience as exemplified by a recent BBC radio program in the UK. This article uses the term Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) to distinguish between the trans-supportive Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, The Olivia Collective or the West Coast Lesbian Conference and sex essentialist anti-trans feminism of Janice Raymond, Sheila Jeffreys and/or the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. The feminist origins of the term TERF can be found here. Reading the transcript of the Womans’ Hour programme broadcast on BBC Radio on the 9th of March I couldn’t help but be reminded of Rowan Atkinson’s TV advert for Barclaycard. Broadcast many years ago, when I had time to watch telly, and paying the license fee didn’t mean supporting a racist political party, it consisted of Atkinson
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Rowan Atkinson makes more sense than BBC’s “Woman’s Hour”” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging education and youth. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2015 at Transadvocate.com, “Rowan Atkinson makes more sense than BBC’s “Woman’s Hour”” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to education and youth. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety and education policy. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and education and youth, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life25%
- 3Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication23%
- 4Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community21%
- 5Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life20%
- 6Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict13%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 236%
- 310%
- 410%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 275%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history198
- Community and organizing165
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization117
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse80
- Law and civil rights74
- Culture, identity, and representation73
- Education and youth58
- Healthcare and medicine55
- History, archives, and memory44
- Science, evidence, and expertise37
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
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Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Rani Baker
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Kelley Winters
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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