Sorry I haven’t been around for a while but I’m busy preparing my novel for publication and I now have so many social media sites on the go it’s hard keeping up with them all plus work!
It was also a shock that the [final episode of “Time Team”] did not acknowledge the women in the team. All of the ‘talking heads’ were men! What about Carenza, Jenny, Katie, Helen, Bridget and all the other females that contributed? Every one of us are highly regarded in our profession – so what happened?
I wasn’t really surprised though, as there was always an underlying current of uncertainty to how women should be portrayed on Time Team, which you would only know if you had been a part of it. Bottom line, we had as much right to be there as the boys – and sometimes it really didn’t feel like that. There was always a constant change of female cast – one minute they were there, and the next they were ‘let go’. In my early years, I was constantly looking over my shoulder: am I too fat, boring, sexy, girly or informative enough? One year I had suffered extreme weight loss due to work-related stress and the loss of my father, and quite sadly at least two TV execs congratulated me on losing a few pounds. I can also relay stories of how one of the females on Time Team was given money and told to have a ‘good hair cut’, whilst another was told that it was a shame because she ‘looked good but didn’t have a personality’.
I know that TV is not the real world, and one thing we should all have is perspective. At the end of the day I am an archaeologist – the TV bit is just the means to communicate my work to a larger audience. But it does make me reflect on the sometimes uncomfortable gender issues in being a female archaeologist, down to things like comfort facilities on site or having to put up with nudie calendars in site huts. I’m not going on a feminist rant by any means, but it does make you think.
“We asked Carenza …”
Seriously, this is wrong. I always sensed there was an inequality going on and the girls deserve as much credit as the men as they doubtlessly contributed the same in terms of hard graft and professionalism.
And, of course, they were much more pleasant on the eye than Phil Harding and that bloody hat - now that TT is over, do we get to perform a ritual cremation and bury the remains in an Iron Age pot at the foot of Stonehenge?
Panama Cigars - Carlos Fandango Wheels
Funny Ferrari commercial (one of the Hamlet Cigar advert series)
You only see what they want you to see, remember that.
what a powerful image
Forever reblog
wow
speaks volumes
True!
The hamburger phone - as made famous in endless episodes of Home and Away gracing the counter of the coffee shop with Irene yelling “Aw, good gawd, Girlie!” at least once a week!
Just some sad old git trying to appreciate the beauty and humour that can be found in this world after a lifetime of crap - rather like a contemporary Don Quixote foolishly in pursuit of a lost childhood....
I am a writer / novelist. I am also a psychologist continuing with my research into PTSD - a subject very close to my heart. I compose classical music and dick about with classic cars and off roaders.
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