If ever there has been a time to debunk the myth that death is a great leveller it’s now. COVID 19 has highlighted in technicolour how class, ethnicity and gender as in every other aspect of life affect our individual chances and outcomes.
The Rush to Judgement and silencing the angry woman
If you look out for it, judgement (normally negative) of women based on lots of stereotypical ideas, is commonplace. And there’s been a lot of it about this week in the cases of both Serena Williams and Ariana Grande. Two high-achieving women with talent and careers that most of us would die for, who happen to have behaved in ways that contravene stereotypes of how women should be.