“Where have you been for the last two years?” was the question asked of British TV presenter Philip Schofield by the exasperated Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, as Schofield questioned whether media coverage of Meghan Markle was racist. “Where have you been for the whole of your life?” might equally have been asked of him.
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.
