Gently with the Women
A cracking start to the new series.
Emily Woof stole every scene she was in.
Gently's illness is a downer though. Does this signal the last series? I hope not ...
Excellent episode, you are correct! Correct again on Emily Woof, a fantastic performance. The attitude toward women made my skin crawl, and even though it's 46 years later, some of that sexism is still with us, unfortunately. The road to equality is a long and bumpy one but we are making progress.
Very glad to see Gently back again and I also hope this is not the last series, but at least we have the rest of this one to look forward to. :)
I was in my early to mid twenties during the time when this is set. I don't remember being too aware of the, now obvious, inequality.
If this is set in '68 I'd been married, was separated and heading for an amicable divorce. Needless to say I married far too young.
I was in Australia in a small town called Leeton, NSW at Easter when a young school teacher called Steph Scott was murdered. The incident caused widespread dismay amongst the local population. But I was amazed to discover that 30 women had been murdered in Australia THIS YEAR and it is only April. This statistic didn't seem to worry too many people. It seems that the attitude to women in Australia is lagging somewhat behind that in UK. Though that may be a rather harsh judgment based on my superficial assessment of attitudes.
I'd be interested to know how many men were murdered in the same period. men are generally much more likely to be murdered than women.
shareBut a murdered woman is far more likely to have been killed by a man who purports to have loved her; a 2013 World Health Org study shows that about 40% of all murdered women worldwide were killed by their partners. The stats for men are nowhere NEAR that, and it's bc women are still regarded as subordinate to men in many societies.
Even in industrialized nations, where women ostensibly are equal, they ain't equal, which is apparent from the degree to which they're still objectified. (In the US, roughly 35% of all murdered women are killed by their partners, so it's not like we're so much better off than, say, a tribal culture that is keen on "honor" killings.)
This is why we're commenting on the stats for women. Many many many complicated issues surrounding women's safety and well-being.
"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."
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I'm not sure the attitude is lagging, it is more that the media does not report the cases, unless there is something they deem "newsworthy" about them. Maybe they are so obviously open-and-shut domestic violence that there is no investigation to report. But when they smell a story, the Aussie media go for it.
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