{"id":22536,"date":"2018-10-24T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22536"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:30:07","slug":"right-on-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22536","title":{"rendered":"Right On BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WomanI\u2019d imagine that many people are aware of the BBC\u2019s obsession with women\u2019s rights, and its ongoing policy of generating alternative history stories to muddy the past. The one that irritates me the most is how they use every opportunity to portray Charles Babbage as secondary to Ada Lovelace. But that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n

This one is a confusing piece about the suffragette movement<\/a>. And one section of it concerns a woman who had a tattoo of Emmeline Pankhurst put on her leg to\u2026 well, that\u2019s about all, really. She had a tattoo of an historical figure from Victorian England put on her leg because she\u2019d watched the film \u201cSuffragette\u201d.<\/p>\n

The first thing that jumped to my mind when I saw the photo (above) was \u201cthat looks like bloody Ada Lovelace, again\u201d. When I saw the name, Pankhurst, I then thought \u201cbut she didn\u2019t look like that\u201d – a memory from my History lessons at school – so I did a quick bit of Googling.<\/p>\n

\"TheHere, you can see the tattoo image and a photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst contemporary with the period during which she was an activist. That<\/strong> is the image everyone associates with Ms Pankhurst.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d get a refund from the tattoo parlour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d imagine that many people are aware of the BBC\u2019s obsession with women\u2019s rights, and its ongoing policy of generating alternative history stories to muddy the past. The one that irritates me the most is how they use every opportunity to portray Charles Babbage as secondary to Ada Lovelace. But that\u2019s another story. This one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t