emma chittenden

Please forgive me if this makes my blood boil.  The BBC have reported that Ofcom have upheld a complaint against a Channel 4 documentary called the “Great Global Warming Swindle”.  They say that it was not impartial.  Now hang on, just one, blinking minute.  Every single programme, news report or proclamation about global warming fails to be impartial.  They dictate that there is Global Warming, despite evidence to the contrary, they never give an impartial view of the situation.

I refused to believe any of it before, and I most definitely refuse to believe any of it now.  In order to get a good understanding of any situation it is important to have all the facts available.  Failure to have all the facts leads to an impartial view of a given situation.  So telling us it’s “x”, without saying anything else, is an indoctrinating view.  It’s unfair that we should have it pushed upon us.

Anyway, no doubt someone will come on here, with their own views and tell me I’m wrong.  Well that’s my privilege to be wrong in their eyes.  I think they are wrong, again this is my privilege.  If you don’t agree with me, good for you, I just hope the disagreement is of your own opinion, and not that formed of somebody else’s view that you’ve chosen to adopt as yours.

Note – I wrote this in July but for some dumb reason I didn’t publish it.

Watching the girl next door dance her way up the garden path while she was watching her shadow.  I’m sure she would have been utterly embarrassed if she’d seen me watching, so I withdrew from the window.

In other news, R is committing mass murder of the wasps that keep coming into the conservatory.

Arthur C Clarke has died.  Bit of a sad one, not only one of the greatest writers of our time, but also one of the most famous people to come from Taunton.  His memory will live on at Richard Huish College (which was a grammar school when he went there), it’s now a sixth form college.  The library was named after him.

Anyway, for those of you wanting to read more there’s a good news item on BBC news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm

Yesterday I was talking about wearing heels as being foot binding (far from flattering), the piece the item can from was following on from where Alice Walker spoke of the woman’s right to wear the Niqab. I know I’m a little late off the mark on this one, although I could still hit close to the bone given Channel 4’s alternate speech on Christmas day.

This subject does make me rather angry, but I won’t go off the deep end but will say: whilst we are tolerant of other cultures in this country, you cannot expect to use the race or religion card when what you are wearing gets in the way of the ability to do your job.

If a deaf person, who was a lip reader, could not understand you, would you continue to talk in a manner, which meant they could not understand you? If you wore a veil, and the person you were teaching had to read lips but your beliefs told you not to take your veil off, who would be in the wrong? It’s a hard thing to get your head around. I potentially put more thought into it. However I feel sometimes you have to take things at more than face value.

We should do something because it has a reasonable basis in our life, not because a peer or a book told us to. Wear long draping clothes because you may not have the most flattering of figures and it’s best to cover up (me then), wear a mask over your face because you’ve had chemo and to be infected with germs means certain death or wear flat shoes because it hurts too much to wear heels. Don’t however listen to someone who tells you to cover every part of your body possible because they’re too ashamed to see your body, without at least questioning WHY they want you to do it.

Anyway, after everything that’s been said in the news, and the mixture of emotions that it’s stirred in everyone I applaud Alice Walker for saying the following: “Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement”. Something everyone should consider I think.