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A misleading and dangerous article...
On May 15th Janet Street-Porter used her column in the Daily Mail to write a factually inaccurate and deeply offensive piece on depression, titled "Depression, It's just the new trendy illness."
This group is to raise awareness of what was wrong with this article, and to share a collective horror at what Janet Street Porter has written.
The full article can be read below
here.
Below are a few selected quotes from the article:
"I find something very repellent about this recent epidemic of middle-class breast-beating. This tidal wave of analysis about why'having it all' isn't what it used to be. [...] Get a grip, girls."
"Nowadays women who've never been in a war zone or experienced an act of terrorism are claiming that are suffering from stress when all they do is run a home and get the bus to work."
[After discussing the issue of depresion in men.] "At this point, I'm afraid to say, I laugh out loud. The idea of feeling sorry for a bloke with low self-esteem is frankly, risible. Let's just call it karmic revenge for all those years men have been in charge of everything."
I encourage anyone as offended by the above comments, and the rest of the article as we are to spread the word and write a letter of complaint to the PCC. I am as of yet unsure what the aim of this group is to achieve, what we want from Janet Street Porter, so please do send suggestions.
This group is to raise awareness of what was wrong with this article, and to share a collective horror at what Janet Street Porter has written.
The full article can be read below
here.
Below are a few selected quotes from the article:
"I find something very repellent about this recent epidemic of middle-class breast-beating. This tidal wave of analysis about why'having it all' isn't what it used to be. [...] Get a grip, girls."
"Nowadays women who've never been in a war zone or experienced an act of terrorism are claiming that are suffering from stress when all they do is run a home and get the bus to work."
[After discussing the issue of depresion in men.] "At this point, I'm afraid to say, I laugh out loud. The idea of feeling sorry for a bloke with low self-esteem is frankly, risible. Let's just call it karmic revenge for all those years men have been in charge of everything."
I encourage anyone as offended by the above comments, and the rest of the article as we are to spread the word and write a letter of complaint to the PCC. I am as of yet unsure what the aim of this group is to achieve, what we want from Janet Street Porter, so please do send suggestions.
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