Some Simple Chat Show Truths for the Built Environment
When I first started commenting on the built environment last autumn, it was an appearance by Saoirse Ronan on the Graham Norton Show that started it all.
Did you see that episode?
And what did you think?
After all, it was the evening television stopped – albeit for a brief, ulcer-inducing moment.
Saoirse had to prompt the host and fellow guests – all men – to basically STFU on the topic of women’s safety as they collectively rolled around giggling at the seeming absurdity of a woman resorting to using a mobile phone as a means of defending herself.
Let’s face it, asking someone politely to stop assaulting you in public – *checks notes* – doesn’t work. We have yet to reach that level of civility, let alone a level of civility in which such attacks would simply never occur.
Eventually the lads did graciously allow Saoirse a chance to get a word in and their reaction provided the GNS with a moment of ‘dead air’ sufficient to get you sacked as a DJ on Radio 2…
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