{"id":5624,"date":"2013-06-06T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2013-06-06T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:43:01","slug":"self-rebutting-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/self-rebutting-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-rebutting arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of England has been criticized because the next person selected to appear on English banknotes &#8211; Winston Churchill, on the 5-pound note &#8211; is again male, which will mean that all the figures selected to appear on English banknotes for their contributions to society will be men.\u00a0\u00a0 Caroline Criado-Perez has begun a legal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/womens-life\/10101757\/Meet-the-woman-fighting-the-Bank-of-England-to-keep-females-on-fivers.html\" target=\"_blank\">campaign<\/a> against this blatent sexism, and all power to her.<br \/>\nOne response she has apparently encountered is that this matter is too trivial an issue for anyone to be concerned about.\u00a0 But that particular argument is self-rebutting:\u00a0 If the placement of images of women on national banknotes is trivial and without significant material consequences, then why not do it?! \u00a0\u00a0 The strength of the Bank of England&#8217;s dismissal of her campaign would seem to indicate that &#8211; to them, at least &#8211; the matter is not at all trivial.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps we should not be surprised by antediluvial attitudes to gender from an organization whose front-doormen still dress in 18th-century clothes and top-hats.<br \/>\nThe stated criteria for appearing on banknotes apparently includes: &#8220;the person should not be controversial&#8221;.\u00a0 How, then, I wonder did Winston Churchill, to this day distrusted in Australia as the chief architect of the disaster at Gallipoli, find himself selected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of England has been criticized because the next person selected to appear on English banknotes &#8211; Winston Churchill, on the 5-pound note &#8211; is again male, which will mean that all the figures selected to appear on English banknotes for their contributions to society will be men.\u00a0\u00a0 Caroline Criado-Perez has begun a legal\u00a0campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argumentation","p1","y2013","m06","d06","h14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}