Monthly Archives: February 2011

Cinema owners, shame on you.

Last week, I went to my local Vue cinema to see True Grit. My jaw dropped to the ground when I was asked by an eager young girl for a Cinema Exhibitors Association card, as proof of entitlement to a seat for my companion (without whose help I could not have got in to watch [...]

February 17th, 2011|Categories: Access, Changing attitudes, Empathy, Inclusion|Tags: access, accessible, attitudes, changing attitudes, cinema, companion, disability, empathy, inclusion, inclusive, publicity, vue, wheelchair, wheelchairs|

What can we learn from football?

If you are into news or football, or both, you won’t have escaped noticing the furor, and public debate that followed, surrounding two of Sky’s (former) faces of the beautiful game. That Richard Keys and Andy Gray have left the channel following remarks about the professional capability of a woman linesman, and the sexist banter [...]

February 3rd, 2011|Categories: Changing attitudes, Stereotypes|Tags: attitudes, changing attitudes, overturning stereotypes, stereotypes|