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faces of 2012
Dec. 27th, 2012 06:04 pmRemember this? Last year the BBC published their choices for newsworthy women and it was so groan-worthy it was linked to all over the internet by people saying WHAT THE HELL A PANDA I DON'T EVEN.
So this year they seemed to have learned their lesson somewhat. As in, no non-humans and this time they put their most relevant choices in the headlines and buried the fluffy ones in a sidebar. Their top three are all great choices; Reporter Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria, 14 year-old education activist Malala Yousafzai who shot by the Taliban, and boxer Nicola Adams who is the first woman gold medalist in Olympic boxing.
Their honourable mentions are Claire Squire a triathelete who died during the London Marathon, sombody named Laina who did a popular youtube video about Justin Bieber, Samantha Brick who is famous for writing an article about being pretty, Marissa Mayer who was made CEO of Yahoo while 6 months pregnant, Rachel Onasanwo for being in an article about Olympic volunteers, Pussy Riot for a protest against Putin that landed them in jail, Gina Rinehart for becoming the world's richest woman, Lydia Callis for her ASL translations of NYC Mayor Bloomberg's speeches after Hurricane Sandy, and Paula Broadwell the "mistress" in the Skyfall scandal.
I'd agree with Pussy Riot and Gina Rinehart. Mayer falls into the category of "this shouldn't be news" but unfortunately being treated like a human being while pregnant is still noteworthy. I'm ambivalent about Squire and Callis. Laina no, Onasanwo no, Broadwell no and Brick whatthefuckever no.
People I would add;
Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation who is on day 16 of her hunger strike and has become the public face of the idlenomore movement in Canada.
Sally Ride died this year. Her obituary revealed that she had been in a 27-year relationship with Tam O’Shaughnessy (how's that for an Irish name?) making her the first known LGBT person to have served as an astronaut.
Adela Hernandez, a 48-year-old transgender woman who made history by becoming the first openly trans person to be elected to public office in Cuba.
Park Geun-hye was this year elected first woman President of South Korea.
The 2012 elections in the US resulted in a record number of women in Congress. Including Mazie Hirono, the first Buddhist and also the first Asian-American senator, Tulsi Gabbard the first Hindu in Congress, Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay senator, Kyrsten Sinema the first openly bisexual woman in Congress, Tammy Duckworth the first disabled veteran in Congress. Stacie Laughton also became the first open transgender person elected as a state legislator.
Who else you got?
So this year they seemed to have learned their lesson somewhat. As in, no non-humans and this time they put their most relevant choices in the headlines and buried the fluffy ones in a sidebar. Their top three are all great choices; Reporter Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria, 14 year-old education activist Malala Yousafzai who shot by the Taliban, and boxer Nicola Adams who is the first woman gold medalist in Olympic boxing.
Their honourable mentions are Claire Squire a triathelete who died during the London Marathon, sombody named Laina who did a popular youtube video about Justin Bieber, Samantha Brick who is famous for writing an article about being pretty, Marissa Mayer who was made CEO of Yahoo while 6 months pregnant, Rachel Onasanwo for being in an article about Olympic volunteers, Pussy Riot for a protest against Putin that landed them in jail, Gina Rinehart for becoming the world's richest woman, Lydia Callis for her ASL translations of NYC Mayor Bloomberg's speeches after Hurricane Sandy, and Paula Broadwell the "mistress" in the Skyfall scandal.
I'd agree with Pussy Riot and Gina Rinehart. Mayer falls into the category of "this shouldn't be news" but unfortunately being treated like a human being while pregnant is still noteworthy. I'm ambivalent about Squire and Callis. Laina no, Onasanwo no, Broadwell no and Brick whatthefuckever no.
People I would add;
Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation who is on day 16 of her hunger strike and has become the public face of the idlenomore movement in Canada.
Sally Ride died this year. Her obituary revealed that she had been in a 27-year relationship with Tam O’Shaughnessy (how's that for an Irish name?) making her the first known LGBT person to have served as an astronaut.
Adela Hernandez, a 48-year-old transgender woman who made history by becoming the first openly trans person to be elected to public office in Cuba.
Park Geun-hye was this year elected first woman President of South Korea.
The 2012 elections in the US resulted in a record number of women in Congress. Including Mazie Hirono, the first Buddhist and also the first Asian-American senator, Tulsi Gabbard the first Hindu in Congress, Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay senator, Kyrsten Sinema the first openly bisexual woman in Congress, Tammy Duckworth the first disabled veteran in Congress. Stacie Laughton also became the first open transgender person elected as a state legislator.
Who else you got?