#MeToo in the British Army, Dominic Cummings, Women & Art: How We Look, Geriatric Millennials
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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A former senior Army officer is calling for the military to have a “#MeToo moment” and is claiming that hundreds of female troops have been raped and sexually abused by colleagues. Lt Col Diane Allen, who served for 37 years, says the Armed Forces are being run by “a toxic group of privately-educated white senior officers” We talk to Diane Allen and also hear from the Defence Minister Baroness Goldie.
Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister’s former chief advisor, will today face questions from senior MPs over the government’s response to the pandemic. Cummings is a controversial figure in Westminster, and since leaving his position as Boris Johnson’s top aide, he has not gone quietly, making a series of damning claims against the Prime Minister and government. But would the media and political coverage have been the same had he been a woman? Caroline Nokes, the Conservative chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, joins us to discuss. Art historian Catherine McCormack has just published an impassioned book, Women in the Picture: Women Art and the Power of Looking. She argues that women's identity has long been stifled by dodgy narratives and a limited set of archetypes. For art history to remain relevant, she says, we need to look again and reconsider many of the classics displayed in art galleries.
What generation do you define as? The term 'geriatric millennial' went viral last week, after writer Erica Dhwan used it to describe the micro-generation born between 1980 and 1985. Erica believes they make particularly good employees due to their experience of life before the digital world. Rosa Silverman, a senior features writer at the Telegraph, says she is proud to self-define as one of the around 5 million UK geriatric millennials in the UK.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to the program. |
| 0:42.0 | How do you feel about being labeled or defined by your age? |
| 0:45.8 | I asked because last week a term went viral to describe those born between 1980 and |
| 0:50.7 | 1985 an age group I find myself in. And apparently we are the geriatric |
| 0:55.9 | millennials and that makes us amazing employees because we understand life |
| 1:00.6 | before and after the internet. |
| 1:03.0 | Apparently we differ to younger millennials who often don't like picking up the phone for a call, |
| 1:07.0 | let alone thinking about a landline or knowing what one is, |
| 1:10.5 | won't answer the door, open post, and can find punctuation in a text, rude. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm generalising, of course I am, but that's the point. |
| 1:18.8 | Can we and should we generalise about people's ages, whether it's Gen X, those in their 40s or Boomers, those over 55 or Gen Z in |
| 1:27.0 | their 18s or early 20s, how do you feel about those labels of age? |
| 1:32.0 | I'll be talking to the woman who populised this term, geriatric |
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