I'm sure many people reading this know that CAMRA as an organisation do not have the best reputation as being progressive about depictions of gender. But the shit has hit the fan today with the release of the above leaflet.
Apparently, this is CAMRA's young members' wing trying to appeal to the student youth of today. Notwithstanding the blatant sexism that even I, a man pushing 40, can pick up, I dread to think what will happen if and when this leaflet hits universities. Those places are stuffed with Gender Studies students on the lookout for things like this.
It makes me wonder who actually wrote and laid it out. My suspicions are that it was a middle aged man in CAMRA's publicity department who thought this is what da kidz were like these days. The Young Members department have insisted they didn't approve the content before printing. But it seems to have gone ahead nonetheless. A strange lack of oversight to say the least.
#majorfail , as the young people are no doubt saying on their "social internets" now. You can sign a petition or something here.
They published them after their own youngster committee told them they were shit? WTF?
ReplyDeleteCAMRA are about as competent as the fucking chuckle brothers. Talk about doing more harm than good.
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