Post by max23 on Jan 4, 2019 22:55:49 GMT -5
The Australian Broadcasting Commission is our national broadcaster, similar to the BBC in the UK.
During the week, I saw a report on the ABC's tv news about a protest against moves to keep women away from a famous Hindu temple in India. The protest was also reported on ABC News's website:
"Hundreds of thousands of women have linked arms across the southern Indian state of Kerala in a show of defiance against moves to keep women away from a famous Hindu temple.
Organisers say as many as 3 million women joined what they are calling the 'women's wall'.
The state government enabled the protest by giving many workers and schoolchildren the day off, and the movement has expanded into a demonstration for gender equality.
The campaign was sparked by controversy over a court ruling to allow women into the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala.
The temple has historically banned women of 'menstruating age' — deemed to be between 10 and 50 — from entering on the grounds that menstruating women are 'unclean'.
A Supreme Court verdict from Delhi last year mandated that women be allowed into the temple to worship.
The decision sparked massive protests, with crowds physically stopping women from accessing the temple."
The full article is available at www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-02/womens-wall-in-kerala-for-gender-equality-over-sabarimala-temple/10680140.
The tv report was very similar to the website article, except that on tv, the term that was used was "childbearing age", not "menstruating age".
So in 2019, ABC television still can't use the word "menstruation"??
During the week, I saw a report on the ABC's tv news about a protest against moves to keep women away from a famous Hindu temple in India. The protest was also reported on ABC News's website:
"Hundreds of thousands of women have linked arms across the southern Indian state of Kerala in a show of defiance against moves to keep women away from a famous Hindu temple.
Organisers say as many as 3 million women joined what they are calling the 'women's wall'.
The state government enabled the protest by giving many workers and schoolchildren the day off, and the movement has expanded into a demonstration for gender equality.
The campaign was sparked by controversy over a court ruling to allow women into the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala.
The temple has historically banned women of 'menstruating age' — deemed to be between 10 and 50 — from entering on the grounds that menstruating women are 'unclean'.
A Supreme Court verdict from Delhi last year mandated that women be allowed into the temple to worship.
The decision sparked massive protests, with crowds physically stopping women from accessing the temple."
The full article is available at www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-02/womens-wall-in-kerala-for-gender-equality-over-sabarimala-temple/10680140.
The tv report was very similar to the website article, except that on tv, the term that was used was "childbearing age", not "menstruating age".
So in 2019, ABC television still can't use the word "menstruation"??