lil-minx92 Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Get Maggie T on there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halibut Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Polly Jean Harvey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horribleblob Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Kenneth Williams. Or Tony Hancock. Oh wait. It is about time, a woman started appearing on British money, apart from the Queen. It'll have to be Hattie Jacques then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InigoMontoya Posted May 13, 2013 Author Share Posted May 13, 2013 Sizeist. Baldist. And as for being a "bum", have you seen Chartwell? Where do you live to be looking down on a place like that, Xanadu? Surely the Equality Act applies to living people only? If not, this could open up the doors to a awful lot of retroactive lawsuits. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Women make up over half of the population so your comparisons in this case aren't appropriate. Let me rephrase the question for you then. Is currency, of which only 4 pieces carry images of people (not including the monarch), which are changed every few years, supposed to be truly representative and fair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steptoad Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 How about Mary seacole, after all Florence Nightingale was on the tenner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffragette1 Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Let me rephrase the question for you then. Axiomatically, yes. Women have been airbrushed, overlooked and written out of history enough as it is, unless they happened to be a monarch or monarch's consort or mistress. I had taken a passing interest in this development until I looked at this thread and after having read the usual round of totally dismissive comments that I would expect on SF, it has radicalised my view. There have been 16 historical figures featured on banknotes since the portraits were introduced in 1970 – including only two women: Florence Nightingale was on the £10 note from 1975 to 1994, and in 2002, Fry was introduced on the £5 note. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAxe Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 To whom do you refer? The woman in the article. It is all attention seeking, nothing more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffragette1 Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 The woman in the article. It is all attention seeking, nothing more. What is your evidence for this? And why do you begrudge it so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenRivers Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Grace Darling would be a good choice imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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