Japan with Sue Perkins
Without doubt Sue does a good show, it is engaging and entertaining and she slips the gags in, however I want to tentatively make a few suggestions on improvement.
Sue manages to antagonise the viewer with some extremely irritating behaviours.
1, she is a bright and highly intelligent person yet she nearly always arrives at every situation with a preconception which then has to be deconstructed. How about an open mind for the future!
2, the pop concert with the men she deemed it to be sleezy because they were men and yet the geishas were wholesome and honest because they were women. Can you spot the bias!
3, Sue is constantly looking for confirmation of a global sisterhood of women, we saw this with the diving grandmas, there is no such thing and Sue knows this, just as their is no brotherhood of Muslims, black men are not bros, and there is no gay community etc etc, these are all limiting tropes. At most all these so called "communities" are shared interest groups and even that descriptor is stretching it!
4, ridiculous statements, she spoke of the Budha wall in the cemetery being a democratisation in death, on the contrary they were in the wall because they were all poor. Also the future of work here is less and less hours, to suggest we will follow a Japanese model recently invented in the last 40 years is absurd knowing the decadent English.
Without doubt Sue does a good show, it is engaging and entertaining and she slips the gags in, however I want to tentatively make a few suggestions on improvement.
Sue manages to antagonise the viewer with some extremely irritating behaviours.
1, she is a bright and highly intelligent person yet she nearly always arrives at every situation with a preconception which then has to be deconstructed. How about an open mind for the future!
2, the pop concert with the men she deemed it to be sleezy because they were men and yet the geishas were wholesome and honest because they were women. Can you spot the bias!
3, Sue is constantly looking for confirmation of a global sisterhood of women, we saw this with the diving grandmas, there is no such thing and Sue knows this, just as their is no brotherhood of Muslims, black men are not bros, and there is no gay community etc etc, these are all limiting tropes. At most all these so called "communities" are shared interest groups and even that descriptor is stretching it!
4, ridiculous statements, she spoke of the Budha wall in the cemetery being a democratisation in death, on the contrary they were in the wall because they were all poor. Also the future of work here is less and less hours, to suggest we will follow a Japanese model recently invented in the last 40 years is absurd knowing the decadent English.