Twitter has got itself very excited today over #realmenoftheyear and #realwomenoftheyear. This all kicked off due to those rather silly articles on rather silly websites which list their men and women of the year because they haven't got any real news to report.

I'm sorry, but I have no patience for any of this bullshit. The criteria used to draw up both lists reflect the distorted priorities of those who would sell us news, not what's actually important to our daily lives. If we drew up a better set of criteria, based on what really makes a difference to people's lives, and applied it to the entire world, rather than just those few individuals (mostly men) which the media consider interesting, then we wouldn't need two lists. And we would probably find that it would be men struggling to get on the 'proper' list.

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