{"id":419,"date":"2012-11-27T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=432e6618f41dd81ad2ddfcb3919de034"},"modified":"2014-11-25T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T08:24:51","slug":"anne-oldman-latest-in-a-long-line-of-victims-of-bi-erasure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2012\/11\/anne-oldman-latest-in-a-long-line-of-victims-of-bi-erasure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Oldman: Latest in a long line of victims of bi erasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/?source=http:\/\/catvix.blogspot.co.uk\" >Guardian<\/a>? I was only two weekends ago defending your editorial integrity.<script type=\"text\/javascript\">   var _gaq = _gaq || [];   _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-20463356-2']);   _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);    (function() {     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true;     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);   })();  <\/script><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then you spring bi erasure on me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/%22Herbal%20tea-drinking%20lesbian%20caricature%20Anne%20Oldman%22.%20Really%20@guardian?%20I%20could%20have%20sworn%20she%20said%20she%20was%20BISEXUAL%20http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2012\/nov\/16\/suranne-jones-crickley-hall?source=http:\/\/catvix.blogspot.co.uk\" >recent interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/name\/nm1013087\/?source=http:\/\/catvix.blogspot.co.uk\" >Surrane Jones<\/a>, her character in <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt2240991\/?source=http:\/\/catvix.blogspot.co.uk\" >&#8216;A Touch of Cloth&#8217;<\/a> is described as &#8220;herbal tea-drinking lesbian caricature Anne Oldman&#8221; even though the character states in the TV show itself that she is in fact a bisexual.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have already reported this factual error to your readers&#8217; editor, in an email dated 20th November. I haven&#8217;t received an auto-response so I don&#8217;t even know if you&#8217;ve received it, hence this post.<\/p>\n<p>Try again please.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Edited to add:<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian responded to my comment (on 4th March 2013) about this article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>Hannah says that <span class=\"il\">Suranne<\/span> referred to the  character, Anne, as a lesbian, in terms of telling her she would be  getting a new girlfriend in the next series, and that there would be  more &#8220;lesbian ringtones&#8221;.&nbsp; Hannah took this to refer to a running joke  in the show, where each time her phone rings a song by an iconic lesbian  artist such as KD Lang is heard.&nbsp; Anne is in a live-in relationship  with a woman in the show and Hannah thinks the &#8220;bi&#8221; reference is one of  the many puns, such as the one you cited, there to get a laugh:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you&#8217;re a lesbian?&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Bi, Jack.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;OK, I&#8217;m going!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So  in that sense, and primarily as a joke, she does define herself as  bisexual.&nbsp; She is, however, only seen having relations with women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, that <i>would <\/i>be bi erasure then Guardian? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/?source=http:\/\/catvix.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>? I was only two weekends ago defending your editorial integrity.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then you spring bi erasure on me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/%22Herbal%20tea-drinking%20lesbian%20caricature%20Anne%20Oldman%22.%20Really%20@guardian?%20I%20could%20have%20sworn%20she%20said%20she%20was%20BISEXUAL%20http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2012\/nov\/16\/suranne-jones-crickley-hall?source=http:\/\/catvix.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">recent interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/name\/nm1013087\/?source=http:\/\/catvix.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Surrane Jones<\/a>, her character in <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt2240991\/?source=http:\/\/catvix.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;A Touch of Cloth&#8217;<\/a> is described as &#8220;herbal tea-drinking lesbian caricature Anne Oldman&#8221; even though the character states in the TV show itself that she is in fact a bisexual.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have already reported this factual error to your readers&#8217; editor, in an email dated 20th November. I haven&#8217;t received an auto-response so I don&#8217;t even know if you&#8217;ve received it, hence this post.<\/p>\n<p>Try again please.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Edited to add:<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian responded to my comment (on 4th March 2013) about this article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hannah says that <span>Suranne<\/span> referred to the  character, Anne, as a lesbian, in terms of telling her she would be  getting a new girlfriend in the next series, and that there would be  more &#8220;lesbian ringtones&#8221;.&nbsp; Hannah took this to refer to a running joke  in the show, where each time her phone rings a song by an iconic lesbian  artist such as KD Lang is heard.&nbsp; Anne is in a live-in relationship  with a woman in the show and Hannah thinks the &#8220;bi&#8221; reference is one of  the many puns, such as the one you cited, there to get a laugh:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you&#8217;re a lesbian?&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Bi, Jack.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;OK, I&#8217;m going!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So  in that sense, and primarily as a joke, she does define herself as  bisexual.&nbsp; She is, however, only seen having relations with women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, that <i>would <\/i>be bi erasure then Guardian? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,133,135,138,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-erasure","category-bisexuality","category-diatribe","category-guardian","category-touch-of-cloth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}