Hoodiephobia, Or We Don’t Lie to Google
6th November 2009
Recently a female documentary film maker was saved from a group of iron bar-wielding “feral girls” by the bike-riding mayor of London (I’ve always wanted to write the headline for the story).
Said Lord Mayor is Boris Johnson, perhaps the strangest elected politician since Traficante went to prison.
The Guardian piece quotes research by the group Women in Journalism back in March as finding that, among other things, 79% of adults are more wary of teenage boys than they were a year ago, and that the most commonly used descriptions of such boys in the UK press were ‘yobs’ and ‘thugs’ followed by ‘sick’, ‘feral’, ‘hoodies’ and ‘louts’ (PDF version of the report is here.)
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.