At present there is a "here be the dangers of keeping bad company" quality to the production, with the focus firmly on gone-wrong males.
In the first scenario related to cheating and stealing regarding a student who cheats in an examination, from the 456 students who stated their gender (205 males and 251 females), 356 (78%) responded that the student in the scenario is wrong, 145 (71%) male and 211 (84%) female (95% CI: -21, -6) (Table 6).
In the first scenario related to lying regarding a student who omits and/or adds data points to show the desired results when plotting a graph for an experiment, from the 450 students who stated their gender (202 males and 248 females), 289 (64%) responded that the student in the scenario is wrong, 129 (64%) male and 160 (65%) female (Table 4).
In the first scenario related to plagiarism regarding a student who copies verbatim from the internet and other published sources and lists them as references, from the 452 students who stated their gender (202 males and 250 females), 204 (45%) responded that the student in the scenario is wrong, 86 (43%) male and 118 (47%) female (Table 2).
It is wrong to toss male chicks, alive and conscious, into a meat grinder, as happens in the egg industry.
This looks like it could be a female version of Very Bad Things: a bachelorette party goes very wrong when the male stripper turns up dead.
"She wants you to think that she's a progressive, but on the issues New Yorkers care most about, she is always on the wrong side," a male narrator intones.
In True Detective's defence, this timeworn tale of girls gone wrong and egotistical male cops is the perfectly at home in it's claustrophobic Louisiana setting where 1995 could be 1955.
Assuming some women candidates for the NCT job, assuming they existed, had qualifications that rivalled Mr Wilkie's, one notes that equality law does exempt some occupations, for instance in gender-specific services, religions, political shortlists, even acting, where a particular casting might look as wrong as a male Sheila Kitzinger.
The reality could also be that the studios are just backing the wrong kind of male actors – focussing perhaps too much on looks.
Labour said it was wrong to say male candidates would be deselected because there is no preferential treatment for sitting councillors when choosing local election candidates.
