Uplifting Games for women

THE London 2012 Olympics carries a lot of positive messages for girls and women.

In fact, it may, more than any other major TV spectacle this year, be one of the most gender-positive TV moments of the year.

Right from Danny Boyle’s highly politicised history of Britain for the opening ceremony, a tone has been set. Shoe-horning in the Suffragettes was one thing, but beaming British TV’s first lesbian kiss (from Brookside in 1993) into the living rooms of countries where such acts are completely illegal and severely punishable was certainly a moment.