Hi Girls,
I've been away since the programme, so this is my first chance to make a comment about it, but Porscha has said just about everything I was going to, so, I'll just agree with her eloquent comments, rather than re-stating them in another way.
One thing, Porscha, that I do disagree with you on though, is your comment about Jan going into the Para's to try to "prove" her masculinity. You think that this may not really have been the case.
True, it may not be, but, speaking from my own, personal, history, I too, did something similar in my teens and early 20's.
For me, as a musician, my work was Non-gender specific, but my pastimes were probably as "male" as I could find. My main "participation" sport was Rugby, with all the macho/male aggression inherent in probably the most physical contact sport around!
For myself, I know that my reasons for playing rugby, were purely to try to deny, to myself, that I wasn't the "macho-male" people expected me to be!
But, apart from that slight disagreement, I can only, whole-heartedly, echo your comments!
Hugs,
Angela. xxx.
What matter if I stand alone?
I wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap where it has sown,
And garner up it's fruit of tears.