My sleep routine has been pretty much all over the place for years now. Mostly I sleep during the day and am up and about most of the night.
Much of the time I do watch some Documentaries on those irrelevant Sky History Channels or even some of the true Crime programmes that are very much a constant now as part of their programming schedule.
They irritate me greatly sometimes.
Documentaries are supposed to be factual. Right? So how come many of them, but not all, still peddle ancient myths, rumours and lies as truth?
For some unknown reason they seem to be having a lot of programs recently about the Suffragette movement. Don't know why and am assuming it's some sort of anniversary that I'm not aware of.
They are nearly always celebratory in nature. You can imagine the sort of thing?
I have a few problems with that in general.
Were the aims of the movement justified? Absolutely. 100%.
But should we really be celebrating an organisation that was happy to use bombing. arson and various other violent methods as legitimate? Not in my world. No. Tell the history yes but please don't glorify it.
One thing in particular they get wrong time and time again.
The death of Emily Davison.
And yes in your mind already is the thought that that was the woman who threw herself in front of the King's horse in an apparent suicidal move to attract attention to the cause.
Only she didn't.
Five minutes research will clearly show that it was an accident and she did not, as commonly perceived, commit deliberate suicide.
Modern technology has slowed the footage down and analysed it thoroughly. She was, in fact, trying to place a sash of some sort around the horses neck as it rode past and couldn't get out the way quickly enough and was sadly killed in the process.
But still the fact checkers don't seem to able to do a quick Google search on these programs and are still telling the old myth over and over and over again.
Not good and not professional.
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