Fairness & Freedom

There is a new app out called ‘Gender Avenger Tally app’.

It lets users create gender-focused pie charts (on anything) that they can share on Twitter and Facebook.

Like how many women are in federal parliament, or how many female toilets are in the pub, or how many of the wombats at the zoo are girls (my daughter once asked me this), etc.

The point of the app is to share the outrage at the unfairness of gender imbalances in order to drive the movements for changes that address these unfairnesses.

What we also need is an accompanying app that creates pie charts that highlight the prevalence of proposed legislative solutions to issues labelled as unfair, whether these are gender-based, racially-based or otherwise.

It is possible that the price of fairness will be our freedom. It could be a case of ‘careful what you wish for’ or more succinctly, ‘be careful how you try to fix those issues that outrage you so much’.