On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better

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a b Ramachandran, Naman (7 March 2023). "Kate Winslet, Kit Connor, Billie Piper in the Mix at Royal Television Society Program Awards Nominations". Variety. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023 . Retrieved 7 March 2023. The book is full of interesting examples. Theater etiquette itself (think not clapping in the middle of a performance) was invented out of whole cloth by the Victorians. It served to distinguish the "civilized" behavior of colonizers from the ecstatic participation sometimes found in the performance art of colonized people. Kirsty Sedgman shows how power dynamics and the social biases involved have resulted in a wide acceptance of what people should and shouldn't do, but they create discriminatory realities and amount to a societal fa�ade that is dangerous for genuine social progress. From taking the knee to breastfeeding in public, from neighbourhood vigilantism to the Colston Four-and exploring ideas around ethics, justice, society, and equality along the way-Sedgman explores notions of civility throughout history up to now. Am I Being Unreasonable Gets Second Series". Comedy.co.uk. 28 October 2022. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023 . Retrieved 21 February 2023. BAFTA Television 2022: The Winners". 29 March 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023 . Retrieved 1 August 2023.

From manners to etiquette to civil obedience and disobedience, this book examines the idiosyncrasies, prejudices, and biases that make up the modern social contract, and boldly erects new guideposts to help us navigate our complex social world. It asks us to think critically about who gets to decide where the lines are drawn, and it challenges us to ask when it’s reasonable to expect other people to conform to our value systems or even our sense of propriety, and when that might actually be an unreasonable thing to do. Cooper was nominated for best female performance in a comedy programme, Rush for best male performance in a comedy programme, and the programme for best scripted comedy at the British Academy Television Awards, announced on 22 March 2023. [15] Year The show was first broadcast on BBC One on 23 September 2022, with all episodes being made available in the UK on the BBC iPlayer on the same day. [6] BBC Studios have international distribution rights. [7] The series was originally meant to begin a week earlier, but was delayed, as were many other scheduled programmes, because of the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the resulting period of mourning. [8] BAFTA Television 2023: The Nominations & Winners". 16 March 2023. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023 . Retrieved 1 August 2023. The trouble is, what’s ‘reasonable’ to one person is outrageous to another. Is it okay to let children play in the garden while others are working from home? To do your makeup on a train, or recline your seat on an aeroplane? What’s the right way to breastfeed? To protect your neighbourhood? To protest against injustice and oppression? In a world where we all think we’re being reasonable, how can we figure out what’s right?

BAFTA Television 2023: The Nominations & Winners". 16 March 2023. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023 . Retrieved 1 August 2023.

Guardian Faber acquired World All Languages and audio rights from Jaime Marshall at J. P. Marshall Literary Agency. Publication is scheduled for 4 August 2022. a b c d Goldbart, Max (29 March 2023). "Kate Winslet Scoops Big Acting Prize At RTS Awards". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023 . Retrieved 30 March 2023. BBC One - Am I Being Unreasonable?". BBC. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022 . Retrieved 24 September 2022. In On Being Unreasonable, Sedgman shows us how we can develop new rules of engagement in a world where people disagree on what constitutes appropriate behaviour but in which everyone believes they are abiding by ‘common sense’. Should women not do their makeup on trains? Is there an appropriate way to breastfeed in public? Is there a right way and a wrong way to protest against prejudice and discrimination? The show has changed my life’ … Dustin Demri-Burns and Rush in Am I Being Unreasonable? Photograph: Alistair Heap/Boffola Pictures

Daisy May Cooper's new comedy-thriller being filmed in Bristol". Bristol Post. 1 November 2021. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023 . Retrieved 21 February 2023. Kirsty Sedgman shows how power dynamics and the social biases involved have resulted in a wide acceptance of what people should and shouldn't do, but they create discriminatory realities and amount to a societal façade that is dangerous for genuine social progress. From taking the knee to breastfeeding in public, from neighbourhood vigilantism to the Colston Four--and exploring ideas around ethics, justice, society, and equality along the way--Sedgman explores notions of civility throughout history up to now.

Apparently kindred spirits … Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli in Am I Being Unreasonable? Photograph: Alistair Heap/Boffola Pictures The episode follows events from the previous episodes from Jen’s perspective. She had lost her job and had to move to a new town with her son. She works as a housecleaner for an old woman who confuses her for the old cleaner, Katya. At her son’s first day of school she meets Nic, and is grateful when she helps her. She looks her up online to see pictures of her with Dan, and is surprised to find Dan on Tinder. She records the evidence and calls Dan out for cheating. She invites herself to Nic's house to tell her about Dan, but is surprised when Nic tells her of her affair with Alex. Still, she admires Nic, buying the same coat as her and watching her wedding video. Title, first look and further casting announced for new comedy thriller Am I Being Unreasonable? starring Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 February 2022 . Retrieved 4 September 2022. Am I Being Unreasonable? is a 6-part British comedy-thriller series produced by Boffola Pictures and Lookout Point and written by, and starring, Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli. The series was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 26 September 2022. The series premiered in the United States on Hulu on 11 April 2023. A second series was commissioned by the BBC in October 2022.So this is not to say that Sedgman wants us to abandon reason. She is the first to admit: the ability to improvise an acceptable way to behave in a novel social situation is an irreducible requirement of our ability to live together at all. We all make choices every day, trying to be "reasonable". And some rules are necessary for some people to be included in public life at all (think about rules to aid people with disabilities). The problem arises when the use of the word becomes unmoored from the actual social good. We should be skeptical, Sedgman thinks, of appeals to common sense. We should interrogate how such norms actually came about, the purpose they are actually serving, and what really justifies them, if anything. Examining an unexamined appeal to common sense often reveals that the driving force is merely the interests of the powerful. He always, he says, knew that he was different from average-height children, though he noticed it more as he got older. His family were a part of Little People UK, the charity and community set up by Davis and his wife, Samantha. “Sometimes, with dwarfism, you feel as if you are the only one, and when you go there, there are so many other people. It’s lovely to see. You don’t realise how many people are living life the same way as you.” Ritman, Alex (29 March 2023). "Kit Connor, Kate Winslet Among Winners of Royal Television Society Program Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023 . Retrieved 30 March 2023.

Regarding the breastfeeding example, there is a more concrete reason why mothers should be allowed to breastfeed in public- they'd be completely excluded from public life otherwise. The men have no such more descriptive justification behind their appeal to the "reasonable". The question is what work this appeal does in the conversation, versus the work that could be done by more descriptive justifications. Daisy May Cooper is a paranoid mum in 'Am I Being Unreasonable?' trailer". NME.com. September 2022. Archived from the original on 4 September 2022 . Retrieved 4 September 2022. Filming took place in 2021 at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol and on location in Gloucestershire. [4]Am I Being Unreasonable? has many points in its favour. Cooper remains an absurdly brilliant comic performer who is capable of heartbreaking moments of vulnerability, as she showed in This Country. Hizli is an equally fine actor and carries the dramatic scenes particularly well, where Cooper seems less comfortable. And what a gift they have in 13-year-old Rush, who has the comic chops and emotional range of an actor twice his age and the kind of chemistry with Cooper that is an absolute joy to watch.