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On a related note, can I just say that the term “doctor’s wives” annoys the hell out of me? It’s completely patronising and sexist. - Bec

Are you, like Bec, pissed off by the use of that outdated, rather meaningless, sexist and offensive term “Doctor’s Wives?” Then why not check out this new offensive demographic descriptor:

John Black: They will be typically looking through ebay on the web at the same time as they’re checking on the latest blogs and news services on the web at the same time as they’re maybe channel surfing through cable TV shows to see how to cook the best dessert later that night. I mean the Internet is their first port of call, and they’re the first types of people to become dependent upon as I said, their Blackberries, hence the term Blackberry Bolsheviks.

From “Politics on the Internet” on Radio National’s Background Briefing.

More context over the fold.

Demographers are fascinated. Ten years ago, John Black was a Labor Senator, but these days he runs a computer demographics company in Brisbane. He’s been watching one group he calls the Blackberry Bolsheviks.

John Black: And that is a group which is strongly female, which is overwhelmingly professional, which is well paid, which is often salaried, which works in finance, property, business services, also they will be your suburban lawyers, and doctors and accountants.

Sharona Coutts: Is this the group otherwise known as the doctors’ wives?

John Black: Well the people in the Coalition nicknamed them the doctors’ wives, but in fact the doctors are the wives.

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