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BBC Sports Personality of the Year

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AlwaysWild · 29/11/2011 18:52

As you might already be aware, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year has no women in the shortlist.

What you might not know, is the breakdown of which media nominated who and that Nuts and Zoo were part of the process link here Angry

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AlwaysWild · 30/11/2011 10:13

Perhaps they're trying to balance the olympics' 'getting people into sport' agenda with the government's 'get women back in the kitchen' agenda?

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Quodlibet · 30/11/2011 10:11

Fucking ludicrous. And how does this tally with the Olympic-year objective to encourage more young people into sport?

Oh sorry I forgot, only boys play sport.

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AlwaysWild · 29/11/2011 20:20
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AlwaysWild · 29/11/2011 20:08
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LineRunnerLovesSianMassey · 29/11/2011 20:04

I've actually started gurning in frustration.

EdithWeston · 29/11/2011 20:03

No idea! My guess is they added up all the nominees from all the panel publications and those getting the most votes made the short-list.

LineRunnerSaturnalia · 29/11/2011 19:53

I don't understand EdithWeston how those lists were distilled down to a final male-only shortlist. (Thanks for the info btw.)

Do you have insight/analysis? Did the lads' mags have an over-weighted influence?

EdithWeston · 29/11/2011 19:50

Yes, including Nuts and Zoo just doesn't seem right (I could just about see the point of say Men's Health, as at least it's somewhat sporty).

And why is The Voice on the list? But at least it was one of the only two publications that managed three females on their list. Several of the broadsheets and The Sun managed two.

maybenow · 29/11/2011 19:35

yup. totally disgusting that nuts and zoo are listed... simply by virtue of being 'men's magazines Sad

aubergineinautumn · 29/11/2011 19:34

So basically the whole thing is a bunch of 'old boys' sitting around patting themselves on the backs and congratulating themselves for having penises? Who decided who these chosen editors were? This kind of thing is a good example of why we need quotas on boards/ panels etc. they don't decide on who's best but who they most identify with.

EdithWeston · 29/11/2011 19:11

I've already posted on a couple of other threads about this today. All last year's winners were male. For the main prize, in the last 55 years, 13 winners were female.

The method for selecting the short list changed in 2002, and it is done by a panel of sports journalists and editors.

The bias in these awards is probably less than the bias in total sports coverage - the estimate I read earlier is that women's sports account for only 2% of output.

LineRunnerSaturnalia · 29/11/2011 19:01

The whole thing has become a big bloody embarrassment.

I was going to vote for the Manx lad Mark Cavendish but now I think I'm not going to bother and will just ignore the whole thing.