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Masterchef

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wem · 24/01/2012 12:54

I've only watched a couple of episodes of this series and I won't be watching any more after the one I saw last night.

They've started this series in a different way to normal, with a blind tasting test. In both of the two episodes I've watched so far this has resulted in loads more women getting through to the first round than normal. I noticed this and thought it was interesting and although it showed up previous discrimination, at least it was a positive step.

Then at the end of the episode I watched last night they sent home two women to whom they had both given positive comments and pointed out errors, and kept in a man whom they had totally slated. One of the judges even seemed to shout at him in frustration at how badly he'd done. After they kept him in I realised this shout was because he couldn't bear to send him home and have, god forbid, more than 50% women go through to the next round, even though the opposite happens every single other series.

I know this is fairly trivial, and probably all in the editing, but it's pissed me off and I won't be watching it again in protest at the blatant discrimination they showed.

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HazleNutt · 24/01/2012 13:17

I was watching the French one last year and same thing happened. There were always 3 women getting the best comments and winning all challenges, but for the final, they kept just one of them and a man, who had been totally average and rarely got any better comments than "fine". I'm still wondering if I'm just paranoid and seeing ghosts everywhere.

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