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BBC Gender Stereotyping

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TimeforaNNChange · 16/08/2016 09:39

Grr.

BBC GBBO promotional photos released today.

All the male competitors mixing blue icing. All the female mixing pink icing.

It doesn't seem like a big deal, but really?

It's just a drip, drip, drip of stereotyping every day, everywhere we look. Blue for boys, pink for girls.

Even in a show that has done wonders for breaking down gender stereotypes in the past.

Rant over.

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WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid · 17/08/2016 22:25

I'll be honest - I just can't get het up about pink icing for the women and blue for the men.

But the Apprentice's none sense where the split the teams into male and female really pisses me off.

Egosumquisum · 17/08/2016 06:17

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geekaMaxima · 16/08/2016 21:42

I'm aware of both points. I still think it's a pointless cliché

That's okay. I think deliberate use of a cliché is a highly effective way to be ironically critical. But hey ho Grin

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 16/08/2016 20:53

It was sarcasm. And it wasn't directed at you, lass

I'm aware of both points. I still think it's a pointless cliché

JacquettaWoodville · 16/08/2016 19:52

Good idea -they do plenty of school trips there and it's linked in with Tim Peake and their rocket seed project so very schools focussed.

SpeakNoWords · 16/08/2016 19:48

I wonder if it's worth posting that on their Twitter page and asking them why they've chosen to represent the astronauts that way?

mobile.twitter.com/rhsschools

I would, but I don't do Twitter.

Egosumquisum · 16/08/2016 19:37

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Xenophile · 16/08/2016 17:57

I wonder if it would be possible for the people who accuse women of "over thinking" everything because thinking too much might overheat our poor little minds? to put together a list of those things we're allowed to discuss.

In that way, we won't clutter up the feminist section of this forum with our obviously ridiculous analyses of the way that hundreds of small things make being a woman in society far more annoying and difficult than being a man is. (with the obvious exception to that universal rule)

geekaMaxima · 16/08/2016 17:38

Sorry but the old "head tilt" manoeuvre rarely enhances the strength of the argument.

It was sarcasm. And it wasn't directed at you, lass.

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TimeforaNNChange · 16/08/2016 16:41

ego. I don't think it's the power on MN but the BBC FB pages were deluged with comments so I wouldn't be surprised if it was pester power/public opinion that changed it.

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TimeforaNNChange · 16/08/2016 16:40

speak The one on the BBC One Facebook page - click and revolve to see the contestants.

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TimeforaNNChange · 16/08/2016 16:37

So they went and refilmed the whole animation again with new colours based on complaints? In one day?

Oh, really? No , of course not!

It's all edited afterwards - the colours of their clothing, the bowls, icing etc all changed before publication.

That's why it pissed me off so much, the colours were deliberately added afterwards - chances are, when the photos were taken the icing was all the same colour!

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SpeakNoWords · 16/08/2016 16:33

Which animation is it? I have only seen the still pictures.

Last season all the contestants had pink icing on the promo shots.

deydododatdodontdeydo · 16/08/2016 16:32

So they went and refilmed the whole animation again with new colours based on complaints? In one day?

Egosumquisum · 16/08/2016 16:26

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TimeforaNNChange · 16/08/2016 16:25

They've changed it ! The BBC1 revolving animation now has green and purple icing as well as pink and blue !

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LassWiTheDelicateAir · 16/08/2016 16:12

I don't care tbh. And posts like " this is othering women" won't make me care.

I don't watch the programme despite doing a lot of baking and being very good at it but blue is not a colour I would use in icing (except on my Union Jack cupcakes during the Scottish referendum to annoy my insufferable Nat supporting in -laws)

BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 16/08/2016 16:05

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LassWiTheDelicateAir · 16/08/2016 15:48

then do you not have more important things to do than post on this thread?
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Sorry but the old "head tilt" manoeuvre rarely enhances the strength of the argument.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 16/08/2016 15:45

It's just labelling women as "other", thus reinforcing sexism

No it is not labelling women as other ; it is labelling women as women and men as men. Whether that is relevant is a completely different argument but this crap that anything "for girls" is automatically inferior is tedious and wrong.

deydododatdodontdeydo · 16/08/2016 14:23

@vesuvia
Thanks for the response. Don't get me wrong, I think gendered colouring of items is a bad thing. I just didn't think it necessarily followed that pink=bad (to me they are just colours), but I take your point.

Atlas15 · 16/08/2016 14:16

No a lot of Caribbean men use it.

JacquettaWoodville · 16/08/2016 14:11

Atlas

That would be because palmers has a brand reputation in preventing stretch marks, don't you think?

BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 16/08/2016 14:09

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