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Feminist Discrimination

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Vicky1990 · 12/11/2017 22:13

On radio 4 woman's hour the two presenters, Jane Garvey and Jenny Murrey declare themselves as feminist, and as such many of the items discussed discriminate against men.
Is this fair as the BBC is supposed to fair, impartial, and not to discriminate on grounds of gender.
Half the population has no voice on the BBC as it is Male, this does not seem to be in keeping with impartiality to me, what do you think ?.

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Ttbb · 13/11/2017 09:32

It's called positive discrimination. It's what happens when people are too stupid/lazy to deal with issues faced by minority groups and cover up the inequality by having things like boardroom quotas, female only scholarships (where no equivalent exists for men), tokenism etc.

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 13/11/2017 09:30

Maybe depending on who they have on the title should be changed daily

So womans hour (or 45 minutes) and then for the length of time a man is on or they are talking about men so womans 30 minutes, or womans 2.5 minutes

I think that could work...

hipsterfun · 13/11/2017 09:26

With a dismal 15 Minute Drama chaser.

NonStopDisco · 13/11/2017 08:39

women talking... for a whole hour

Well, three-quarters of one!

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 13/11/2017 08:32

If women had a voice in the other 23 hours it wouldn't be called 'womens hour',

Thats a very fair point

Datun · 13/11/2017 08:23

How does feminism discriminate against men?

One example would do.

AlternativeTentacle · 13/11/2017 07:20

as such many of the items discussed discriminate against men

Can you give us say 10 examples of this?

ladyballs · 13/11/2017 07:16
Grin
FizzyWaterAndElderflower · 13/11/2017 06:47

I'll just leave this here:

buzzfeed

DJBaggySmalls · 13/11/2017 01:17

If women had a voice in the other 23 hours it wouldn't be called 'womens hour', would it? Womens Hour frequently interview men and talk about issues that concern men. You'd know that if you'd ever listened in.

Wtfdoipick · 13/11/2017 00:54

Can I ask you to think about the name of the show and really think about why it is named as it is.

KickAssAngel · 13/11/2017 00:43

From your writing, I infer that:
sentence 1 is saying that Garvey/Murrey discriminate against men because they want women to have equal opportunities to men.
sentence 3 is saying the BBC is 100% male, therefore half the population is excluded.

Those two sentences directly contradict each other and neither one of them holds any truth, that's what I think.

hipsterfun · 13/11/2017 00:37

Half the population has no voice on the BBC as it is Male

ROFL.

WhatWouldGenghisDo · 12/11/2017 22:21

I suppose the problem with women talking on the radio for a whole hour is that's a whole hour where men don't get to talk

Hmm
AppleKatie · 12/11/2017 22:21

0/10 for logic, humour and writing style.

Perhaps your wife could help with your written English next time?

(Is that the sort of response you were looking for?)

DullAndOld · 12/11/2017 22:19

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OddBoots · 12/11/2017 22:17

I think the male voice is very much dominant in the majority of the other BBC programming as well as in the pay scales.

LaurieFairyCake · 12/11/2017 22:16

Feminist discussion does not discriminate against men

Women’s hour is not 50% of the bbc

You’re talking shash Hmm

AlternativeTentacle · 12/11/2017 22:16

huh?