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Anti-Social on R4 now on the girl guide and single sex spaces

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Missproportionate · 10/04/2026 12:47

FYI
Anti-Social on R4 now on the girl guide and single sex spaces

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nauticant · 10/04/2026 13:17

Oliver (Oli) Keen is a journalist, a DJ, and a pansexual.

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Missproportionate · 10/04/2026 13:16

she was brilliant

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ErrolTheDragon · 10/04/2026 13:06

FionaJT · 10/04/2026 12:59

I just caught the last 20 minutes of this and ended up shouting at the radio. I don't know who Oliver was but his perpetual 'calm down dear and think about the poor boys' attitude was utterly enraging.

Likewise. He remained clueless as to why women and girls might want their own spaces. The last bit where Milli raised the practice of girls being paired up with disruptive boys seemed to end with Oliver still thinking it’s fine and good for girls to be forced to be support humans for boys.

ItsCoolForCats · 10/04/2026 13:05

FionaJT · 10/04/2026 12:59

I just caught the last 20 minutes of this and ended up shouting at the radio. I don't know who Oliver was but his perpetual 'calm down dear and think about the poor boys' attitude was utterly enraging.

Yes, he also said female only spaces can be toxic, there are some women that are more manly than him 🙄, and we just need to let boys be boys (to the detrimental of girls basically).

I am biased, but Millie was amazing and extremely persuasive, whereas he just came across as as whiney and ill-informed. He also kept making straw man arguments, e.g. about Mens Shed, when Millie said she has absolutely no problem with men having single sex orgs like this.

snowibunni · 10/04/2026 13:05

Milli Hill was the woman.

I started a similar post in the Radio/Podcast section (didn't think about where I was posting !!)

Entitled male. DJ Oliver

Better than the last time Adam tackled this subject . But Adam does wear his allegiance on his sleeve.

Thistleton · 10/04/2026 13:05

Oliver's contribution was very telling, and illustrative of the gulf between the male and female experience of the world.

KkkIt · 10/04/2026 13:04

I think anti social is a good programme and have the female side a fair hearing but the man was enraging.

Amusingly it went completely against the old stereotypes (which we do know are unfounded) by having a woman put the rational legal case and the man say "I don't bother my pretty head with the law I am just going to play on your emotions."

FionaJT · 10/04/2026 12:59

I just caught the last 20 minutes of this and ended up shouting at the radio. I don't know who Oliver was but his perpetual 'calm down dear and think about the poor boys' attitude was utterly enraging.

DuchessofReality · 10/04/2026 12:59

Fair play to Anti-Social, they do tackle the gender subject quite a bit. I find the framing rather too fluffy for my liking, a bit too 'can't we just be kind', but I felt Milli was given good time here to put her points across and she did it very well.

KkkIt · 10/04/2026 12:59

Poor boys. It's not their fault. Don't be mean to them. They can't help their behaviour but girls who want to keep away from them are just being mean.

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Missproportionate · 10/04/2026 12:55

And I can't see who the speakers are unfortunately. But the guy is not getting any of it.

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