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Woman's Hour presenter is being social media abused for her interview with the CEO of an endometriosis charity and her use of the word woman

When is this madness and bullying going to stop?
Emma was right -well done

I’ve emailed and used an email alias. Obviously not much help alongside half of my address and a phone number, but still.

I know what you mean, but I have just sent my support ( thanks for the link, OP). It feels more important than ever to offer people support against appalling abuse, when they are simply carrying out their professional duty in a fair and rational way, as Emma did.

Yes, the difference is she's not pretending to be a man 🤷‍♀️

The more people who email in to support, the easier it gets for all of us. And the next time. And so on.

I've used my real name, address, number. There is absolutely no reason for me not to - I'm a license payer, I'm a woman, I expect the BBC to represent and respect me.

Good idea to email. I’ll do it later with my burner account .

I’ve also sent positive feedback on bbc. Well done Emma.

Outrageous. This has to stop.

I agree generally. But saying 10% of people have it doubles the prevalence, it doesn't half it. If the accurate statistic is that 10% of women have endometriosis, then it would be correct to say 5% of people have it (since no men have it). If you have a room with 50 men and 50 women and 5 have endometriosis, that's 10% of the women but 5% of the people.

If it was correct that 10% of people have endometriosis (10 people in the room), then it would be 20% of women (10/50).

So saying "10% of people" have endometriosis is meaningless, confusing and, as you say, inaccurate.
Saying 5% of people have endometriosis has the benefit of being correct, but is still stripping the statistic of an important element.

They went for a statistic that was misleading and confusing, as well as inaccurate. As well as just being stupid, because clearly what they've done is effectively just find and replace every instance of the word women with the word people, without looking at what it does to the information.

I don’t believe she refers to herself as ‘him’ or ‘a man’ and call la the charity’s users ‘people’ (and nasty names), or declare that 20 woman worldwide have prostate cancer.

I caught some of the interview and couldn't leave my car until it ended. She was amazingly strong and determined in getting to the root of things.

This charity - working for women's health should already understand that erasing the word 'woman' is not the way to go. It just seems so very odd.

I've heard Emma being really effective in helping interviewees who are nervous too. She got the best out of them!

It is also true that she does not publicly wish some prostate cancer sufferers in hell (because they fail to share some of her beliefs).

Particularly ironic that men were referred to as men in the interview. Emma did very well and I hope she stays strong.

I think we could reword that to say ‘Emma Barnett is the victim of an orchestrated Twitter? pile on by a small minority of social justice warriors’.

My brain is mush today.

Either way, it is inaccurate and detrimental to getting women the help that they need.

I have emailed my support for Emma too. with my real name

Just emailed BBC - thanks for the link.

I've emailed the BBC with my support too. Real name and address as well. Emma wasn't afraid to ask the questions we want answered and I'm not going to be bullied either.

I have also emailed the BBC to support and thank Emma for challenging this nonsense.

Well done Emma. I hope the interview and the subsequent discussions make a lot more people pause and think. This appointment was a clear example of women being mocked in plain sight.

190 million women and 29 men. FFS . Womb like tissue means exactly that. It’s a female condition.

I do hope supporters of this charity think twice about donating - there must be other charities that support endometriosis without peddling this nonsense.

The CEO is clearly prioritising this over the actual work of the charity.

It should be pointed out that this is an absolutely minuscule charity. Just over £8k revenue in 2022 and £2k in 2021. Lots of PTAs take that kind of money, but of course that’s just mum stuff and almost all the tedious work is done by women, so no-one needs to worry about that!

I am not sure how they are paying a CEO anything at all. But perhaps the CEO is doing it for the CEO’s own reasons? 🤔

PS. I often comment on BBC articles that make it unclear exactly who they are talking about on the manly and universal topics of menstruation, menopause, breastfeeding or gynaecological health conditions. Will listen to the link later.

I think this is all very sad. It’s obviously quite a small charity (otherwise they would have appointed a separate CEO some time ago). Jodie clearly cares immensely about the cause and must have poured an immense amount of time and energy into it. But she’s put it at risk with one ill-thought through decision and she and the charity are obviously poorly equipped to manage the situation (on the evidence of the interview). This will have a negative impact on the charity and its beneficiaries.

I haven’t looked in depth, but there is also Endometriosis UK and The Endometriosis Foundation.

She is a) not claiming to be a man and 2) not erasing the word "man" and iii) not claiming that because 20 women in the history of the planet gave has prostrate cancer, it means it is a women's disease and that is why nobody is to say it's a men problem

Thank for posting the link - I would not get it to transfer.

I work in Healthcare and a recent patient told me that I just had to realise she was a woman because she had XXY - ie, 2 X chromosomes just like me. This is a well recognised condition and I had done a PSA blood test which was highly suspicious of prostate cancer and she wanted to go to a female prostate clinic.
I seriously give up on this insane ideology.