You'll never believe how BBC York decided to celebrate International Women's Day...

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Apologies for the clickbaity thread title, but I wanted you to all guess and then be proved right.

They did a special feature about men, to redress the balance.
York Feminists blog about it here.

BBC radio York, you've let women down, you've let York down, and most of all, you've let yourselves down.

I've complained to the BBC. It would be good if others did too...

For crying out loud...

The original twitter post about the show is here btw. Some hilarious comments!

mobile.twitter.com/BBCYork/status/707123445616795650

The comments are funny.

What WILL they do on diabetics /epilepsy awareness day?

Oh fgs. This is ridiculous. The bbc has form for this sort of thing...
Anyone remember pandagate?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16203296

[Bangs head against wall]

FFS. Because of course women get so much more attention and recognition than men the rest of the time

Has anyone actually told BBC York that there's an International Men's Day that probably would have been more appropriate for that feature? Or are they planning on celebrating women then instead?

Clearly not. I'm guessing they've also failed to notice how overrrepresented men are in the media generally.

They do know about Men's Day - it's mentioned in the blog. Apparently we should make more of it.

Has Alan Partridge moved from Radio Norfolk to BBC York?

It is EXACTLY what Alan would do for IWD, isn't it?

Love the blog post! It was slightly disconcerting that the advert at the bottom, for me, was for the IPL Hair Removal system! But perhaps that helps illustrate the post quite nicely:

Ladies, don't worry about sport, politics, science or inventions, you just need to ensure your underarm hair is removed .