Are the BBC about to leave Stonewall?

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According to ex-BBC staffer Ben Hunte, yes:

www.vice.com/en/article/akgxm5/bbc-expected-to-quit-stonewalls-lgbtq-diversity-programme

Oh, I do hope so! 🤞

If things are really as bad at the BBC as the interviewee suggests, it doesn't seem as if being in the Stonewall programme all this time has achieved much. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@NewlyGranny

If things are really as bad at the BBC as the interviewee suggests, it doesn't seem as if being in the Stonewall programme all this time has achieved much. 🤷🏼‍♀️

IKR? Bit of an own goal, that.

I"d like to believe it is true, but given the standards of Hunte's journalism I will wait to hear from a vaguely credible source.

God the quotes in that article were beyond hyperbole.

'In further evidence that Ben Hunte can't write for shit he used, 'super scared' as his quote, thus undermining the very sense of impending threat he intended to create and giving the impression that his 'source' was a work experience student.'

My brain apparently has an unconscious hyperbole filter, because I read that as "quite scared" the first few times...

I'm not giving him the clicks, but this sort of rumour headline sounds like it's devised to instigate a social media pile-on to try to head the BBC off at the pass.

I do hope so.

And I’d love to be the stats geek who looks at the CBA vs ‘investment’ of ££ and staff time - and the brand damage done.

Oh yes, I’d love to get my teeth into that project. I’d do graphs and charts and everything!

I don't blame the BBC, or any other organisation, for joining Stonewall when they may have believed it was genuinely working for equality. But its present role in trying to overturn women's rights has been known for so long that there's no excuse now.

Super scared, why ffs 🙄 Surprised the standard go to 'unsafe' wasn't pulled out of the bag too.

This organisation are not owed anyone's money or anyone's time. They do not have the monopoly. There are other resources for ensuring equality, it's not them or nothing.

But yes I'll wait to see if it comes from another news source!

Scared my backside. I’ve known a few people who have worked at the beeb and it’s very ‘gay friendly’. No one bats an eye. So scared of what? Missing out wasting time doing ‘stonewall stuff’ and bullying women?

Wasn't there some advert campaign years back about "what's the worst that could happen?" Trying Dr Pepper, I think.

Need something like that to explore what might happen if the BBC were to leave the Stonewall programme.

'Super scared'.

Apparently the statement was released by CBEEBIES, and no one was around to use grown up words.

'If things are really as bad at the BBC as the interviewee suggests, it doesn't seem as if being in the Stonewall programme all this time has achieved much'

Yup. Obviously time to try something different that may work better. And this time not get involved with a partisan political lobby that biases you when you have a duty to provide service to the whole of your (captive) customers and not just the ones you politically agree with.

What sliding back?

Does that certificate in the staffroom have some magic powers that means that the second they don't renew membership its like shaun of the dead and everyone walks around like zombies am forgets how to behave?

If I'd spent thousands of pounds and hours of my time.filling out paperwork only for everyone to forget everything so instantly, I'd be questioning the quality of any training given tbh.

Me thinks they are more worried they will.prove the whole thing unnecessary more like. Amd that they have pissed away thousands for no reason

Maybe I could make a fortune consulting with them about 'succession planning' and 'ensuring the skills stay embedded' and other such wankery if that would be such news to them.

Scared was when Saville, Johnathan King and Stuart Hall were prowling the corridors at Beeb Towers.

Scared was when Ed Murrow broadcast live from the BH Balcony while the bombs were falling.

Scared was Frank Gardiner begging for his life after being shot. Wynford Vaughan Thomas on the Normandy Beaches. Richard Dimbleby at Belsen. Steve Evans inside the World Trade Center on 9/11.

When Dorries says the BBC might not be around in ten years, she might have a point.

Ben must be glad he left the BBC before it became too terrifying to work there.

I do hope that news is true, sounds like there won’t be an official statement though which is a shame

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In Mail

Sorry Auntie, but as an habitual Mumsnet lurker I must break cover to point out that I've been super scared for your journalistic standards for as long as you've been signed up to that self-serving intellectually masturbatory excuse for an "equalities package". To the extent that I now get most of my breaking news on this topic from Mumsnet.

I find I very much prefer their Op-eds, too....

Talcum X seems a tad rattled too

twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1446104561979121665

Super-scared they won't be able to bully colleagues into gender submission, more like.

Omg what planet is he on?

‘Owen Jones 🌹
@OwenJones84
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@OwenJones84
In the years to come, there will be films and plays made about the anti-trans horror show we're living through now.’

"In the years to come, there will be films and plays made about the anti-trans horror show we're living through now.

"And some of the people who will shed tears and give standing ovations when they're made are saying nothing now. And that is not good enough."

Ah, Owen. Never one for understatement. Bless.