How the BBC excludes women's voices

[Mollyollydolly]

Good essay in The Critic about how the BBC excludes women voices like Helen Joyce, yet is quite happy to let Andrew Tate be interviewed. Well worth a read, I'm ex BBC so it resonates with me. I think it's mainly down to cowardice rather than ideology. They're just not brave enough.

"Helen Joyce says the interest in her dried up instantly after an interview on Woman’s Hour in 2020, before her book was published, when she said what she describes as “all the sorts of things you aren’t allowed to say on the BBC” about biological sex. She understands that higher representations have been made internally, in an attempt to end the blackout, but to no avail. The Woman’s Hour Twitter account has at times been inundated with requests to bid Helen on the issue of women’s sex-based rights. People want to hear about it, and they want to hear from Helen. The call never comes."

https://thecritic.co.uk/how-auntie-excludes/

It's lying by omission.

This. Absolutely.

I agree. Ignoring something you don't want to confront. It's not impartiality that's for sure.

If you don't allow dissenting voices it gives a false impression of consensus. This isn't some fringe thing, like the flat earth, or unimportant like scone/scone. We've seen how tras get all butthurt if they feel unrepresented in a discussion. Most recently, and nonsensically, Peter Tatchell at OU. But the concerns of everyone who knows that sex matters.....silenced.

I think there she a dissenting voice everytime this comes up. Ideally a woman. Too often we've seen a man and a tw (so two men) discussing women's rights. It's outrageous.

They were quick to interview the toxic Mizzy yet women who understand facts and science and have a lot to say about the erosion of women's rights /child safeguarding rarely get invited.

You would almost think that they have an agenda but that can't be the case. Can it?

It’s not a question of resources. The resources were there, for example, when the trans activist academic Grace Lavery was interviewed on Woman’s Hour after he pulled out of a public debate with Helen. It’s a question of picking up the phone.

This was especially ridiculous. Woman's Hour pretending this man is a woman, this man who'd just published a book about his cock. Though hopefully it peaked a few listeners.

An excellent piece. The BBC's pathetic response at the bottom says it all.

Their platforming of Mizzy is definitely part of a wider agenda, but it is in no way to show him in any sort of favourable light. Platforming mizzy, who by all accounts, is an anti-social nuisance as the 'voice' of a particular brand of 'youth' left many with a very sour taste.