So on a forum that is meant to be feminist, ie having a least a basic understanding of the power structure of the patriarchy, a woman is being blamed for having made formal complaints about a male professional she was paired with was acting inappropriately.
Fairy tale notions that if you indicate to a man he has gone to far he will just stop is, would be if it wasn't so serious, hilariously.
Not forgetting that once AA complaints went public other women came forward and said they had experienced the same. ie the BBC already knew he was a problematic participant and failed to act.
Do some of you just not grasp the power structures?
Week by week the BBC was in fact monitoring and agreeing he had gone too far, but that didn't (this is the BBC that covered up for Huw Edwards) mean they told him to start behaving inappropriately.
What is so grotesque (and all this was said earlier in the thread) is that this is a family show, meant to be early evening entertainment, and yet the BBC let egotistical males behave like throwbacks to some medieval past.
The BBC are on one level the primary culprit because they indulged a work climate that was misogynistic.
And even if AA used banter, again in the hierarchy of a male dominated work place, it does not compare to the banter of a man who is cossetted by an exploitative employer.
I dont care if she did "banter" whether to try and fit in, because she does with friends, or whatever. In an unequal work place she is not the problem.
Women being forced to behave in a manner that men think is "natural" are women working in a position of less power in a male dominated workforce.
This is the same as those who say women are asking for it because they dress up for a night out.
Only in men's head would this be "true" and it is beyond belief that apparently a bit of horse play going a bit far in a work place isn't really a problem.
Far from being a discussion coming from a feminist perspective this thread seems to have drifted into some sort of karmic justice theory, that its okay that a woman who may have breached acceptable behaviour should be punished.
This is a workplace issue.
The BBC failed to ensure a safe enviroment for those taking part in a family show.
And as they have done in other shows allowed men in one of their shows to think they were beyond criticism.
On the basis of the BBC failure I think the show should be cancelled.