BBC Feedback on Woman's Hour Item

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For anyone who heard and / or complained to the BBC about the Woman's Hour item on misogyny...

Do have a listen to the doubling-down item on Radio 4's Feedback just now.

Scroll along to 15:52 on the playback.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_fourfm

I heard it on the first airing at the weekend I think - several forthrightly pissed off women and a mealy mouthed response, I think?

The misrepresentation of both the EA and the Supreme Court judgment
would not have been aired on any other topic

(farming or the weather say)

Gob-smacked would be an understatement. I had the boilerplate response to my initial complaint to the BBC about the mind-boggling staging of a man-pretending-to-be-woman voice talking about his experience of misogyny since "being a woman".

Notice that the feedback item was voiced only by women voice-over artists.

That was last week's programme, which aired complaints about WH choosing to interview a TIM about his experience of misogyny. Today's programme included complaints about last week's complaints, calling them transphobic.

Ah thanks.

I'm definitely in need of a tea break with a hot and very cross bun with loads of butter.

I don't usually listen to the programme but I'd like to know how often the programme gives feedback on feedback? I suspect this is an unusual case because, as was stated on both editions of the programme, the initial feedback on the episode ot Woman's Hour was universally negative. The second epidode sought to redress that. All very even-handed one might think but how often does the BBC offer sex realists the chance to respond to misreprestations and allegations of transphobia and bigotry?

Surely April Fools was yesterday?

On no other topic would the language used be allowed to be so hyperbolic and false about the law

think feedback on programmes to do with cancer - they would never allow a science denier to rant

but they do allow people to shout "most marginalised" and "supreme court did not define woman"

But I thought their gripe was that the SC did define women – just not in the way they wanted it to.

It seems they may have been manipulating listeners’ receptiveness with those melodious, genteel girls’ reading voices - that even BBC presenters themselves rarely have these days - to give the impression that all lady like women agree trans women are women when possibly some of the letters were actually written by trans women (males).

Can any one with a legal mind fact-check and correct that statement about the Supreme Court ruling, that was left as the last word, and face asking the BBC to contact a lawyer like Naomi Cunningham to explain?

In fairness to the BBC, one cannot identify a trans identified male by email. So if Mrs Trellis from Truro writes in, who is actually Bruce from Planet Bong, no-one is to know.

In any event, the beeb is well past pretending to give balance when it comes to men wanting to be women. It's all about the men and the rainbows lanyards. The women can just bugger off, like Jenny Murray did.

People getting in touch by email would need to end the message with a name, and a trans woman (male) would likely have a female name they ended with.

It may have been all too easy for the BBC to assume that that feedback, against the previous Feedback programme, was female.

Though it is also true that many “be-kind-this-is- like- being-gay” tras are female, in the context, that a trans woman (male) came to be an expert on misogyny on WH as the main fiddler so to speak, you would think this less likely.