Gotta laugh at the do-gooding worriers of the BBC.
Honouring ‘International Women’s Day’ we get this from the BBC:
Dolly + Beyonce + Miley = Girl Power!
- First broadcast:
- Friday 07 March 2014
Fearne creates a Girl Power Playlist in honour of International Women’s Day, including tracks from the likes of Beyonce, Miley, Adele and even some Dolly Parton!!!
And there was this:
Girl Power: Going for Gold
I imagine Google could keep on churning out the links for quite some time…however it’s all got to stop…you know…all this ‘Girl’ nonsense….so derogative and insulting…belittles and demeans wimmin:
BBC in censorship row after the word ‘girl’ is cut from documentary
The BBC has been caught up in another censorship row after the broadcaster cut the word “girl” from a programme about the Commonwealth Games over fears it could cause offence.
Mark Beaumont, the presenter, was being filmed grappling with a judo champion, and after he was sent crashing to the floor he said: “I am not sure I can live that down – being beaten by a 19-year-old girl.”
When the half-hour episode of The Queen’s Baton Relay was originally aired in April on the BBC News channel, the 31-year-old’s remark was broadcast in full.
However, the word “girl” was edited out of a repeat of the programme, leading the Corporation facing claims it had been overly politically correct and sanctimonious.
A BBC spokeswoman said the unedited version of the documentary was broadcast soon after being filmed because the baton’s tour was treated as a news event.
She added: “They had more time to edit it the second time. Mark didn’t mean to cause offence. But the word ‘girl’ was taken out just in case it did.”
Surely then the whole piece should have been expunged from the record…why should he feel that he couldn’t live it down…being beaten by a girl? Surely we are all equal now and the BBC should recognise that girls…women…are just as capable on the mat as men…boys…no…men.
The broadcasting of his comment “I am not sure I can live that down – being beaten by a 19-year-old girl”, even without the ‘girl’, just perpetuates the sexist stereotypical attitudes that prevail in sport and society as a whole that women are worth less than men and aren’t as capable.
The BBC’s attitude is trivial and demeaning, whether or not women are called girls or babe is a superficial matter when the greater issue is that a man feels he should always beat a female. The BBC obviously has no issue with that stereotype and take it for granted that a man should be embarrassed to be beaten by a female.
Appalling sexism by the BBC.
“A BBC spokeswoman said the unedited version of the documentary was broadcast soon after being filmed because the baton’s tour was treated as a news event. She added: “They had more time to edit it the second time. Mark didn’t mean to cause offence. But the word ‘girl’ was taken out just in case it did.”
More time to edit the second time, but not enough time to edit ‘A bBC spokeswoman’ to a named individual that can be held to account. Just like so many non-identifiable by-lines.
If only we could all work in such a taxpayer-funded, responsibility-free, working environment.
I continue to be amazed how even the rest of the media play along with this ‘BBC spokesperson’ trick.
It’s disingenuous but clever.
The denial gets out there but cannot be challenged. It stops at a wall of anonymity.
Even the seniority of the person is lost, beyond the fact that the actual talent, editors, producers etc, responsible immediately get a degree of separation from what is often their very irresponsible, totally accountable words or deeds.
And it does extend to the top. Lord Tone seems entirely like his W1A ‘her indoors’ absent character. He only seems to issue broadcast-only speeches. The rest of the time it’s ‘a spokesperson for the DG says..’.
The one time these market rate puppets are on the wrong end of answering questions are Parliamentary inquiries, and given the result is they get elevated to the ‘sack of rats’ club as a consequence, one can see why they protect the BBC’s PR budget above all.
“not enough time to edit ‘A bBC spokeswoman’ to a named individual that can be held to account.”
Says one of the many Biased BBC holier-than-thou hypocrites who cowers behind one or more pseudonyms each. Still, “Do as we say, not as we do” is one of Biased BBC’s mottos (along with “who gives a shit about the truth as long as the fiction reinforces our prejudices” and “if in doubt say ‘lalalala Muslims’, that’ll enable us to be as stupid and offensive as we like”).
Since Fatuous Delusions over at the Telegraph boards has been using her as an avatar, and you really don’t want to add her to the existing troll population over here, could we get rid of Rosie The Riveter please ?
Womans Hour today has gone all girly on us with its whole programme being devoted to “weddings”.
All women(dare I presume that they all were?) are asked about their plans with their “partners”…so if they were husbands or fiances, I would never know.
These words are likely to be excised from the language if we don`t reclaim them.
Anyhoo-Jane Garvey wonders that if we gave civil rights to heterosexual couples for their desired partnerships…than might this not “undermine the sanctity of marriage”?
Ah bless-Jane and the BBC have cared about nothing else these last thirty years then?
Also-were straight people able to get a civil partnership like the gays can-might this not upset the fuddy duddies in the conservative party and the church?
Good old Jane-like the rest of the BBC, she suddenly worries about us…no, it`ll be sincere!…
Wankers-double minded ouanquerres(female tense applies)
How can Alan read a few simple sentences and yet completley misunderstand/mangle something?!?
You’ve gotten really, really confused here. Still, raised a smile.
Ahh…a Critic…with the usual nonsensical drive-by drivel….one thing not confused about is that you are are old friend ‘Hendy’….any reason you pretend to be so many people?
Ok, I’ll explain it for you Al. Despite your attempt to prevent me replying.
You say: ‘The broadcasting of his comment “I am not sure I can live that down – being beaten by a 19-year-old girl”, even without the ‘girl’, just perpetuates the sexist stereotypical attitudes that prevail in sport and society as a whole that women are worth less than men and aren’t as capable.’
Pray tell, if the word ‘girl’ was removed, how does saying ‘“I am not sure I can live that down – being beaten by a 19-year-old ” perpetuate a ‘sexist stereotypical attitude’, given that there is no mention of sex, or gender, or girl or boy?
You say:
‘the greater issue is that a man feels he should always beat a female. The BBC obviously has no issue with that stereotype’.
Eh, the word ‘girl’ was removed. Worth repeating. And it would appear to have been removed for the very reason you cite.
I believe criticism can imporve youn as a write Al. Putting aside the BBC, Biased BBC, sport, sexism etc…..have you not made a very basic misunderstanding?
(The word ‘girl’ was removed Alan).
“BBC Eliminates Horribly Offensive Four-Letter Word from Broadcast”
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/05/27/bbc-eliminates-horribly-offensive-four-letter-word-from-broadcast/?singlepage=true