Apologies to anyone not from the UK, but as someone who is a resident therein, I feel I have to say my piece about UK tv, or what passes for it. Following on from sealion's comments on a thread in the welcome wagon, I have to say that I concur whole-heartedly with him on this. I can't leave the tv on for more than half an hour nowadays before I hear or see something that irritates me. There seems to be no escape apparentley. If it isn't, more often then then not, some BBC female news reporter harping on, yet again, about the 'the glass ceiling' or shockingly 'women still earning less than men' I have to endure programmes on prime time such as the esteemed, Man O Man. Going back a few years now, it was presented by the insufferable Chris Tarrant and Devina McCall, and it involved something which was, in effect, a mysandric humiliation of men in front of an exclusively female audience, who were dolled up to the nines and were seemingly having a great laugh at the male contestants' expense. If the equivalent programme was broadcast featuring women being humiliated on stage in front of an exclusively male audience wearing tuxedos, drinking malt whiskey and smoking cigars, all having a grand old time, the women of this country would have had the producers of the programme castrated before the night was out.

I despair at the state of the UK's broadcast media, and I deeply resent having to pay a license fee for the privilege of having to put up with this kind of rubbish.

I'm entirely in agreement with you. In fact, I took some advice which was to never put the television on. Having two young daughters, i figured TV would be safe between 3pm & 7pm. But no, even children's programmes have to make digs & give misinformation.
Kind of sickening, really.

Thanks for the comments , citizen smith .
I can't remember if I mentioned ,or not , the latest offering from the beeb "Bring your husband to heel " . Where man - hater Annie Clayton showed wifes how to train their husbands like dogs . The husbands were lied to about what the show was about ,yet this show was officially not sexist . The BBC claimed that the marriages were improved as a result of the "training"!!!! ( A marriage can be improved by lying ?) . I have read on another site ,that at least one of the marriges had broken down , as a result of the lies in the programme . Maybe the BBC , or Annie Clayton could comment ? I doubt it somehow .
You make an excellent point , have digs against men . It's so common now , that we don't even notice it !!
Something has to be done !!

Talking of "Bring your husband to Hell"...

http://antifeminism.mathews.me.uk/ho...bandtoheel.htm

Karl, I do find myself watching progressively less and less television, I have to say. Though I'm not one to purposefully sit down and actively seek out stuff that'll annoy me, like some male equivalent of Mary Whitehouse, it's simply the risk I have to accept as I go and fix myself a sandwich whilst the gogglebox is on the kitchen. Whether we're male or female, young or old, tv output today insults our collective intelligence. I think that's probably something that we can all agree on at least. After all they don't call it programming for nothing.

sealion, you're most welcome sir! I was indeed aware of 'Bring your husband to heel', but didn't see it except for the odd excerpt. The title just said it all. I mean it's so stupid I couldn't really take the programme itself that seriously, although it is to an extent seemingly inditicative of the thinking of certain programming executives within the BBC. However, the other programme you mentioned, 'The Week Women Went', was something altogether different in my opinion. It presumed that in the total absence of the women in question, the menfolk would be utterly unable to cope. As you'll be aware, it turned out not be the moral victory the women involved in the making of this programme were eagerly anticipating, and it serves them right. I think we all as individuals wish to be valued, and not taken for granted, and in turn not take others for granted either. That's fair enough. But there is, as seems evident from the outcome of this programme, such a thing as over-valuing oneself, something that the 'women that went', might themselves wish to consider addressing in future.

Tell me about it.
I haven't been back for years but other ex-pats tell me how sad it's all become. As part of the cable package here I get BBC World, the flagship of the nation on distant shores, and it's garbage.

We've recently had a major disaster here on the island of Leyte, where a mudslide engulfed three villages. Rescue workers flocked in from all directions, Philippine Army, US Marines, Filipino & Foreign civilians. It's very dangerous work because the mud is still unstable.
The BBC's report began, 'The men and women here, yes I've just seen a woman rescue worker, .....
No opportunity missed for the Femibeeb.

A friend told me he'd just finished scanning 175 Reuters pictures of the scene. He missed the woman.

PS I used the expression "F-L-O-C-K-E-D" in from all directions . . .
and it was censored. What a hoot!

Apologies for that, Yan Yan. I made an error with my use of wildcards when censoring the obvious eff-word.

However, with gratitude to you for having pointed out what you'd wrote - i saw the error (which until now i'd missed entirely) and it's now corrected.

Thanks

No probs Karl.

Mabuhay, and may your tribe increase!

And here was I, just this day, and my stepson and daughter (baby) were watching some dodgy cartoon - about 2pm i think.
And it was allllll about this girl who wanted to join the boys hockey team (or something similar, i wasn't paying too much attention) but the boys said "Girls aren't allowed". So, in true grrrl power style, she dressed up as a boy and WON the game! YAY! At that, she whipped off her headgear and revealed her hairbow for the judges to see just how much better girls were than boys :roll:

My wife saw my face (which wasn't that bad, really) and changed the channel to avoid any comments from me. The next programme came on (Jimmy Neutron I think) and some point through it came the adverts. The first advert was for a film alllll about a girl who does soemthing to the effect of the above cartoon, in order to 'learn how men bond' (as a man squeals loudly at the sight of a spider or something) and so forth.

Talk about predictable television. Just like the radio. My wife & I were travelling somewhere and the female DJ announced a "battle of the sexes survey" - i interupted and said "Well, let's take a wild guess - women will come out on top..." at which, the DJ proudly announced women came out on top! I laughed, and the wife grunted and changed the radio station. LOL