Too ugly for TV? No, I'm too brainy for men who fear clever women

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-04-24T09:58:09+00:00

The guy was wrong to insult her appearance. She is wrong to imply this has anything to do with gender.

seego79 · 2012-04-24T11:07:56+00:00

guys like him genuinely make me want to rip my hair out, he is everything that is wrong in the world. it is about gender but its also about him being a scared repressed buffoon.

men like him are the reason most normal men are labelled mysoginists.

her progr5amme is amazing and her appearance neither adds to or detracts from its quality, that is the way factual programming should be.

i hate this idea that people on tv should all be glamerous and handsome, its just bs.

DruchiiConversion · 2012-04-24T13:37:38+00:00

Most redditors, being non-UK, will not grasp the context here.

The BBC (to whom she is employed) has recently enacted a behind-the-scenes policy wherein talented older women employed as presenters are seeming to be systematically removed from their jobs and replaced with younger, more attractive presenters. This is not to do with their abilities, this is a fairly blanket agenda. There's no proof that it's true, but there's certainly a trend.

The reason, then, that this woman is choosing to interpret these remarks as gendered is because the policy at her employer is seeming very much to be treating female attractiveness as a very significant asset by comparison with male attractiveness. Calling someone like Eamon Holmes (another presenter of assorted TV stuff) unattractive - countless have - is thus just an attack on the man, not an attack on his career. He somehow continues to find jobs despite having neither attractiveness or charisma.

In this very specific context she's doing the right thing by hitting back at the guy. In fact, it seems pretty clear to me from the piece that she's finding it a difficult piece to write, because she doesn't really believe it - she's just covering her ass. Her 'threats' come across with a childish stupidity, but also with a droll boredom that belies her cause.

TL;DR: Don't take this at face value, this is political posturing within the BBC. Not misandry.

Amytherocklobster · 2012-04-24T16:30:44+00:00

Her picture didn't load on my phone.. I read the article and thought the guy was a jerk. Then I googled a picture of her and.. Well.. She is genetically unlucky.

seego79 · 2012-04-24T18:40:47+00:00

i don't care if she is ugly, the woman knows her stuff and entertains as she informs...how she looks doesn't matter a jot.

Title	Too ugly for TV? No, I'm too brainy for men who fear clever women
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Date	April 24, 2012 8:23 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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