Tonight the BBC are showing a documentary about Domestic Violence. In the interests of political and emotional balance, this is what they've called it:

FreddyDeus · 2010-11-22T21:20:00+00:00

I've put in my complaint to the BBC. It might be worth others doing the same. I suppose I could have been more thoughtful, but I was pretty angry when seeing this in the schedules.

Take a look at the title and ask why one might think this biased and emotionally manipulative. Domestic violence apparently only happens to women, despite the tens of thousands of men who know different. Well done for yet another impartial and emotionally composed contribution to the debate. It is now beyond a joke that there is a debate in a supposedly intelligent and rational society regarding whether women are even capable of emotional, mental or physical abuse when evidence abounds that they most certainly are. But why let that get in the way of the good old feminist crusade: If you are thinking of following up this documentary with one entitled "Don't Hit My Dad" I will withdraw my complaint. I doubt however, that such a programme has been planned.

djwork · 2010-11-22T21:12:45+00:00

anyone notice the name of the director (Christina Nutter)? could not have picked a better named director for this project if I tried.

FreddyDeus · 2010-11-22T21:25:08+00:00

Seems she has a track record of this bullshit.

aetheralloy · 2010-11-22T21:12:17+00:00

Oh don't worry, I'm sure they will devote at least 17-27 seconds to mention that sometimes women in the extremely rare instance, perhaps only 51% of the time, are also the domestic violence abuser. Foxnews would even call that a fair and balanced perspective!

2010-11-23T09:36:15+00:00

in all fairness the bbc recently did a a series of documentary's that challenged common the perception about fathers. They also did a series following fathers who pay child support and showing how badly they were being fucked over.

The bbc does do high brow balanced stuff, but they also do bullshit that panders to the lowest common denominator. This programe is presented by some dancing show judge, which of the two do you expect it to be.

das_masterful · 2010-11-23T03:18:23+00:00

Facepalmed.

Liverotto · 2010-11-23T06:14:34+00:00

One of these days I will get myself to buy this.

AntiFeministMedia · 2010-11-23T11:50:08+00:00

Thanks for the heads up on this, it was a very poor programme, an hour long too, almost entirely focused on male-on-female DV, from the childrens perspective. Very little mention of female perpetrators.

I agree with scratend about the BBC, they do make some bad programmes, but sometimes they are really good. Scratend mentioned a couple of excellent programmes from the recent BBC fatherhood season, 'A Century of Fatherhood', and 'Who Needs Fathers'. I've got those and a few other good things from the season, and they'll be on my blog soon.

2010-11-23T14:05:56+00:00

Here is the website for making a complaint to the BBC,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/homepage/

Realistically you should only use this if you live in the UK and have a valid UK TV licence. The BBC Trust has to respond to all complaints within 30 days of the show being broadcast and is pretty good about doing so. The press also tends to follow the BBC Trust complaints and will report on any show that has generated enough.

I've just completed the process and I've mentioned the fact that this title is sexist and especially in bad taste due to Home office reports showing 40% of all domestic violence victims are men.

Title	Tonight the BBC are showing a documentary about Domestic Violence. In the interests of political and emotional balance, this is what they've called it:
Author	FreddyDeus
Upvotes	25
Comments	18
Date	November 22, 2010 9:01 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/ea52w/tonight_the_bbc_are_showing_a_documentary_about/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/tonight-the-bbc-are-showing-a-documentary-about.1045791 https://theredarchive.com/post/1045791

Comments