Black History Month

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

You may be right. But have you actually listened to radio 4 or 4 extra? Despite our rich literary history, fir example, practically every other story, play, drama or documentary seems to focus US culture. (The other half seems to me to be women having a chat about women). Maybe it's cheaper that way, maybe it just saves them having to talk about problems in the uk. I dunno.

I listen to it every day, I honestly cannot recall this focus on US culture at all. It defo has a stronger feminist edge but not US culture.

 

[Littlesue]

I am sure the broad church that comprises GOT will respect this occasion and discuss it thoughtfully and maturely.

Amen.

Lol that went well, I just read the whole thread , some scary intimidating men on here

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Lol that went well, I just read the whole thread , some scary intimidating men on here

They all listen to Radio 4. That's the significant common denominator.

 

[chrismpw]

I listen to it every day, I honestly cannot recall this focus on US culture at all. It defo has a stronger feminist edge but not US culture.

Maybe not focus. But if I had a pound for every time I heard an actor with a southern Yankee drawl reciting a story set in the US I'd have a fair pension pot. In comparison - hardly ever any stories from other English speaking countries like Australia, Canada or New Zealand. Blinkers in the programming team? Laziness? I mean - the bbc always go on about balance, but they then do this kind of thing and also obsess about the rs in the sports section for instance so I think the idea about balance is often just that ... an idea.

 

[Prevenger17]

Maybe not focus. But if I had a pound for every time I heard an actor with a southern Yankee drawl reciting a story set in the US I'd have a fair pension pot. In comparison - hardly ever any stories from other English speaking countries like Australia, Canada or New Zealand. Blinkers in the programming team? Laziness? I mean - the bbc always go on about balance, but they then do this kind of thing and also obsess about the rs in the sports section for instance so I think the idea about balance is often just that ... an idea.

Do you ever think you get bothered too much about trivial, irrelevant things?

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Context:

The difference there was that I was dealing with an obvious wum who almost entirely swings into threads solely to throw an insult. I illustrated it with a number of screenshots of your cobtributions that you have chosen not to quote here for some reason. Nor have you quoted comments from other users that agreed with my assertions.

I hope it made you think and become a better person In the month you spent away from the forum.

Mate, you’re the person who swings into threads to say how awful women are and nothing else. This is the black history month and you’ve turned this into yet another misogynist rant. Give your head a wobble.

 

[Jimishorts]

Do you ever think you get bothered too much about trivial, irrelevant things?

 

[chrismpw]

Mate, you’re the person who swings into threads to say how awful women are and nothing else. This is the black history month and you’ve turned this into yet another misogynist rant. Give your head a wobble.

Yet again with the unfounded accusations and wumming. You clearly have not read the rest of this thread but are just dropping in in a juvenile attempt to wind people up.

You are either dim beyond average (which I doubt) or are deliberately misreading my complaints about broadcasting as misogyny - which appears to be tour favourite word if the month. Are you perhaps trying to imply that you're the least misogenistic person on the planet to impress somebody?

Please quote where I have said women are awful?

 

[chrismpw]

Do you ever think you get bothered too much about trivial, irrelevant things?

It's not trivial if you see it as subtle social engineering of opinions, which is what I see. And once your ears and eyes are tuned to it you see it everywhere on the beeb.

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Yet again with the unfounded accusations and wumming. You clearly have not read the rest of this thread but are just dropping in in a juvenile attempt to wind people up.

You are either dim beyond average (which I doubt) or are deliberately misreading my complaints about broadcasting as misogyny - which appears to be tour favourite word if the month. Are you perhaps trying to imply that you're the least misogenistic person on the planet to impress somebody?

Please quote where I have said women are awful?

Lol anything you disagree with is either wumming or trolling.

 

[Littlesue]

Yet again with the unfounded accusations and wumming. You clearly have not read the rest of this thread but are just dropping in in a juvenile attempt to wind people up.

You are either dim beyond average (which I doubt) or are deliberately misreading my complaints about broadcasting as misogyny - which appears to be tour favourite word if the month. Are you perhaps trying to imply that you're the least misogenistic person on the planet to impress somebody?

Please quote where I have said women are awful?

Don't Let them get you down, As a woman I never see you as a woman hater, I find the stuff in the fit birds thread a lot more sexist and misogynist than what you ever say x

 

[Prevenger17]

It's not trivial if you see it as subtle social engineering of opinions, which is what I see.

I think the fact that you see it this way is probably why you're so angry all the time. Media and public opinion are a symbiotic relationship. Yes, media absolutely influence the way people think or behave but, likewise, public opinion and societal shifts in attitude influence the way the media operates, what it reports on and how it reports it etc. It's a constant, ongoing conversation and resetting of norms that has been going on for centuries. That's how change happens, why each decade looks so different from the last, why some things from 10,20, 50, 100 years ago seem so strange to us now.

And if you insist that this is just 100% social engineering by some shadowy media executives, then just choose not to be engineered. It's easy. Basically do what you do now, except try not to be so angry and reactive to every media piece about female empowerment and get on with your life. I'm not saying this with a goal to argue against your position, it's just as a general bit of advice that might make your day-to-day less filled with these small, angry reactions to stuff you have no control over. I mean, it can't feel good thinking about this stuff all the time if it makes you so mad

 

[Hatters not haters]

It's not trivial if you see it as subtle social engineering of opinions, which is what I see. And once your ears and eyes are tuned to it you see it everywhere on the beeb.

I think you’ve spoke with elegance and honesty in this thread. Even if I disagree with you massively which I do you have been forthright and honest. Do you have a girlfriend pal?

 

[chrismpw]

I think the fact that you see it this way is probably why you're so angry all the time. Media and public opinion are a symbiotic relationship. Yes, media absolutely influence the way people think or behave but, likewise, public opinion and societal shifts in attitude influence the way the media operates, what it reports on and how it reports it etc. It's a constant, ongoing conversation and resetting of norms that has been going on for centuries. That's how change happens, why each decade looks so different from the last, why some things from 10,20, 50, 100 years ago seem so strange to us now.

And if you insist that this is just 100% social engineering by some shadowy media executives, then just choose not to be engineered. It's easy. Basically do what you do now, except try not to be so angry and reactive to every media piece about female empowerment and get on with your life. I'm not saying this with a goal to argue against your position, it's just as a general bit of advice that might make your day-to-day less filled with these small, angry reactions to stuff you have no control over. I mean, it can't feel good thinking about this stuff all the time if it makes you so mad

Honestly I'm not as mad about it as you seem to think. It's an irritation, nothing more, and I seek to highlight it and hope others might see it too for what it is.

Genuinely there's very little that makes me angry, outside of what politicians try to get away with - and even then its little more than a tutt and roll of the eyes. It's very difficult really to gauge the true strength of people's reactions through text I guess.