[Note added 16.10.15: The excerpts referred to in this blog post have been captured in a video posted on our YouTube channel, here.]
Earlier this evening I watched the first episode of a new BBC series, Earth’s Wildest Waters: The Big Fish, which will be available on iPlayer for 29 days. We’ll extract a few minutes from the programme for our YouTube channel shortly.
There will be six episodes in the series, in which eight anglers compete to win the ultimate prize, whatever that is. They travel to a different country each week, the next episode will be in Cuba, where BBC executives presumably feel very much at home.
In my younger days I was a keen angler – coarse fishing, fly fishing, and a little sea fishing. At least 99% of anglers then – as now, from what I can see – were men or boys. Statistically, no more than 1% of the eight anglers in the programme – i.e. not one of them – should have been women. It will hopefully not come as a great shock to you, to learn that two of the eight anglers – 25% – were women. A 25-fold preferencing for women right from the outset of the ‘competition’.
The local angling expert in the first episode, in Iceland, was – hold onto your hats, folks! – a woman. I wondered how the programme’s producers would preference the females by making the scoring subjective – in common with GCSEs v O Levels, since 1987 – and didn’t have to wait long for the answer. At 4:10 Ben Fogle informs us:
Because there is a lot of luck involved in fishing, we’re going to be taking into account location, technique, types of bait used.
I’ve never heard of such a subjective ‘system’ being used in any angling competition, anywhere in the world… er… ever. Other that, I have no rational objections to it. If I did, that would obviously be both sexist and misogynistic.
Some comedy gold – rare on the BBC for several decades, as we might infer from regular repeats of Dad’s Army and The Two Ronnies – happens between 17:52 – 19:15. One of the women’s rods curves suddenly, and she utters the immortal lines (to any experienced fisherman, anyway):
I think I have a fish on the line…
It’s not moving how you’d expect a fish to move.
She courageously battles with the denizen of the deep for 45 minutes before singing plaintively, ‘I don’t know what to do…’. Dan comes to her assistance, at the cost of his own fishing time and prospects of progressing in the competition. She says to Dan:
Will you give me a hand? Will you have a go at this, and see whether you think it’s a fish, or the bottom?
Dan says cheerily, ‘Of course I will!’, and takes only seconds before informing the daft trout she’s caught the bottom of the lake. She laughs.
The final section, in which one of the eight anglers is sent home – something which will happen every week – starts at 53:34. Three anglers are selected as the group from which one will be sent packing. One is a women, two are men. You’ll never guess whether it’s the woman or one of the men who is selected.
I couldn’t claim to have been a very proficient angler, but I was struck on numerous occasions in this programme at the lack of competence of some of the male anglers. The fly casting techniques of most of them, for example, were woeful. I’d wager any of the six could have been replaced by tens of thousands of more competent male British anglers, proficient in many forms of angling. The conclusion is inescapable. The producers actively selected poor male anglers, so as to make the female anglers look competent, in comparison.
It’s a sad day when BBC feminist propaganda extends even to overwhelmingly male-dominated spheres such as angling. Is there nothing these vile harpies won’t poison with their toxic ideology?
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The “Ministry Of Truth” (BBC) strikes again eh?
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Not usually one to defend the BBC and I didn’t see the programme, but was perhaps the basis of it was to choose anglers with at least some deficiencies in order to ensure mistakes were made and so everything was a challenge?
Say they used two top quality angers, the rest are going to be hugely embarrassed by them and it’s going to be quite boring knowing that only one of those two is going to win.
I note the programme description describes the anglers as “passionate” which may be a hint they could all be lacking in ability.
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Maybe the BBC could have chosen eight expert anglers, regardless of gender? Would anyone watch a programme on eight ‘sprinters’ if two were clinically obese, two had broken legs, two were very old and barely able to walk (let along run), and one had only one leg? If so, sign me up!
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Is it a coincidence that the winner of Special Forces Ultimate Hell Week was a woman? I had a feeling it would turn out that way because it was the BBC and lo and behold…
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Haha no coincidence! In the BBC feminist fantasy world, women will always triumph over men… even if the men need to be nobbled somehow, to make that happen – which is invariably the case.
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I wonder what’s more common – capable female special forces recruits or female angling champions?
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Mrs Gruff has just returned from a conference where eight women could not work out how to press the single button on the laser pointer. A man from the back of the hall showed them in a second.
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feminists / women will not change on their own.Not even after criticism. They will only change when they have to. And for that to happen,men will have to start demanding same rules for them,same requirements and same results. As long as even one exception is being made to make life easier for them for being women,we will never see the end of this madness.
But it is not women we are waiting for to change here…. It is men.
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Sanity2014 is quite correct, this tide of special snowflake privilege will only be turned when man change – not the change to utter subservience that the feminists demand, but a change in which they see the light, say no more and draw the line of true equality for both sexes. As an anti-feminist, our target is male feminist-enablers, not feminists themselves.
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discovery has a programme called sports science that i stopped watching after they had a famous female boxing champion on and ‘proved’ she could hit harder than a man, it was woeful, all the tricks had had to resort to, including have a very undersized male journeyman boxer who was obviously kept in the dark about what they were measuring in one to the set ups, and a quite few other underhanded tricks to even make the female champion even comptetive. Why not just ‘discover’ and show the truth, why the constant propaganda?
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In the recent 2014/15 Volvo ocean race for the first time in 10 years there was an all female crew competing against all male crews. I was reading about it in the RYA magazine when I came across this; ‘in order to make it fair the female team will be allowed 11 sailors whereas the men’s teams will only have 8.’ What disappointed me was that none of the men’s teams objected to this.
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