Our thanks to Mike P for this priceless piece. Being a piece from the BBC, some feminist propaganda was inevitable:
Paxman himself addressed the issue earlier this year, writing in the Financial Times that “since we know that intelligence is not determined by gender, it must be a question of taste.”
Justice for Men & Boys 
Perhaps the reason for the all male team was that members were selected solely on merit rather than any other criteria and the best performers happened to be men. Just a thought.
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Well, that’s just crazy talk!
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I’m sure it does part of the merit being they want to be in competitions! And anyway surely its a triumph for equality that a formerly sexist college chooses its team from its students without much regard for their genitalia.
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I’m inclined to agree with Jeremy that it mainly simply reflects males’ greater participation in “quizzes” and interest in competing. On the similar theme of all female colleges, this time accepting men who’ve decided they’re women. I find myself applauding Ms. Greer for stating the bleeding obvious. “If they (Murray Edwards College) really don’t believe that gender is binary, then they really shouldn’t be a single sex college.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-41498173
The sudden enthusiasm for all things “trans” is the feminists assertions of sameness coming to bite them on the bum. One is tempted to simply watch them scrap.
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Looks like they are playing to win.
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Well, what’s sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose….
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Alumnae include Theresa May and Barbara Castle? Hmmm. Were I responsible for marketing at St Hugh’s (St Hugh’s for a women’s college?) I’d keep quiet about those two.
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Actually studies by Richard Lynn have found that men have more so-called ‘general knowledge’ than women. No reason to think that will not apply to students either.
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I bet the hypocritical BBC are OK with Newnham College Cambridge refusing to allow male students though.
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