I just received an email from the BBC about their fiction offerings, the contents of which are available to read here. The sex bias is typical of the BBC’s output, references to women and their names in the piece in bold:

• Two Oscar Wilde plays. Wilde was gay and he died 124 years ago, which probably explains his presence in the list.
• Two pieces by Virginia Woolf. Orlando, “A modernist masterpiece about a time-travelling nobleman who transforms into a heroine. Read by Clare Corbett.” Also Mrs Dalloway, “An adaptation of a timeless classic that follows a day in the life of an ageing socialite. Starring Vanessa Redgrave.”
• “Victorian classics” by two women. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, “Mrs Gaskell’s much-loved portrait of life in a country village and its female inhabitants. Read by Carolyn Pickles.”
• Psychological thriller, Magpie by Elizabeth Day, “A happy couple’s lives are upended when a young woman comes into their orbit. Soon they will implode.”
• Ghostly mysteries – Dark Matter by Michelle Paver, Jensen – The Bellevue Poltergeist by Heidi Amsinck, “A housekeeper falls to her death in the house where she worked. Was she pushed? Or is there something even stranger to this house?”
• A deliciously dark story – Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, “A witty thriller about jealousy, ambition, white privilege and the slipperiness of truth.”
•  Prize-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, “Following twelve extraordinary characters, exploring the impact of Britain’s involvement in the colonial history of Africa and the Caribbean”. [J4MB: As you can see from the Wiki entry on the book, all the “twelve extraordinary characters” are female, most of them black. Quelle surprise.]

So, one (long-dead) gay man in the list of writers, not so much as one heterosexual men (dead or alive) in the list of eight writers, and the focus of the books etc. almost all about women. The BBC studio commentators covering the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics consisted of two women – one, a lesbian – and a black American man.

I have finally (and very belatedly, I know) had my fill of the BBC’s anti-male and anti-white biases, and I’ve just cancelled my £15.00pcm Direct Debit. My life will be a little happier after 1 August.

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