Sexism on Question Time

[vandamme]

An all female audience on QT, no all male? No all white? etc....Of course not!

BBC accused of political correctness over all-women version of Question Time

The BBC Championing equality!!!

[Teddy Bear]

Hi Van - good to see you - been a while.
The author of this particular piece - one TV editor, is clearly not up to any kind of more informed opinion. He or She is just 'reporting' what comes in, as evidenced by this passage
But the all-women audience goes against Question Time's usual process of selecting an audience to ensure a wide cross-section of British society.

As anybody knows, the BBC audience selection process ensures the majority viewpoint will be the one that best represents the view that the BBC want to promulgate. One only has to look at the panel selection any given week to realise that.

For a more informed opinion of this event here's Iain Dale

Question Time's All Women Audience is a Gimmick
Iain Dale 3:04 PM

David Dimbleby announced last night that on March 11th, Question Time will have an all female audience to mark International Women's Day. For some reason they have decided that they won't go the whole hog and have an all women panel too.

This creates an unfortunate precedent. Do they intend to have an all black audience, an all disabled one, an all gay one ... or even, heaven forfend, an all male one.

Question Time is a programme which has traditionally allowed any member of the public to apply for tickets. The idea of an all women's audience is nothing but a pathetic gimmick designed by the producers to show their bosses at the BBC that they are being "innovative". In the same way that inviting Emma Jones being a panelist was "innovative". And that didn't work very well, either.

[vandamme]

I wonder what would happen if a male applied and was rejected, could this man then make an official complaint of sexism through various bodies?

Any volunteers?