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Re: are panel games sexist?

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Dean BedfordJun 20, 2009
 

 
On Monday, June 15, 2009, at 10:41 PM, linda wrote:

>
>
> i was reading the raido times article that caused all this debate on
> sexism in pannell games and i have to say the quote given by victoria
> wood was'nt really as negative as the comments in other newspapers
> might lead you to belive .
>
> most of the article was victoria wood saying how much she enjoyed doing
> clue but this is the what the papers picked up on , and i quote
> " the relative paucity of women on isihac(sandi toksvig and the late
> linda smith are exception to the predominatly male line up ) is , wood
> feels , part of the nature of the beast. a lot of pannel games are male
> dominated because they rely on men topping each other, which is not
> generally a female thing "
>
> actually just for the record there is actually 2 more exceptions . in
> earlier seasons there were denise coffee and jo kendall.
>
> that to me anyway the above does'nt come across as a huge broadside on
> sexism in panell games .

Thanks for that, I agee it's not a broadside but it is in the context of
Clue, which is possibly the least competitive of the various panel
games. Despite the "points win prizes" thing!

 
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