for we know we need each other so

[jossish]

Dear Mr Paxman, I don't really have an awful lot of respect for you now. What a sad, blinkered, privileged, objectively incorrect worldview.

Comments

[cabbagemedley.livejournal.com]

Oh what fuckwittery.

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

Poor thing, he's obviously had such a raw deal, what with some women having jobs in his industry.

[meedja.livejournal.com]

Oh, he can be an enormous prick sometimes, can't he?

[biascut.livejournal.com]

OH GOD, MEN.

Let's see some men in the same industry stand up and say that that's bollocks. Oh wait, they won't! Because it's not their problem, is it?

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

He's a grumpy old man in an industry with an increasing (but still minority) fraction of women in important positions. Its' quite common for such people to perceive the shift in relation to "status quo", rather than in an absolute sense.

And didn't John Humphreys or someone say something similar a couple of years ago?

Not that this excuses the incorrectness, though, of course.

[zyrya]

I read this:
He also claimed the discovery of deceptions across the industry....

as this:
He also claimed the discovery of Decepticons across the industry....

He's right about Robert Burns, though.