I just watched Britain’s Biggest Sexists on Iplayer. While there is no doubt that women still face huge amounts of sexism in contemporary britain, I couldn’t help thinking that the program was rather one sided. The whole premise was that sexism was a one-sided phenomenon: only discrimination of women by men was spoken about – that women can discriminate against men was never mentioned. The program was a catalogue of abuse against women which I felt at times slipped into victimisation. Women were always the victims, never the perpetrators; even the tiniest instance of discrimination against women was leapt upon, when what the hosts were saying could equally be interpreted as discriminatory against men, yet they would no doubt describe it as banter. There was also absolutely no reference made to any other form of discrimination – racism, homophobia etc – which are just as pervasive and repugnt as sexism, but which this program ignored, or pretended did not exist as if they were less important. I’m not saying chauvinism is not a horrendous problem which needs to be tackled, and in no way am I siding with the buffoons who say feminism is a type of bigotry; I just think such programs need a little more balance. Sexism is more nuanced and less one sided than this program made out.