Seen in journalism explains this new thing where the BBC puts men pretending to be women in the center of stories that aren’t specific to women or trans-everything.
And the Beeb, rather shockingly, takes them up on it.
So that explains “Emma” Harris who can’t buy a house in the Midlands despite a nice salary, the one with the nice photo and lots to say, that the BBC never identified as a man or even as trans. “Emma” was just “Emma” and the BBC went on its way rejoicing.
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Trying to normalize the fetishists. Improving their photshop skills should be part of package.
Emma seems weirdly familiar, I suspect Emma has shown up in other news stories as well.
Don’t forget those 400+ trans BBC employees. 4 times higher than than their proportion in the population at large, per the Daily Mail. (And that was reported SIX YEARS AGO. Wonder what the proportion is now?)
Man on the Street parody
— Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Steve Allen
400 is only 4 times higher than their proportion in the population at large? That sounds extremely low, unless the BBC employs millions of people.
Heh. Thanks Dave.
From what I have been able to find out from various statistics and news sites, the BBC employs around twenty-two-and-a-half thousand people. The prevalence of people claiming to be ‘trans’ is about half of one percent. If the BBC workforce were representative, they would employ around 112 such misguided and delusional people. So 400 actually is around four times the prevalence.
I stand corrected! Not for the first time.
One of the things I best love about you, Ophelia, is that you are happy to be corrected when you are mistaken. It shows integrity, and a desire to learn. I agree, that very small percentages of large numbers can be very difficult to visualise without doing the mathematics. I felt exactly the same about the likelihood, so – since I love algebra – I did the calculations.