This has been one of the stories of the week.
And I completely disagree with both the lady in point and the line taken last night on This Week (BBC1).
I tried to email This Week during the show, but their email address was not the show name @ bbc.co.uk, so it bounced. So I will post it here and talk on this one a little more.
Watching the show currently I feel you're drawing the wrong conclusion
about Ms Trimble. If you look at Paxo's comment, it is the perceived
attitude of contempt, superiority that Ms Trimble showed as well as
regular annoying hand & hair movements during answers that drove a lot
of the ire aimed her way.
Nice short to the point email, shame it wasn't there to be read whilst discussing the topic.
I've seen Ms Trimble cite in the papers that she believes the negative attention she has received is purely because she is female. So explain why my girlfriend and female flatmate have been hating her since Round 1 of the competition, whilst it was in later rounds and in particular the Semi Final that got my back up?
Well the clue is in my email, and in the question asked to Jeremy Paxman. That she is condescending, yes that is right, that was what Paxo had to rebuke that she was condescending. The "quite"'s & patronising sounding "well done"'s to her team mates are the basis of the vitriol aimed at this very intelligent woman.
Oh that and the annoying hand gestures she does whilst answering questions. Hand over throat whilst thinking, and hair flick for victory. A previously unseen look of dismay for wrong answers was only seen first in the final.
Also her team struggled in the final until the final minutes when Ms Trimble came through and rattled off question & question to produce the win, and throughout the final until the closing questions, there were no hand gestures, hair flicks, smirking or quite's. Then late on and with a comfortably lead establish, the flick was back and I was reminded how much I wanted Manchester to win.
So no sexism here, I've no problem with smart women, I have a problem with condescension.
So what are you thoughts on this one? Am I completely wide of the mark, or do you share my thinking?
Friday, February 27, 2009
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The Canadian lady on the Corpus Christi team was very clever, coming up with some very impressive answers, and yet I had absolutely no negative feelings towards her, except maybe that she was helping the smug bitch win.
I would have been equally irritated by her, even if she was male. The hand gestures, the smug "know-it-all" look and the condescending
manner in which she addressed her teammates have riled me since I first became aware of her in much earlier rounds, as you've mentioned in your post.
There have been several male contestants over the years that have annoyed me significantly, so her claim that the negative attention she's been getting stems from the fact that she's female is completely unfounded, and just her way of proving that, once again, she is a vastly superior being and has in fact decided that we are all jealous of her. Right, cause that'll ever happen.
Ok I'm through ranting now.
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