Female survival experts have criticised Channel 4’s show The Island for only featuring male contestants. This latest Bear Grylls’ series features 12 male ‘survivors’ stranded on a desert island. SAC PhD Ethnobotony student and bushcraft instructor, Lisa Fenton was quoted in The Times (Weds, 23 April):
“It’s fantastical and ridiculous. Women are every bit as cut out for this stuff as men. It is sexism and it’s deeply rooted.”
A spokesman for Channel 4 said: “The series sets out to examine modern masculinity and how traditional skills and ideas of manhood have changed over generations.”
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/tv-radio/article4070027.ece