{"id":1402,"date":"2014-05-01T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2014-05-01T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:09:20","slug":"channel-4s-the-island-is-inherently-sexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2014\/05\/01\/channel-4s-the-island-is-inherently-sexist\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4&#8217;s &#8216;The Island&#8217; is &#8216;inherently sexist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Female survival experts have\u00a0criticised Channel 4&#8217;s show <em>The Island<\/em> for only featuring male contestants. This latest\u00a0Bear Grylls&#8217; series\u00a0features 12 male\u00a0&#8216;survivors&#8217;\u00a0stranded on a\u00a0desert\u00a0island.\u00a0SAC PhD Ethnobotony student and bushcraft instructor, <a title=\"Lisa Fenton profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/current-students\/research-students\/profiles\/anthropology%20a-m\/fenton_lisa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Fenton <\/a>was quoted in The Times (Weds, 23 April):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s fantastical and ridiculous. Women are every bit as cut out for this stuff as men. It is sexism and it&#8217;s deeply rooted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Channel 4 said: &#8220;The series sets out to examine modern masculinity and how traditional skills and ideas of manhood have changed over generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/arts\/tv-radio\/article4070027.ece\">http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/arts\/tv-radio\/article4070027.ece<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female survival experts have\u00a0criticised Channel 4&#8217;s show The Island for only featuring male contestants. This latest\u00a0Bear Grylls&#8217; series\u00a0features 12 male\u00a0&#8216;survivors&#8217;\u00a0stranded on a\u00a0desert\u00a0island.\u00a0SAC PhD Ethnobotony student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2014\/05\/01\/channel-4s-the-island-is-inherently-sexist\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6599,124,70,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}