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The creator of Fireman Sam has said he "can't see" how the children's show has a stereotype problem and puts women off joining the service. "It is for children it wasn't meant to be advertised as a recruiting post," he said. 
It comes after senior fire officer Alex Johnson told The Telegraph "most of the job is nothing like it is portrayed" in the show.
It has sparked debate on social media about whether the show is sexist.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47629489
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-47142081/women-s-minister-wants-revised-version-of-fireman-sam
It comes after senior fire officer Alex Johnson told The Telegraph "most of the job is nothing like it is portrayed" in the show.
It has sparked debate on social media about whether the show is sexist.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47629489
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-47142081/women-s-minister-wants-revised-version-of-fireman-sam
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Any comment from the Trans Community
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Of course women can do the job. It mainly consists of sitting around chatting with the odd bit of slipping down a pole and handling a large hose.
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Oh for pity's sake
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it daft attention seeking nonsense like this that belittles real feminist issues, they're eating themselves.
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Will it be Pat or Bob who they target next?
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Pat wasn't a fireman so he done nothing.
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Seem to remember watching an episode where Sam went out on a "shout" and Samantha took the opportunity to practice her pole dancing routine on the station pole.
I remember thinking at the time - this is a very diverse and progressive episode - but in all fairness, thinking about it now it might not have been Fireman Sam.  |
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Was it London's Burning?
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Station pole was called Stanislaw iirc
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Was there a coloured chap with a big hose?
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Yep - it was pump action
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Im surprised he hasnt had to change it to Firefighter Sam
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scandy nails it. Makes a mockery of genuine mysogyny and abuse like FGM...
The fact is fewer women than men want to spend their lives cutting people (sometimes dead) out of cars. Fires are rare. Road accidents less so. |
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pink hat brigade being attention seeking again i see.They really are a shower of excretion.
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It is a job for men...it always will be...what is wrong with that??????
I am sure women can apply if they want...if they are able to meet the physical reuqirements |
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Men have to apologise for being men now
We listen too much to women, we really do |
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Never explain, never apologise.
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seems plenty of women are applying to the service
https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/news/2018-news/record-numbers-of-women-apply-to-be-firefighters/ |
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The Grenfell effect?
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do not listen enough to women,thats the problem with you men |
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if they cant carry a decent weight on their shoulders over a decent distance they should refused entry
i bet half of them are afraid of heights |
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I'm afraid of depths.
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but because your a man you still go down
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exactly
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any week of the month
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Women carry dead weights around everyday
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nellie1970
20 Mar 19 18:14 Joined: 05 Mar 07 | Topic/replies: 7,472 | Blogger: nellie1970's blog UBLE/REGY do not listen enough to women,thats the problem with you men you are probably right NellieI preferred society as it was in the past.. We had MEN things......we had WOMEN things and a DEMARCATION line down the middle.. Still we live in a democracy so I suppose things are the way men and women want them now I preferred the past, myself I a terrible MISCOGYNYST I know, so apologies to women posters on here, you seem ok to me  |
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There have always been some crossovers.
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Basket weaving.
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the feminist brigade who think they speak for all women are sadly mistaken.They are certainly not helping in way shape or form
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"I a terrible MISCOGYNYST I know"
And speller. |
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I'm a miscellaneous ogynyst.
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misogynist
I agree just checking, I usually leave things like that to my spell checker, the capitals must have thrown itnellie1970 20 Mar 19 19:50 Joined: 05 Mar 07 | Topic/replies: 7,478 | Blogger: nellie1970's blog the feminist brigade who think they speak for all women are sadly mistaken.They are certainly not helping in way shape or form that is very honest nellie They have an agenda, it is not hard to see what it is, hopefully we will all eventually see this. Still the world of men and women has never been that easy, there are casulties on both sides |
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"Women are just as capable as men at firefighting"
Are they? What about e.g. carrying an unconscious 15 stone man from a burning building, or lifting a beam, or chopping a door down quickly? |
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Being able to piss standing up would be a start.
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You've never been up a side street beside a kebab ship in newcastle at 1am.
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